Coronation Day Arrangement

I’m not going to put up dots for the arrangement we tried last week as we have used the Nick Wyke and Becki Driscoll arrangement as a base and that is not mine to share! The elements we have taken from it to use this week are:

  1. a long ostinato that goes over two bars
  2. a short ostinato that cycles over three bars
  3. long notes that can also be used as in a shuffle rhythm
  4. Playing the tune in unision/octaves with no chords
  5. Playing the tune with a pedal G (tonic) underneath throughout
  6. Tune with chords as devised lat week, including a pedal D chord (dominant) that mirrors the tonic pedal that we also tried
  7. Extending the tune by repeating one phrase several times
  8. Using a chord sequence that doesn’t resolve to the tonic of G at the end of each phrase (from the long notes pattern)
  9. Book-ending the tune with intro and outro sections that are very similar
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Author: debfiddle

Deborah is a violinist and violist specialising in English folk music. She trained in viola and Baroque viola at Birmingham Conservatoire, before returning to her first love of traditional music, song and dance. Deborah has developed a passion for playing for dancing since joining her first ceilidh band at age 13. She is a member of Stepling, a band performing English music, step-dance, song and percussion, and also plays with Folk Dance Remixed, a dance company combining traditional dance with hip hop and street dance styles, with whom she has performed as such events as Car Fest, the Southbank's Festival of Love and Glasgow's Commonwealth Games Festival. Deborah records on a regular basis for a number of people, including The Mystery Fax Machine Orchestra, and for Laurel Swift's 'Travelling with Thomas' musical. She teaches music, song and dance regularly for The English Folk Dance and Song Society, as well as on a freelance basis for various workshop series, festivals and music services. Deborah recently completed The Teaching Musician MA degree course at Trinity Laban, graduating with Distinction.

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