Includes a few optional double reed inspired words. Offstage quartet answers with the echo. Onstage and offstage second oboe parts can be played by oboe d’amore. For: Onstage 2Ob, EH, Bn, optional CBn; and Offstage 2Ob, EH, Bn.
Historic march from Louis XIV’s double reed band. Can be performed without contra with a bassoon playing the contra part one octave lower wherever possible, or a bassoon can be added to the contra part playing at the notated octave. For: 2Ob, EH, Bn, CBn. The parts can be doubled.
Reflective, dignified music written for the 1695 funeral of Queen Mary found in John Bannister’s ‘The Sprightly Companion’. Can be performed without contra with a bassoon playing the contra part one octave lower, or a bassoon can be added to the contra part playing at the notated octave. For 2 Ob, EH, Bn, CBn
Cheerful settings of ‘Lazy Mary Will You Get Up?’, ‘Polly Put the Kettle On’, ‘This Old Man’, ‘London Bridge’ ‘Hickory, Dickory Dock’ and ‘Row, Row, Row Your Boat’. Ideal for school & senior concerts. The second oboe part can be played by an oboe d’amore. For 2Ob, EH, Bn. Also for woodwind quartet [0511] but instrumental parts are not interchangeable.