A Miscellany of Dances

Johann Philipp Kirnberger

Arranger: Dr. Richard Jones

Editor: Alan Jones

Price: £4.95

Grade(s)/Level(s): 4, 5, 6

Instrumentation: Piano solo

Format: Sheet Music

Extent: 32 pages

ISBN: 9781854722416

• one of the best known of Bach's pupils, Johann Philipp Kirnberger published this 1777 collection of dances with the aim of developing a student's sense of time and rhythm
• Kirnberger mixes pieces in the traditional French dance style - Passepied, Gavotte, Gigue, Musette, etc. - with more up-to-date pre-Classical forms, including a Polonaise and Cossack

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Contents

• Bourrée: No. 3
• Canarie: No. 15
• Chaconne: No. 4
• Corrente: No. 19
• Cossack: No. 26
• Courante: No. 1
• Entrée
• Fanfare: Rondeau: No. 7
• Forlane: No. 6
• Gavotte: No. 9
• Gigue: No. 10
• L’Arlequin: No. 25
• Les Carillons, No. 20 from Recueil d’airs de danse caractéristiques
• Les Complimenteurs: No. 23
• Les Forgerons: No. 24
• Les Tambourins: No. 21
• Loure: No. 11
• Marche: No. 18
• Menuet Allemande: No. 22
• Menuetto: No. 2
• Musette: No. 12
• Passepied in D
• Polonaise: No. 14
• Rigaudon: No. 13
• Sarabande: No. 5
• Souabe: No. 16
• Souabe: No. 17

Series Information: Easier Piano Pieces

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