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Issue: # 83
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Dear 
Here is your JB Linear Monthly Freebie.
This month's free sheet music is a trio by Boccherini. The original string trio was suggested to me by Victoria Racz as a good candiate for an oboe trio. Victoria plays with the Double Reed Divas trio and is the director of the Northwest Oboe Seminar that occurs each year in Portland, Oregon. If you are interested in oboe ensemble music, Victoria's husband, Timoteus, wrote some wonderful pieces for the oboe.
This setting for woodwinds includes three trios: two oboes and english horn; flute, oboe, and bassoon; and two clarinets and bass clarinet.
You can access hundreds of freebies of the past in the JB Linear Music Archive. Click on "Freebie Archives" at the left. |
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Dance of Mrs. Holman's Demon Chickens
This is my entry in the free-scores.com composition contest. It is for clarinet duet and refers to a Gibson family story about a John Gibson who lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1659 he accused a Mrs. Holman of witchcraft. One of the reasons had to do with her chickens who had been getting into John's barn and eating his grain. He complained to Mrs. Holman and the chickens stopped coming right away. Realizing you can't tell a chicken what do to and expect it to obey, he thought it must be witchcraft. Fortunately, Mrs. Holman was not convicted.
The music and a recording is available at http://www.free-scores.com/download-sheet-music.php?pdf=51834
There is also a UTube video
Beginning February 1st and ending March 18, if you are a member of free-scores.com please vote for my composition if you like it . If you are not a member, you should be! |
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Next month's Freebie Download:
Waltz from "The Album for the Young" by Tschaikowsky for woodwind solo and piano
Player's quinte* of the month:
In 1761 Boccherini went to Madrid, where he was employed by Infante Luis Antonio of Spain, younger brother of King Charles III. There he flourished under royal patronage, until one day when the King expressed his disapproval at a passage in a new trio, and ordered Boccherini to change it. The composer, no doubt irritated with this intrusion into his art, doubled the passage instead, leading to his immediate dismissal.
--Wikipedia
(I like his style! -jg)
Have fun playing and all the best for the new year!
Sincerely, John Gibson JB Linear Music *quinte: sometimes it is a quote, sometimes it is a hint |
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