Waltzes in the Pond

Composer:Eccles – Lance
Instrumentation:Descant – Treble – Tenor – Bass
Period/Genre:Australian Contemporary

Five more melodies from Der Fluyten Lustof is written for a recorder quartet comprised of Descant – Treble – Tenor – Bass. It is composed by Australian composer Lance Eccles.

It is comprised of 5 parts as follows:

1. Come Again

2. Bravade

3. Prince Robert’s Maske

4. Joyful Maytime

5. Psalm 150 (Praise ye the Lord)

Composer Lance Eccles was a member of the Reluctant Consort, a Sydney based recorder group, for 20 years, and nearly all his recorder compositions and arrangements have been written either for that group or for meetings of the Sydney Society of Recorder Players. He recently retired from being a senior lecturer in Chinese at Macquarie University and now lives in Goulburn.

Score: 11 pages. 4 parts @ 4 pages ea.