"Easy" ensemble playing
Volume 6 of this practical series contains four pieces arranged for variable four-part instrumental ensemble.
This is the sixth volume of arrangements for youth ensembles by British musician, composer and teacher James Rae. To date, he has published over 250 works, mostly of educational music, almost all of which have been published by Universal-Edition. These include instrumental editions, etudes and schools for wind instruments, transcriptions and duets. Together with his compatriot, jazz piano teacher Mike Cornick, he has written four musicals for schools.
The All together easy series is characterized by instrumental movements that are easy to play and listen to, "democratic" distribution of the melody to all four voices and a stylistically diverse selection of popular pieces from classical music, folk, jazz and original compositions.
Volume 6 contains: Mack the Knife (Kurt Weill), Bridal choir from Lohengrin (Richard Wagner), The Sky Boat Song (trad. Scottish) and the groovy Rugged Rock (James Rae).
Ensemble teachers can find All together easy Suitable material for enjoyable music-making in any combination of instruments. The level of difficulty for all instruments is correctly described as "easy". More demanding and contrapuntally differentiated ensemble movements can still be made by yourself!
All together easy, Easy concert pieces for variable four-part instrumental ensemble, Volume 6, arr. by James Rae, score and parts (in C, Bb and Eb), optional piano part, UE 21 585, € 22.50, Universal Edition, Vienna
