Bushband

Polkas, Jigs, Reels and Waltzes

Arranged by Peter Billam

for Violin, Piano accordeon and Banjo

© Peter J Billam, 1990

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This edition 10 May 2016.

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Bushband

These were the arrangements I made around 1990 for the acoustic AustralianBushband that I never quite found the other members of.They are forViolin, Piano accordion and Four-string banjo; all instruments loud enoughto play for small dances without any amplification.

PolkasHeel and Toe Polka, Davvy Davvy Knick Knack,The Glen Cottage Polkas, Spanish Ladies and The Wav es of Tory.

JigsThe Rambling Pitchfork, The Blackthorn Stick, Whelan’s Jig, O’Keefe’s Jig,Scully’s Jig, Lannigan’s and Father O’Flynn (or: Top of Cork Road).

WaltzesPlanxty Irwin, Give Me Your Hand and the First Waltz from The ViennaWoods by Johann Strauss

ReelsThe Lady on the Island, Lucky in Love, Last Night’s Fun and DrowsyMaggie.

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Peter Billam was born in London in 1948, studied piano, and lived in Switzerland from 1973 to1983, where he studied composition, classical guitar, flute and voice, worked as Musical Directorof the Théâtre Populaire Romand, and as recording engineer, record producer and computerprogrammer. He moved to Tasmania in 1983, and lectured in composition at the Conservatorium.He foundedwww.pjb.com.au, becoming the first composer to sell scores on-line, taking scoresfrom Composer to Performer in one immediate step.Www.pjb.com.auoffers a new approach tomusic publishing. These pieces arewritten to be read, made to be played !

Compositions at www.pjb.com.auinclude:Five Short Pieces, guitar, 1979;Divisions on an ItalianGround, flute and guitar, 1980;De ProfundisandNacht, on poems by Lama Anagarika Govinda, voice andpiano, 1980;Fünf Bagatellen, piano, 1980;Five Rounds, choir, 1986; Go Forth and Multiply, choir, 1986;Three Violin Duets, 1987; Fable, for piano, 1987;To Erich Jantsch, SAATTB recorders, 1988;A Suite ofCurves, trombone (or horn) and piano, 1990;Two Recorder Duets, alto recorders, or other melodyinstruments, 1991;Tr ombone Quintet, trombone, flute, piano, bass, and percussion, 1994;Three Songs, onpoems by Jack Kerouac, Vikram Seth and Dylan Thomas, voice and piano (only the first and third of these areavailable), 1994; Piano Study, piano, 1994;Four Dances, various ensembles including recorder quartet,string quartet, 1995;The Poet in the Clouds, on a poem by S. T. Coleridge,SATB choir, 1995;Tr es Casidasdel Diván del Tamarit, on poems by Federico García Lorca, voice and piano, 1997;Three Suites, for thesolo line, piano, and piano and a solo line, 2000;Die Zeiten, on poems by Kästner, Bachman and Jünger,choir (only the second and third of these are available), 2000;Three Duetsfor flutes, 2001;For Four Handsforpiano four hands, 2002;Three Preludesfor piano, 2003;Second Solo Suitefor flute, violin, viola or cello,2003;Guitar Duetfor two guitars, 2006;We Who Mournfor choir, 2007; Trio With Guitar for guitar andtwo clarinets or two recorders or two violas, 2008;Canonsfor two- and four-hand piano, 2009;Flute Trio,2012; Twenty Studiesfor piano, 2013-14;Music for Stringsand Two Encores for Stringsfor 2vln, 2vla,2vlc, 2015;Album for Choir, 2015.

Arrangements include: By J. S. Bach:Trio BWV 655, piano and flute;Vor deinen Thron BWV 668,piano;Fugue in F minor BWV 689, SATB recorders;Four Duets BWV 802-5, keyboard;Six Preludes andFuguesfrom Book I, keyboard;Flute Sonata BWV 1031transposed into G major for alto recorder andkeyboard;Flute Sonata BWV 1032completed by Peter Billam for flute and keyboard, also in C major foralto recorder, and in G major for descant;Ricercare a 3, from the Musikalisches Opferfor keyboard;Ricercare a 6, for sSATBG recorders, or strings, or two keyboards; andFuga Canonica in Epidiapente;from theArt of Fugue: Contrapuncti 1, 4 and9 for keyboard, andContrapunctus 14as completed by D. F.To v e y, for keyboard, or for SATB recorders, or for strings;Passacaglia and Fugue in cfor piano fourhands;Chorales with Descantfor melody instrument and piano;Cello Suites I, II and III for flute or altorecorder,Forty Chorales for piano,Der Geist hilftfor SATB-SATB recorders. By Brahms:Fugue in Abminor for organ, for SATB recorders and gamba, in A minor;Choralvorspiele for organ plus settings byIsaac, Bach, Praetorius, recorders.John Carr, Divisions on an Italian Ground, flute or recorder and guitar.Franz Liszt,Late piano pieces, G.F. Händel: Concerto Grosso in A minorop 6 no 4, harpsichord andrecorders;Recorder Sonata in Bbno 5, in G for tenor recorder and keyboard. ClaudioMonteverdi, EccoMormorar l’Onde, SSATB recorders. Arnold Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht for piano. Franz Schubert:Four Songs, voice and guitar;Dances, recorders and guitar, Dances, piano 4 hands.Scriabin,Two Preludesop.67; Five Preludes op.74, piano. Telemann,Twelve Flute Fantasias, recorder. Wilbye, Draw on sweetNight, SSATTB recorders, and for flute choir. Twelve Italian Songs, voice and guitar;Seven English Songs,voice and guitar;Fourteen Folk Dance Tunes, recorder and guitar;Bushband Dances, violin, accordeon andbanjo;Easy Classical Pieces, Bb trumpet and piano;Famous Beginnings, for piano.

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