Bourée from Water Music
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The English Concert, on period instruments. Trevor Pinnock, conductor.
Composer: George Frideric Handel
Composition: Bourée from Water Music
Date: 1717
Genre: stylized dance movement from a suite
Form: Binary form, AABB, performed here three times; B is twice as long as A
Performing Forces: Baroque orchestra: according to the musical score, 2 trumpets, 2 horns, 2 oboes, 1 bassoons, 1st violins, 2nd violins, violas, cello, and basso continuo (the cellos play the same music as the bassoon)
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