A collection of attractive pieces for flexible ensemble with keyboard accompaniment for use in the home, in schools and music centres. Ideal for informal music-making, student and professional performance. CD with listening and play-along tracks, performed by outstanding musicians: Bonnie Rideout (fiddle), Jadwiga Kotnowska (flute), Kevin McCrae (cello) and Jeremy Barlow (harpsichord).Meet Scotland's 18th-century composers!
- Classical pieces influenced by folk, and vice versa
- Dance tunes celebrating new bridges in Scotland (1769-1809)
- Scottisch love songs
- First modern edition of James Oswald's 'Thistle' sonata
- Two pieces by Stamitz's Scottish pupil the Earl of Kelly
- Creative use of 1st position on the violin
- Also suitable for flute and oboe
- Simple, effective accompaniments
- Newly researched, authentic texts The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 1)