FANTASIA ON THE HEXACHORD - Parts & Score, LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC
Availability Available Published 4th April 2012
Cat No.JM51859 Price
£17.95 Composer: Alfonso Ferrabosco II Arranger: Elgar Howarth Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC
The English keyboard fantasia reached its peak of popularity in the late 16th and early 17th century. The music was normally based on a short musical extract that was embellished and developed. Often the music formed variations on the hexachord (a series of six notes which ascend step by step) in a polyphonic manner with a free and improvisatory nature. Ensemble fantasias gradually diminished in popularity up to around 1700, but their keyboard counterparts retained their importance. Arranger Elgar Howarth idiomatically transfers the original to the brilliant sonorities of modern brass instruments.
