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Claude Debussy composed his popular Children’s Corner Suite between 1906 and 1908. Its popularity has continued through to the present day, largely due to the many arrangements for a wide array of ensembles, including orchestra, it has inspired.  This particular arrangement for recorder consort is of the last movement of the suite, which is full of ragtime syncopations and banjo-like effects. A cakewalk was a mid-19th-century African American two-step dance. The B section of this particular dance is interrupted on several occasions by the love-death leitmotif of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde, marked “avec une grande émotion” (with great feeling). Each quotation is followed with banjo imitations. The dynamic range of this arrangement is quite large and very effective.

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