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Issue: # 61
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April/2011

Free Sheet Music to Download

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Here's your JB Linear Monthly Freebie.

This month the freebie sheet music is "Largo", from Handel's opera Xerxes. This is set by John Gibson for woodwind quartets (flute quartet, clarinet quartet, and flute-oboe-clarinet-bassoon quartet). The download includes the score and all the parts

Download Largo for flute quartet

Download Largo for clarinet quartet

Download Largo for woodwind quartet (fl ob cl bsn)

You can access the freebies of the past in the JB Linear Music Archive. Click on "Freebie Archives" at the left.

Poll and Survey Results

Current Poll at JB Linear

The poll question now is, "Does the material from which a woodwind instrument is made matter in how it sounds? Mark your score 1-5 with 5 meaning materials matter a great deal." The poll can be found on the home page of JB Linear Music.

Here are the results so far:

1.....material doesn't matter-----10

2---------------------------------4

3---------------------------------11

4---------------------------------18

5.....material matters a lot------37

New Music at JB Linear Music www.music4woodwinds.com

Introducing Lisa Ochoco's music for flute

Lisa Ochoco is active in the Greater Portland Flute Society where she is a board member, a flutist in a flute quartet called Flutando, a flutist in the Lake Oswego Millennium Concert Band. She has been doing arrangements for flute ensembles for many years and they have been performed widely. Click here to see Lisa's music.

More music from John Gibson (JB Linear Music owner)

William Boyce was an English composer who lived between 1711 and 1779. In 1737 he became the director of the Three Choirs Festival and wrote his "Worcester Overture" which later was published as Symphony #8. His music is lively and delightful and in some ways his music sounds more like Handel than Handel himself did. There are complete versions of the symphony for

There are also trio versions of the last two movements for