Curtain Up-Quartets-Easy to Intermediate arrangements

Curtain Up! Quartets (Bühne Frei! Quartets)

Easy to Intermediate arrangements for 4 flutes by Barbara Gisler-Haase
Published by Universal Edition

Instrumentation: 4 c flutes, optional alto flute (sub for Flute 4)

Includes score, flute parts, CD

Contents:
Amor vittorioso (Giovanni Gastoldi)
Sommerkanon (Trad. English)
Wohlauf, ihr Gäste (Erasmus Widmann)
Tamburinschlägerin (Robert Schumann)
Fragen (Johannes Brahms)
Im Himmelreich ein Haus steht (Max Reger)
Abendgang im Lenz (Max Reger)
Túrót eszik a cigány (Zoltán Kodály)

The arrangements are created for flute ensembles with four voices. In each case the lowest voice can also be performed with an alto flute as an alternative.

Preface:
This collection contains pieces from the chorale literature of the Renaissance and the Romantic period and is intended for group instruction. Concerted vocal music is particularly well suited for the flute ensemble, since when playing the flute the melodic quality is so similar to singing – essentially based upon breathing. This enables the flutist to maintain a natural flow during his performance. Since there is very little original literature for the flute ensemble, a pedagogue is often required to draw on arrangements in which the lowest voices are frequently comprised of non-flute accompanying motifs. In choral music, all voices are equally employed in a voice-leading manner. – Barbara Gisler-Haase, October 2015