John Jenkins- Suite In G Minor Arr. Connelly (Concertino) Gr 3.5-4

John Jenkins- Suite in G minor (Concertino)

John Jenkins was an English composer of the Renaissance Era.  He was a remarkably long-lived composer for the time and also an extraordinarily prolific composer.  He wrote a vast volume of music, mainly for viols, but also for violins with viols and keyboard.  He was employed as music master with two Royalist families during the English Civil War: the Derehams of West Dereham and the L'Estrange family of Hunstanton in Norfolk.

Early music expert Patrice Connelly has arranged this Suite in G minor for string orchestra.  It has been compiled from several pieces of the same key and was not conceived as a suite by Jenkins.  All dynamics, bowing and slurs are editorial.  The pieces were originally written for four viols: a consort of two trables, a tenor and a bass viol.  The double bass part has been composed for this edition and is based on the vass viol part.

The three movements include a Pavan, an Almain and a Sarraband

It is suitable for a string orchestra at Grade 3.5 to 4.

Parts

• Conductors score
• 8 x violin 1
• 8 x violin 2
• 4 x viola
• 6x cello
• 4 x bass