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Fantasies on Frère Jacques
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General Info
Year: 2010
Duration: c. 5:30
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
Full Score
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II
Horn in F I-II
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion (5 players), including:
- Bass Drum
- Crash Cymbals
- Glockenspiel
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Triangle
- Wood Block
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
The piece was designed as variations on the French folk song Frère Jacques. This song is chosen as a theme because it is well known all over the world and the melody is easy to play for young musicians. Students can learn typical styles of wind music through performing the piece.
The entire piece consists of six sections titled, Fanfare, Theme, March, Waltz, Chorale, and Finale. Additionally two other European folk songs, London Bridge Is Falling Down and O du lieber Augustin, which sound similar to Frère Jacques, are also employed in the piece.
- Program Note from Teaching Music Through Performance in Band
Commercial Discography
None discovered thus far.
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
Works for Winds by this Composer
Adaptable Music
- Elegy (Flex instrumentation)
- Fanfare and Celebration March (Flex instrumentation)
- Foster Songs Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger)
- Hana Processional (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger)
- A Little Festive Music (Flex instrumentation) (2013)
- Over Great Waves and Far Away (Flex instrumentation) (2012)
- Quadrille (Flex instrumentation) (1982)
- Smiley Rag (Flex instrumentation)
All Wind Works
- Clalitas (1989)
- Dancing in Air (2004)
- Dancing in Rain (2009)
- Eine Nachtmusik fur Erlkonig (2014)
- Elegy (Flex instrumentation)
- Encore! (2013)
- Fanfare and Celebration March (Flex instrumentation)
- Fantasma Lunare (2008)
- Fantasies on Frère Jacques (2010)
- Fantasy on "Madama Butterfly" (2000) (as arranger)
- A Festival Suite (2002)
- Fêtes Lointains (2009)
- Foster Songs Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger)
- Funiculi Funicula Rhapsody (as arranger)
- Hana Processional (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger)
- Impromptu (1976)
- Journey of Exploration (2008)
- Lachrymae (2005)
- A Little Festive Music (Flex instrumentation) (2013)
- Lux Aeterna (1998/2000)
- My Neighbor Totoro (as arranger) (1988/2008)
- Nutcracker Fantasy (as adapter)
- Over Great Waves and Far Away (2012)
- Over Great Waves and Far Away (Flex instrumentation) (2012)
- A Poetry of Breeze (1991)
- Ponyo on a Cliff by the Sea (as arranger) (2008)
- A Prelude to the Shining Day (2010)
- Quadrille (Flex instrumentation) (1982)
- Ruffles Call from Afar (2015)
- Shadow Song (2016)
- Smiley Rag (Flex instrumentation)
- Songs for Wind Ensemble (2010)
- A Srping Breeze Passes Through a Plain (1999)
- Star Fantasy (2014)
- Toccata and Fugue in D minor (as arranger) (1705/2014)
- Turandot (as arranger) (2007)
- The Vein of Water (2008)
- A Wild Rose Above (2014)
- WINGS
Resources
- Grice, Jennifer L."Fantasies on Frère Jacques." In Teaching Music through Performance in Band. Volume 10, Compiled and edited by Richard Miles, 229-240. Chicago: GIA Publications, 2015.
