Traditional – Fauna and Flora of Japan (String Quartet Parts)

Traditional - Fauna and Flora of Japan (String Quartet Parts)
Traditional - Fauna and Flora of Japan (String Quartet Parts)

£7.95

This delightful collection of traditional Japanese folk songs, arranged by Bill Thorp, is framed by a cradle song Sleep, Baby, Sleep and was originally marked "in butterfly fashion", with the footnote "a young mother seems to flit from theme to theme in the attempt to lullaby her infant". The fauna and flora she sings of in her attempt include cranes and turtles, lotus flowers, a rabbit on the moon, foxes barking in the darkness, a poor canary, red dragonflies, tummy-drumming badgers and, of course, cherry blossoms.

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This delightful collection of traditional Japanese folk songs, arranged by Bill Thorp, is framed by a cradle song Sleep, Baby, Sleep and was originally marked "in butterfly fashion", with the footnote "a young mother seems to flit from theme to theme in the attempt to lullaby her infant". The fauna and flora she sings of in her attempt include cranes and turtles, lotus flowers, a rabbit on the moon, foxes barking in the darkness, a poor canary, red dragonflies, tummy-drumming badgers and, of course, cherry blossoms.

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Thorp, Bill

Bill Thorp, born in 1952, started arranging music, while still at school, as a member of a folk group in which he played string bass. More experience followed with a college based acoustic folk-rock bank, playing violin, viola and piano, which went on to work professionally for two years. Later, in a varied career which included performing with string quartets at some of London's pizza restaurants, he was prompted to arrange music especially for that grouping and situation. Nowadays his playing career ranges from appearing on Renaissance, Baroque and Classical Violin with most of London's period instrument groups, to odd recording sessions on country and western fiddle.

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