10106 Dancing Days
Variations on a Traditional
English Christmas Melody

arranged by Roger Harvey
for 10-piece brass ensemble
and percussion

Difficulty: Medium

Price: £35.00

Programme notes:
Tomorrow Shall be my Dancing Day is probably from as early as the 14th Century. The tune has the characteristic 6/8 rhythm of the mediaeval English carol and the words tell the story of the life of Jesus with dance as a recurring symbolic gesture.
This version sets each verse as a variation in a different dance style; after a verse of the original theme the variations begin with a Basse Dance and follow with a stately Gavotte, a Haydnesque Minuet, a virtuosic Czardas, a Viennese Waltz, a Ragtime, a Tango, a Rumba and a final variation in rock-style before concluding with a Fugue.

Performance notes:
Percussion is optional but desirable.
Trumpet 1 may require a piccolo trumpet
Trumpet 4 requires a flugel
Characterise each variation in an obvious, possibly exaggerated manner to get the full contrasts between the styles.