Frith - My Bonny Lad, Theme and Variations for Tuba and Piano there goes the neighbourhood I learned of an opportunity

I learned of an opportunity to make it sort of a thesis piece (though students didn't write a thesis in composition while an undergrad)

Reynolds calls this music "Church Polyphonic style" that came out of the late Renaissance and endured for a couple centuries into the Romantic period

5 minutes in length

Jay Hilfiger's beautiful arrangement for 10-part Brass Ensemble and Percussion (Cymbals & Side Drum) is about 3 minutes in length and appropriate for intermediate to moderately advanced performers

The march exemplifies the regimental rhythms heard with horse and rider

Frith - My Bonny Lad, Theme and Variations for Tuba and Piano there goes the neighbourhood I learned of an opportunityMy Bonny Lad is an old Northumbrian folk song first seen in a publication in 1922. The first verse of the lyrics are: Have you seen ought of my bonny lad? Are you sure he's well o? He's gone o'er lang wi' a stick in his hand, He's gone to row the keel o. Composer, John Frith has taken this beautiful folk melody and expertly crafted a "Theme and 8 Variations" of it for Tuba and Piano about 5 1 2 minutes in length and appropriate for advanced