Rejoice!
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When I was in my heydays of teaching flute I used to have fun by taking classical pieces and "popifying" them by making backing tracks and adding bass and drums...
My pupils used to love it...!
This is my pop-style arrangement of Handel's "La Réjouissance" from his "Music for the Royal Fireworks".
The original suite by Handel is in five movements:
Ouverture
Bourrée (A quick French dance in double time)
La Paix: Largo alla siciliana (in the manner of a Sicilian dance)
La Réjouissance: Allegro
Menuet I
Menuet II
The music is celebratory and full of rhythm, with a lighthearted nature and playful and catchy melodies.
My pupils used to love it...!
This is my pop-style arrangement of Handel's "La Réjouissance" from his "Music for the Royal Fireworks".
Listen to the original "La Réjouissance"
by Handel:
by Handel:
Bourrée (A quick French dance in double time)
La Paix: Largo alla siciliana (in the manner of a Sicilian dance)
La Réjouissance: Allegro
Menuet I
Menuet II
The music is celebratory and full of rhythm, with a lighthearted nature and playful and catchy melodies.
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Fresh ideas in flute music
Music for the Royal Fireworks
It was written in 1749 for King George II to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession.
A pavilion, over four hundred feet long, was built especially for the event in Green Park in London, and the music was to be the accompaniment for a huge fireworks display.
Over 12,000 people attended. All was set for a great night.
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
OH, DEAR...! The whole night turned into a disaster !
• The weather was rainy causing many firework misfires,
• In the middle of the show the pavilion caught fire ....
It was written in 1749 for King George II to celebrate the end of the War of the Austrian Succession.
A pavilion, over four hundred feet long, was built especially for the event in Green Park in London, and the music was to be the accompaniment for a huge fireworks display.
Over 12,000 people attended. All was set for a great night. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
OH, DEAR...! The whole night turned into a disaster !
• The weather was rainy causing many firework misfires,
• In the middle of the show the pavilion caught fire ....
Handel with a ZING!
Listen :
.... • A woman's clothes were set on fire by a stray rocket,
• Other fireworks burned two soldiers and blinded a third,
• Yet another soldier had his hand blown off during an earlier rehearsal when a firework hit the pavilion....
... and the 12,000 crowd brought the city of London to a standstill.
Not a great night!
• Other fireworks burned two soldiers and blinded a third,
• Yet another soldier had his hand blown off during an earlier rehearsal when a firework hit the pavilion....
... and the 12,000 crowd brought the city of London to a standstill.
Not a great night!
To download the flute and piano score,
or
2 flutes and piano (or backing track).
Score and flute parts in one download:
$5 (£4.49)
7 pages.
