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Schubert Dances by Franz Schubert From D.378, D.529, D.971, D.769, D.420 and D.128 Arranged for Recorders and Guitar by Peter Billam © Peter J Billam, 2002 This score is offered under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence; see creativecommons.org This edition 15 February 2014. www.pjb.com.au

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Schubert Dances

by Franz Schubert

From D.378, D.529, D.971, D.769, D.420 and D.128

Arranged for Recorders and Guitar by Peter Billam

© Peter J Billam, 2002

This score is offered under theCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

licence; seecreativecommons.org

This edition 15 February 2014.

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Schubert Dances, arranged for recorders and guitar

These well-loved pieces will never take the place of the Art of Fugue or the C# minorstring quartet Op. 131, but they are a reliable recipie for happiness.They are offered herein new arrangements for guitar and recorders, which should be useful for busking, or forsocial recorder playing where half a dozen players take a few dances each and cometogether for the Wiener Deutsche.

The originals for piano are available fromDover, who in 1989 reprinted the editions byBreitkopf & Härtelof 1889 and 1897.

Acht Ländler D.378The Acht Ländlerwere written on 13 February 1816.In this arrangement, the guitar iswritten transposing with a capo on the first fret (alternatively, if A 415 recorders areavailable, the capo is not needed). The guitar fingering often uses high positions on thefourth and fifth string to give strength to the bass line.Number 6 needs a Tenor recorder,but an Alto can used if the low E’s are played as G’s. If two recorder players areavailable the second halves of numbers 4 and 5 might also benefit from the change in tonecolour offered by the Tenor. In number 8, theff second half has been transposed up anoctave to giv e a strong conclusion to the set.

Acht Ecossaises D.529Originally written in February 1817.In the Dover edition these Ecossaises are split into agroup of three, and another group of five which is incorporated into the twelve GermanDances D. 420, so the order as reconstituted here is somewhat conjectural.

Wiener Deutsche D.128 no 2This is the second of theTwelve Viennese Dances, D. 128 and was originally written inabout 1812.The original takes place in the treble clef, so this transcription for AATBrecorders sounds at the original pitch. The melody is given to the Alto recorder. Becauseof divisi in the lower voices, there should be at least two Tenors and at least two Basses,so the minimum ensemble would be 2 Altos, 2 Tenors and 2 Basses.

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Fünf Deutsche TänzeThis selection of German Dances has been arranged for two recorders and guitar. Theyare D.971no. 1, D.420 no. 10, D.769 no. 1, D.971 no. 2and D.420no. 12. They aretaken fromThree German DancesD.971,Two German DancesD.769 (written in January1824) andTwelve German DancesD.420 (written in 1817). The first three are arrangedfor Alto and Tenor recorders and guitar, then D.971 no. 2 for Soprano, Alto and guitar,and D.420 no. 12 for two Altos and guitar.

In D.971 no. 2, the Alto recorder has an eight-bar contribution which gives theopportunity for some practice in C# major scales. The middle f# is more fluent with thealternative fingering using just the thumb, and the low G# can be omitted if necessary.Lucky owners of an A415 instrument could play the passage a semitone up in D major,though this tranposition has not been written out here.In D.420no. 12,the final note inthe top voice has been moved up from e to a, to give a strong conclusion to the set.

In these dances, the guitar part follows the left hand of the piano almost exactly −scarcely one note has been added, omitted or transposed − and the result is almostembarrasingly guitaristic.It is hard to imagine that Schubert did not create these pieceson the guitar before writing them out for the piano.

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Acht Ländler D.378Franz Schubert for Recorder and Guitar

arranged for Recorder and Guitar (c) Peter J Billam

No. 1

34

p

8

34

Capo on 1st fret . . .

0 0

123

123

43

00

43

00

88

0

143

0

123

f

sul A0023

0403

88

No. 2

34

p

8

34

Capo on 1st . . .

0 0

123

123

03

40

03

40

88

f

0403

88

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5Acht Ländler D.378, Franz Schubert, arr. for Recorder and Guitar

arranged for Recorder and Guitar (c) Peter J Billam

No. 3

34

p

8

34

Capo on 1st . . .

8

f

040

0403

8 02

02

83

No. 4

34

p

8

34

Capo on 1st . . .

8

(ossia Tenor)

f

8

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6 Acht Ländler D.378, Franz Schubert, arr. for Recorder and Guitar

arranged for Recorder and Guitar (c) Peter J Billam

No. 5

34

p

8

34

Capo on 1st . . .

8 423

423

30

(ossia Tenor)

f

88

No. 6 (Tenor)

34

mf

8

34

3 0

Capo on 1st . . .

3

fp

423

1

3

04

3

04

o

2

88

fp

3

04

3

04

o

2 f

fz

88

fz

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7Acht Ländler D.378, Franz Schubert, arr. for Recorder and Guitar

arranged for Recorder and Guitar (c) Peter J Billam

No. 7

34

mf

8

34

Capo on 1st . . .

fz

88

fz

f

fz

8 1 48

03

fz fz

No. 8

34

p

8

34

Capo on 1st . . .

fz

88

fz

ff

fz

8

fz fz

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8Acht Ecossaises D.529

Franz Schubert, arr. for Recorder and Guitar

arranged for Recorder and Guitar (c) Peter J Billam

No. 1

24

8

24

6e en Ré . . .

8

No. 2

24

Alto . . .

8

24

6e en Ré . . .

8

No. 3

24

Alto . . .

8

24

6e en Ré . . .

8

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9Acht Ecossaises D.529, Franz Schubert, arr. for Recorder and Guitar

arranged for Recorder and Guitar (c) Peter J Billam

No. 4

24

8

24

6e en Ré . . .

801 0

2

4

130

130

4

01

2

31

24

No. 5

24

8

24

6e en Ré . . .

8 123

4413

113

sul 4o

No. 6

24

Alto . . .

8

24

8

24

6e en Ré . . .

8

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10 Acht Ecossaises D.529, Franz Schubert, arr. for Recorder and Guitar

arranged for Recorder and Guitar (c) Peter J Billam

No. 7

24

8

24

6e en Ré . . .

8

No. 8

24

8

24

8

24

6e en Ré . . .

88

8

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11Viennese Dance D.128 no 2

Franz Schubert

arranged for AATB recorders (c) Peter J Billam

Alto solo34

p Alto

3434

Tenore p

34

Bassi

dolce

p

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12Fünf Deutscher Tänze aus D.971, D.769 u. D.420

Franz Schubert

arranged for Recorders and Guitar (c) Peter J Billam

D.971 No. 1

34

Alto f

34

Tenor

8

34

8

34

8

fz

fz

fz

fz

fz

8

fz

ff

ff

fz

fz

fz

__________ 1a _______ 2a

D.420 No. 10

34

Alto p

34

Tenor p

8

34

f

f

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13Fünf Deutscher Tänze aus D.971, D.769 u. D.420, Franz Schubert

arranged for Recorders and Guitar (c) Peter J Billam

34

ff

34

ff

8

34

023

4

D.769 No. 1

34

Alto pp

34

Tenor pp

8

34

88

pp

pp

88

cresc . . .

cresc . . .

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14 Fünf Deutscher Tänze aus D.971, D.769 u. D.420, Franz Schubert

arranged for Recorders and Guitar (c) Peter J Billam

D.971 No. 28

34

Soprano p

34

Alto

8

34

legato

8

8

p

8

8

mf

8

8

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15Fünf Deutscher Tänze aus D.971, D.769 u. D.420, Franz Schubert

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D.420 No. 12

34

Alto

34

Alto

8

34

fp fp fp

fp

fp

fp

8

fp

8

8

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Peter Billam was born in London in 1948, studied piano, and lived in Switzerland from 1973 to1983, where he studied composition, classical guitar, flute and voice, worked as Musical Directorof the Théâtre Populaire Romand, and as recording engineer, record producer and computerprogrammer. He moved to Tasmania in 1983, lectured in composition at the Conservatorium,conducted recorder ensembles and choirs, studied recorder, voice and harpsichord.He foundedwww.pjb.com.au, becoming the first composer to sell scores on-line, with on-line delivery,taking scores from Composer to Performer in one immediate step.Www.pjb.com.auoffers a newapproach to music publishing. These pieces arewritten to be read, made to be played !

Compositionsat www.pjb.com.auinclude:Five Short Pieces, guitar, 1979;Divisions on an ItalianGround, flute and guitar, 1980;De ProfundisandNacht, on poems by Lama Anagarika Govinda, voice andpiano, 1980;Fünf Bagatellen, piano, 1980;Five Rounds, choir, 1986; Go Forth and Multiply, choir, 1986;Three Violin Duets, 1987; Fable, for piano, 1987;To Erich Jantsch, SAATTB recorders, 1988;A Suite ofCurves, trombone (or horn) and piano, 1990;Two Recorder Duets, alto recorders, or other melodyinstruments, 1991;Tr ombone Quintet, trombone, flute, piano, bass, and percussion, 1994;Three Songs, onpoems by Jack Kerouac, Vikram Seth and Dylan Thomas, voice and piano (only the first and third of these areavailable), 1994; Piano Study, piano, 1994;Four Dances, various ensembles including recorder quartet,string quartet, 1995;The Poet in the Clouds, on a poem by S. T. Coleridge,SATB choir, 1995;Tr es Casidasdel Diván del Tamarit, on poems by Federico García Lorca, voice and piano, 1997;Three Suites, for thesolo line, piano, and piano and a solo line, 2000;Die Zeiten, on poems by Kästner, Bachman and Jünger,choir (only the second and third of these are available), 2000;Three Duetsfor flutes, 2001;For Four Handsforpiano four hands, 2002;Three Preludesfor piano, 2003;Second Solo Suitefor flute, violin, viola or cello,2003;Guitar Duetfor two guitars, 2006;We Who Mournfor choir, 2007; Trio With Guitar for guitar andtwo clarinets or two recorders or two violas, 2008;Canonsfor two- and four-hand piano, 2009;Flute Trio,2012;Ke yboard Studies, 2013.

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