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I have been experimenting with the format of an easy melody parts and a more challenging lower line based on my own improvising backgrounds for students playing melodic stuff back when I taught music. The introduction to my just finished project is long and says:

Ridderen og Jomfruen
The Knight and the Virgin
Danish folk tune from the vicinity of Sorø. Here in duet settings for several permutations of instruments in A, G, C, F, Bb, or Eb
Arranged 2009 & 2014 by Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
The Danish composer A. P. Berggreen 1801-1880 (represented in my hymn project) collected a very large number of Danish and European folk tunes, which around 1870 were printed in several volumes that happened to be in the music department of the library in Holbæk, where I lived from 1958 through 1966. I had them on loan several times, also when I went there on holidays later on. But suddenly they went to a remote depot and I lost access to them for nearly 4 decades.

In 2009 a local friend, a former student and band mate of mine, loaned one of the volumes to me after finding it at a garage sale. I selected some of the tunes and arranged them as a suite for the small local band with 5 former students and/or band mates as the soloists. Sadly one of the soloists went very ill and died, so the music was never performed, because I had written the trumpet part very specifically with that player in mind, and I did not want him replaced.

This present very short little tune occurred in the suite with only one verse as a quiet movement set for just trumpet and clarinet. As there has been positive response to my arrangement of the Norwegian bridal march, Bruremarsj fra Nordmøre, where the fairly simple melody allows players of different levels of experience enjoying it together, I started looking at Ridderen og Jomfruen again.

The original verse was too short for a standalone item. Keeping the rhythmic pattern I wrote the lower part for one more verse, which I then placed as the 1st and 3rd verses for the present edition. Which is still very short and has no advanced chord patterns. The challenge is in playing the lower part in the 2nd verse, my original setting, with its wide leaps. Still keeping the pulse and a good balance with the beautiful melody. According to tradition the medieval virgins did needle point in company of their maids. Hard to display musically, so the lower line may rather illustrate a spinning wheel.

This edition may work as an etude and as a brief show-off piece for concerts in school or community contexts. Fitting with an ambitions of this whole download project: if players in whatever rehearsal or camp situation for whatever reason have spare time, but no music to play, then a computer and a printer plus access to my Yahoo group should provide them something hopefully relevant and challenging to place on their music stands. There is a far way to go yet, but this edition might be a step in that direction.

In many of my earlier editions it is implied that clarinets and saxophones may play from brass parts written in treble clef and that celli and bassoons may play from bass clef music written for band or orchestra low brasses. With this edition I wanted to write out dedicated playing scores for all of the relevant constellations that I could imagine from my own musical activities. I stopped when reaching 114 scores, but I still could have come up with more, especially because only the treble clef, in many transpositions, plus alto and bass clef concert are represented. No tenor clef. No transposed bass clef for the horns.

There are versions in 8 different keys. Some keys have the melody presented in 4 different octaves: high and low plus the super and contra octaves. One version calls for a flute with a B-foot. Another calls for a baritone saxophone with a low A. The bugles in G will need 3 valves and some sort of slide adjustment facility. Some tuba parts will need instruments with more than 3 valves.

With some instruments only one key is possible without entering exotic ranges or funny fingerings, but where possible other instruments will have versions in more than one key, which supports the etude aspect of this edition.

In many cases the scores within each key are compatible across instrument species. Only both instruments should play in the same octave range. The quick check is whether the opening interval is a sounding minor third.

A few players may play the melody in unison, but the same hardly goes for the lower line unless the players are mastering very disciplined section work.

Here comes an index over the folders relevant for the respective instrument types:

Recorders – soprano through great bass:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... Recorders/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... G%20major/

Flutes – piccolo through bass:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... A%20major/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... C%20Major/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... %20Flutes/


http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... %20Flutes/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... G%20major/

Double Reeds – oboe through contrabassoon:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... e%20reeds/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... C%20Major/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... e%20Reeds/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... e%20Reeds/" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Clarinets – Eb soprano through Eb contralto - Basset horns may look for parts for F Horn or for English horn:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... b%20major/" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... %20in%20A/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... Clarinets/" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... Clarinets/" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

Saxophones – soprano through baritone:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... axophones/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... b%20major/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... axophones/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... axophones/

Brasses in G, CC, F, Bb, or Eb – brass band or bass clef concert notation – Eb cornet through BBb tuba:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... b%20major/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... C%20Major/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... D%20major/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... b%20major/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... r/Brasses/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... 20Brasses/

Strings – violin through double bass:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... A%20major/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... r/Strings/

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... 20Strings/

Guitars:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/Yo ... r/Guitars/

As has been my previous practice, I will strive to provide more duet constellations if so requested.

Korsør - January 10th - 2014
Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre Bassbone Music

This sampled mp3 sounds the best:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/387 ... 2Horns.mp3

This one favours the lower line:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/387 ... assoon.mp3

These paired sample pages may look like odd neighbours, yet they are compatible despite the differences in instrument names and/or notation modes.



Nominally for euphoniums, yet playable on bass tubas: