SKU: A0.896153

Double O’dance was improvised in two parts for modern dance classes in New York, for the choreographer  Merce Cunningham. The slow intro flows see Lesley into the 6/8 gigue. I was experimenting at the time in sudden modulations so there will be a few key changes along the way.

SKU: A0.1326649

Instrumental trio based on The Loadstars by William Shield
This lovely trio is a curiously out of context setting by William Shield of words from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
In Shield's setting the three voices simply admire a beautiful woman, in enticing harmonies - a fine piece of music deservedly part of the repertoire of trios everywhere

O happy fair,
Your eyes are lodestars and your tongue sweet air:
More tuneable than lark to shepherd's ear,
When wheat is green, when hawthorn buds appear.



Performed by The Budapest Scoring Clarinet Ensemble.

SKU: LV.11695

C.A. White's Secular Quartetts for Mixed and Male Voice. 4. Dancing O'er the Waves (Barcarole). Written and Composed by C.A. White. Arranged and harmonized by William Gooch. Published 1871 by White, Smith & Perry, 298, 300 Washington St. in Boston. Composition of da capo with piano and voice (ttbb quartet) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Sailors, Happiness. First line reads What joy! what joy! We're dancing o'er the waves!..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

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