"Tyneside Dances" Suite - symphonic wind dectet
"Tyneside Dances" Suite
An original composition for double wind quintet/bass or tuba.
It is based on 4 Tyneside (Geordie) tunes.
Alternative bass clarinets for bassoons
Written as a pastiche of Malcolm Arnold's suites of English, Scottish, Cornish Dances.
The movements are :
1. When the Boat comes in (Dance to tha' Daddy) (you tube video)
2. Blow, Bonnie Breeze (Blow the wind Southerly)
3.Sandgate (The Keel Row)
4.Robert S. (Bobby Shaftoe)