Woodwind Ensemble,Woodwind Quintet Bassoon,Clarinet,Flute,Horn,Oboe - Level 3 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1272143
By The Beatles. By John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Arranged by Ray Thompson. 20th Century,Pop,Standards. 10 pages. RayThompsonMusic #864474. Published by RayThompsonMusic (A0.1272143).
Arranged standard wind quintet.
Taken from the album The Beatles known as the White Album.Ā
Ā It was written by Paul McCartney and credited to LennonāMcCartney, and performed as a solo piece by McCartney with solo acoustic guitar.
McCartney explained on Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, aired in 2005, that the guitar accompaniment for Blackbird was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach's BourrƩe in E minor, a well-known lute piece, often played on the classical guitar.
As teenagers, he and George Harrison tried to learn BourrƩe as a show off piece. The BourrƩe is distinguished by melody and bass notes played simultaneously on the upper and lower strings.
McCartney adapted a segment of the BourrƩe (reharmonised into the original's relative major key of G) as the opening of Blackbird, and carried the musical idea throughout the song.
My arrangement gives the vocal solo to the oboe.
The horn sustains throughout.
The vid link is of my wind quartet arrangement.
