Ballet Music

*40 Dance Movements.* Includes preface in English, French and German.

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 Halle and worked as a composer in Hamburg and 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 polyphonic choral 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.

*Suite I - IL PASTOR FIDO*
1. Ouverture
2. Gavotte
3. Menuet
4. Menuet
5. March
6. Pour Les Chasseurs
7. Sarabande
8. Gigue
9. Menuet
10. Gavotte
11. Gigue

*Suite No. 2 by ALMIRA*
1. Overture
2. Chaconne
3. Sarabande
4. Courante
5. Bourrée
6. Menuet
7. Rigaudon
9. Rondeau
10. Gigue
11. Entrée
12. Rigaudon(Tanz von Africanern)
13. Sarabande (Tanz von Asiatern)
14. Gigue
15. Menuet

*Suite No. 3 by RODRIGO*
1. Overture
2. Gigue
3. Saraband
4. Matelot
5. Menuet
6. Bourrée
7. Bourrée
8. Menuet

*Suite No. 4 by ALCINA*
1. Entrée
2. Musette
3. Menuet
4. Gavotte
5. Saraband
6. Menuet
7. Tamburino.

_Score 47 pp. Parts 16pp._

_ABRSM DESCANT SYLLABUS 2018-2021 Grade 4 LIST A_