Description
Impromptu No. 2 in B Minor, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, arranged by Paul Burnell for instruments in four parts.
Download comprises both score and parts.
Duration 4:00
Score in C
The arrangement is suitable for multiple quartet combinations with parts available (and potential instrumentations suggested) as follows:
Part 1: C, Eb (Flute, Oboe, Alto Recorder, Eb Clarinet, Violin 1)
Part 2: C, Bb, G (Alto Flute, Oboe, Tenor Recorder, Bb Clarinet, Violin 2)
Part 3: C, Bb, Eb, F (Bb Clarinet, Bass Recorder, Alto Saxophone, Horn in F, Violin 3, Viola)
Part 4: C, Bb, F (Bassoon, Great bass Recorder, Tenor Saxophone, Horn in F, 'Cello)
Part 4 may be played or doubled an octave lower than written - using the 'Bass Clef up 8' part.
Any other appropriate instruments, even if not suggested above, may play.
Play cue-sized notes in brackets where main notes are out of range or inconvenient.
Programme note:
Impromptu No. 2 in B Minor by English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 – 1912) was first published in 1911 as one of two Impromptus for piano. In 1916 the piece appeared as '2nd Impromptu', transcribed by Arthur Eaglefield-Hull, in the first book of an album of organ versions of Coleridge-Taylor's compositions. Neither the piano or organ version of the B Minor Impromptu has a printed Opus number, and is different to Coleridge-Taylor's Impromptu No. 2 Op.78 which is in C Major and part of a set of three Impromptus for organ, also published in 1911.