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Dear Albert:

I am working on this page, initially to tag it according to original instrumentation:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Les_Scaramouches_(Telemann,_Georg_Philipp)#IMSLP198764

Grove doesn't list anything entitled Scaramouche by Telemann but I can find at least a couple things where Scaramouche might be a movement name.

One is that I found references to a Scaramouch in Ouverture Burlesque, except that Grove lists 5 items that either have Burlesque in the title or are "à la burlesque".

Another possibility is that this particular score has at the top "Dances: 34. Scaramouche". Telemann did write some Polish Dances (though Grove says "at least 4 authentic", which means that probably most of them are someone else's work). The only problem with this is that according to Grove, there were only 31 one of them, and this is listed as the 34th.

Can you please tell me what you arranged this from?

Thanks Becky

Posted at 07:47, 6 April 2012 by Steltz (administrator)

I haven't found a record of the exact source for this piece, but it was a set of arrangements for four voices, for 48 dances (hence the number 34,) probably for recorder. It had pieces with dates indicated from at least 1529 (Attaignant) to at least 1695 (Auffschnaidter). I haven't found the exact copy I used (a number of years ago, perhaps in 1995) but I will keep looking.
--Al

Posted at 10:27, 6 April 2012 by Afolop
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