Felix Burns' Harlequinade Dance Album - Lead sheets

Felix Burns published 16 dance albums, each containing a complete evening's programme of traditional dances. The varied programmes include tunes of different moods, from light waltzes and easy saunters, to dramatic tangos, brisk military two-steps and lively Schottisches.  The dance albums usually included a country dance and ended with Sir Roger de Coverley and God Save The King.

The pieces are eminently accessible, and suitable for players looking for easy to intermediate pieces to extend their repertoire; they were originally written for piano, with other band parts separately available.  This product is a new edition of the music, edited and re-created in modern format, we do not sell scans.

A Harlequinade was an act of a pantomime, where the principal parts were played by Harlequinade and Clown; Columbine, Pantaloon and Pierrot were other traditional characters.  "Policeman X" refers to a poem by John Oxenham, published in 1898.

Please click on the links for the individual pieces to hear audio samples.

The 22 pieces in this album are:

The Green Room - Waltz
Policeman X - one or two-step
Old Drury - barn dance
The Broadway Boys - Ragtime Lancers, comprising several pieces published separately by Burns
Fairy Columbine - waltz
The Knightsbridge - military two-step
Hop 'o my Thumb - Schottische
The Harlequinade - Quadrilles, comprising traditional Irish tunes
Kansas Moon - one or two-step
The Haymarket - Veleta waltz
Pride o' the Clan - Highland Schottische
My Lady's Eyes - Waltz
The Scene Shifters - polka
College hornpipe - hornpipe
The De'il Amang the Tailors - eightsome reel
Petronella - country dance
Triumph - country dance
Country Dance Waltz
Thady, you Gander - Irish jig
Haymakers - country dance
Sir Roger de Coverley - country dance
God save the King

If you buy this product, you will be able to download a Zip file containing a separate file of sheet music (PDF) for each piece, with audio file (Midi) for each piece, as listed. 

Please note that the audio files and sample audio files on this site are generated from the sheet music; they will give you a good idea of how the tune goes, but will not necessarily capture the spirit of it. 

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