Flute,Piano - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.773334

Composed by Charles Francois Gounod. Arranged by Yoel Epstein. Children,Romantic Period,Standards. Score and part. 6 pages. Yoel Epstein #4289261. Published by Yoel Epstein (A0.773334).

Funeral March for a Marionette is, perhaps, composer Charles Gounod's most famous composition. This is largely because it was used as the theme song of the popular 1950s television series Alfred Hitchkok Presents.

Gounod wrote the piece in 1872. The piece, originally for piano, describes the story of a marionette who is killed in a duel. In the original score, Gounod included comments in French matching the action in the story to the music:

·       La Marionnette est cassée!!! (The marionette is broken!!!)

·       Murmure de regrets de la troupe (Murmurs of regret from the troupe)

·       Le Cortège (The procession)

·       Ici plusieurs des principaux personnages de la troupe s'arrêtent pour se rafraîchir (Here many of the principal personages stop for refreshments)

·       Retour à la maison (Return to the house)

 The picture on the cover is the first page of the original publication.

 You are welcome to try some of my other arrangements. In addition to the songs offered on this site (you can see them at http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?Ntt=Yoel+Epstein ), I have arranged three songs from the Holocaust, which I arranged and distribute for free on IMSLP. You can find them at http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Ravpapa. If you need arrangements of any of these songs for special combinations of instruments, feel free to contact me, and I will try to accommodate. Write me at yoelepst@gmail.com. Hope you enjoy.