Joseph Gething – Themes For Flute Book 6 (Flute & Piano)

Joseph Gething - Themes For Flute Book 6 (Flute & Piano)
Joseph Gething - Themes For Flute Book 6 (Flute & Piano)

£8.95

Thinking of nostalgic memories of bygone days Memories pictures someone sitting on a public bench looking out to sea. Concert Waltz represents returning from a music concert to go on to happy partying and dancing, while Haunted Dreams pictures a sleeping adult haunted by memories of the past.

Joseph Gething - Themes For Flute Book 6 (Flute & Piano)
Joseph Gething – Themes For Flute Book 6 (Flute & Piano)

£8.95

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Thinking of nostalgic memories of bygone days Memories pictures someone sitting on a public bench looking out to sea. Concert Waltz represents returning from a music concert to go on to happy partying and dancing, while Haunted Dreams pictures a sleeping adult haunted by memories of the past.

Review: "Joseph Gething’s six books each contain three pieces which are varied in style and difficulty. Pleasant tunes, yet challenging in places with cadenza-like passages covering the whole 3 octaves of the flute. The melodies vary from waltzes to a rondo and incorporate scalic virtuosic passages as well as key and tempo changes. The accompaniments are mainly straight forward and the pieces should fit together well without too much rehearsal time. The series is in six books simply to keep the cost of each book at a reasonable price and to then attract players to purchasing another if they like the music. All in all nice to have some new original music to include in a recital programme alongside mainstream repertoire as variety, and accessible for an audience with some 'light fun styles'. Probably suit a grade 7 student upwards to professional." – Dr. Rachel Smith DMA, MA, BMus (Hons), FTCL – July 2014

Review: "All six volumes of Joseph Gething's Themes for Flute, with piano accompaniment contain three pieces each. The themes appear to be original melodies and many are quite beautiful. The descriptive titles aid interpretation and these volumes are sure to provide hours of pleasure. Broadbent & Dunn are to be commended for providing an outlet for today's composers. Their publications are simple in design but easy to read and not exorbitantly priced." – Ann Cherry in Music Teacher September 2006

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Gething, Joseph

Joseph Gething began piano lessons at the age of 16 while serving an apprenticeship at a school of building. Under the excellent teaching of Raymond Skinner, who later became a Dr. of Music, he passed his Grade 8 exam in the Theory of Music and Grade 6 in Piano. He was then offered a partnership with Raymond Skinner, playing in some of his concerts. However, Joseph gave up piano lessons turning instead to composition. Several musician friends urged him to seek publication of his works, but he became a clerk of works instead. Many years later his second wife Marilyn contacted Broadbent & Dunn about music scores he had laying about in his music room at home. Prompted by the acceptance of many of his works he once more turned his hand to composition. He passed away in March 2014.

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