French Overture for String Orchestra by Michele Willis Sheet Music for Orchestra at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Michele Willis

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 9

Arrangement Orchestra

Publisher Teton Music

Level 3

Product ID 983492

Genre Baroque Classical Contemporary

Performance Group String Orchestra

Product Description

Original contemporary composition written in the french overture style. Excellent option for schools and educators teaching this musical form to students and audiences.

History of the French overture musical form
The French overture is a musical form widely used in the Baroque period. Its basic formal division is into two parts, which are usually enclosed by double bars and repeat signs. They are complementary in styles (slow in dotted rhythms and fast in fugal style), and the first ends with a half-cadence (i.e., on a dominant harmony) that requires an answering structure with a tonic ending. The second section often but not always ends with a brief recollection of the first, sometimes even repeating some of its melodic content

Instrumentation:
-Violin I
-Violin II
-Viola
-Cello
-Double Bass

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