Hoe Down

Limboing Down, School ensemble

Another of the ensemble pieces for classroom orchestra.

This one features first/second time repeat bars.

Blues Cruise

School ensemble

Another from the collection for Classroom Performance.

This one continues the attempt to try and make stylistic differences in music clearer to young people.

Soft beaters on the xylophones are perhaps more appropriate than hard in several of these pieces.

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La Volta

Limboing Down, Percussion, School ensemble

Another short piece in the classroom music selection.

As music teachers will know, La Volta was a popular dance in sixteenth century high Elizabethan society. At different points in the progress of the dance, the male dancer would lift his partner as high in the air as he could.

Here is a replication of the spirit of the dance for youngsters in the middle years. The jump points are obvious and can be re-enforced with percussion.

The change in rhythm may not be quite authentic but is pretty natural.

War Dance

School ensemble

War Dance - another piece classroom ensemble - with marked dynamic changes