SAMPLE. WaterMusicDances. George Frideric Handel Deborah Baker Monday, Arranger. Kjos String Orchestra Grade 1½ Full Conductor Score SO276F $6.

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1 Kjos String Orchestra Grade ½ Full Conductor Score SO76F $6.00 George Frideric Handel Deborah Baker Monday Arranger WaterMusicDances Neil A. Kjos Music Comany Publisher

2 The Arranger Deborah Baker Monday currently teaches in the Logan City School District Orchestra Program in Logan Utah. She is a cello/bass secialist who works with 4th through 8th grade students in several schools. Ms. Monday received her B.M.E. rom Florida State University with an emhasis in strings and an M.M. in Comosition rom the University o Alabama. She began working on a D.M.A. at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge while teaching string classes at the 4th through th grade levels. Ms. Monday is an active bass erormer and rivate teacher. She has served as an adjunct bass instructor at Utah State University or several years has been on the aculty o the Utah ASTA with NSOA Bass Fest and has served as a clinician at the Midwest Clinic ASTA with NSOA National Conerence and various state music educators conventions throughout the country. In 999 she was named the Utah ASTA with NSOA Elementary Teacher o the Year and she also received the award or Suerior Accomlishment at the 003 Utah Music Educators Association Conerence acknowledging her excetional contributions to educational music or young string layers. Ms. Monday was declared winner o the 006 Utah ASTA Comosition Cometition or her comosition Chant-Formations. Ms. Monday has many ublications to her credit including three collections coauthored with Janice L. McAllister Strings Extraordinaire! Holidays Extraordinaire! and More Strings Extraordinaire! She is also coauthor (with Robert S. Frost) o Artistry in Ensembles. The Arrangement The three dances in this arrangement are taken rom the second suite in D major and the aendix to the set o suites. This aendix contains ieces ound in the three suites with dierent instrumentations as well as some new material. The oening Bouree is one o the more recognizable movements and lies very well or Grade in the key o D. It is ollowed by a march section in the key o G and a vigorous inale that returns to the original key. Each dance could be layed searately but the three together make or a delightul set. Instrumentation List (Set C) 8 st Violin 8 nd Violin 5 3 rd Violin (Viola T.C.) 5 Viola 5 5 String Bass Piano (otional) Full Conductor Score Additional scores and arts are available. Learning Bank Each student art includes a Learning Bank eaturing inormation about George Frideric Handel and Water Music. The Learning Bank is also rinted on age 3 o this score. SO76

3 Learning Bank: Handel and Water Music George Frideric Handel ( ) was born in the town o Halle Germany. Although he exressed an early interest in music he was strongly discouraged by his ather. To avoid the disaointment and anger o his arents he had to ractice the clavichord (an early keyboard instrument) in secret. Desite his early challenges however Handel soon realized that he wanted to be a comoser and he let his hometown to ursue his dream. Ater living in many German and Italian cities and soaking u the musical cultures o his dierent homes he inally settled in England in 70. For the rest o his lie he would live and work in London and although he was German he was considered by many to be the best English comoser o his day. Handel s musical style was deely inluenced by all the time he sent living in dierent countries and listening to their native styles and traditions. He was truly an international comoser: his harmonies were German his strong melodies Italian and many o his orms and rhythms were French. Handel was a master at combining all o the dominant musical trends o his day into a style that was uniquely his own. He was also a very roductive comoser: over the course o his career Handel wrote thousands o ieces including over 70 oeras and oratorios. An oera is a musical drama or orchestra and singers tyically based on mythological themes; oratorios are similar although they are usually based on religious themes. Today he is known rimarily or his Music or the Royal Fireworks (748) and the amous Messiah oratorio (74) with its assionate and joyul Hallelujah chorus. Water Music is a series o orchestral movements oten organized into three suites (collections o dances). It was irst erormed on a barge traveling u the Thames River during a boat arty lanned by King George I in 77. Legend has it that the King was so delighted that he requested the tired musicians to lay the entire iece three times! Maybe i you lay Water Music Dances with great energy your delighted audience will ask or you to lay it again just like the King o England. 3 SO76

4 4 Full Conductor Score Arox. time :50 Violins Viola* String Bass Piano (otional) 5 Water Music Dances Maestoso (q = ) detached Maestoso (q = ) detached George Frideric Handel Arranged by Deborah Baker Monday detached detached detached 3 L 4 detached 6 L SO76 * A art or 3rd Violin (Viola T.C.) is included. 009 Neil A. Kjos Music Comany 438 Jutland Drive San Diego Caliornia 97. International coyright secured. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. WARNING! The contents o this ublication are rotected by coyright law. To coy or reroduce them by any method is an inringement o the coyright law. Anyone who reroduces coyrighted matter is subject to substantial enalties and assessments or each inringement.

5 5 0 5 L m m m m Allegro (q = 0) m Allegro (q = 0) m 9 SO76

6 m m m m m m SO76

7 Lively (h = 84) Lively (h = 84) m m m m m m 39 SO76

8 m m m m m m H4 L 49 SO76

9 rit. nd time only rit. nd time only rit. nd time only rit. nd time only rit. nd time only rit. nd time only SO76

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