Enjoy a new setting of the familiar English folk melody, Greensleeves.
This arrangement, which can also be titled "What Child is This?," is an
excellent addition to any concert program year-round or for an
Christmas season service or performance.
Beginning in E minor, the piece grows from a pianissimo, using snippets
of the melody introduced in the lowest octaves. The familiar tune is
taken through a series of interesting variations before a dramatic
transition to D minor.
In the new key, the bass bells reign with the melody as the highest
octaves create a counterpoint and the middle octaves provide rhythm. In
the final seconds of the setting, the work returns to the quiet,
effervescent style of the introduction before finally vanishing into
silence.
Greensleeves does not require any advanced performance techniques except for occasional bell switches.
This
work has not yet been professionally recorded. If your ensemble would
like to feature this work on your next professional recording and allow
us to use that recording here, forzandoArts will refund the cost of
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