Water Music: Airs and Dances

*Baroque Suite* arranged for solo descant and keyboard.

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George Frideric Handel – (23 February 1685 14 April 1759)was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi and organ concertos. Handel received his training in Halleand worked as a composer in Hamburgand Italy before settling in London in 1712, where he spent the bulk of his career and became a naturalised British subject in 1727.He was strongly influenced both by the middle-German polyphonicchoral tradition and by composers of the Italian Baroque. In turn, Handel’s music forms one of the peaks of the “high baroque” style, bringing Italian opera to its highest development, creating the genres of English oratorio and organ concerto, and introducing a new style into English church music. He is consistently recognized as one of the greatest composers of his age.

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1. Adagio
2. Minuet for the French Horn
3. Bourree
4. Hornpipe
5. Air
6. Trumpet Minuet
7. Air
8. Aire
9. Minuet [for the Violins]
10. Air [for the Recorders]
11. Country Dance

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_Score 13 pp. Parts 8 pp._