Cool, Cool Calypso
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This is a short piece in Calypso Style. Forget about the COLD weather! Forget about the WINTRY SHOWERS!
Let's go to a warm sunny sandy beach and chill out with this laid-back flute tune.
The music is happy, with lots of syncopation (off-beat rhythms) to keep you feeling like dancing along to the infectious character of the piece.
Think: grass skirts, steel pans, flower garlands in people's hair, and brightly coloured holiday shirts.....
Let's go to a warm sunny sandy beach and chill out with this laid-back flute tune.
The music is happy, with lots of syncopation (off-beat rhythms) to keep you feeling like dancing along to the infectious character of the piece.
Think: grass skirts, steel pans, flower garlands in people's hair, and brightly coloured holiday shirts.....
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Calypso is a style of Caribbean music that originated in Trinidad and Tobago during the early to the mid-19th century
and spread to the rest of the Caribbean Antilles by the mid-20th century.
Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.
During the carnival season before Lent, groups of slaves led by popular singers, or shatwell, wandered through the streets singing and
improvising veiled lyrics directed toward unpopular political figures.
Its rhythms can be traced back to West African Kaiso and the arrival of French planters and their slaves from the French Antilles in the 18th century.
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The Calypso style originated in the Caribbean.
The French brought Carnival to Trinidad, and calypso competitions at Carnival grew in popularity, especially after the abolition of slavery in 1834.
The French brought Carnival to Trinidad, and calypso competitions at Carnival grew in popularity, especially after the abolition of slavery in 1834.
To download the flute and piano score,
or
Flute and piano (or backing track).
Score and flute part in one download:
$5 (£4.49)
6 pages.
