Water Music
Georg Friedrich Händel / Stefan Taupe (arrangement)
Festive Music – from the very beginning
Content and score samples: Allegro · Alla Hornpipe · Rigaudon · Lentement · Bourrée · Menuet I · Andante · Menuet II

This edition combines the most popular movements of Handel's Water Music. It includes all movements from the Suite in D, as well as 3 additional movements from the Suite in G. This edition is modified in such a way, that a beginner's orchestra or even a string section alone can master it. The strings play without exception in the 1st position. The 3rd part has been put to violin-key as well as viola-key.

Additional wind players may include 2 parts each in C (flute or oboe) and in B-flat (clarinet and 2nd clarinet / trumpet), one part in F / E-flat (French horn / alto saxophone), as well as one bass part in C for bassoon or trombone. The simplified thorough-bass is put for either harpsichord or piano.

... Above all, Handel's Water Music was received with great enthusiasm, because in the arrangement of Stefan Taupe it really is ideally suited for students ... The technical standards are manageable and the arrangement is organized in such a way that it meets the varying capabilities of a school orchestra in many ways. And it mediates above all one thing: the joy of making music together.

H.-P. Vogel, Ignaz-Günther-Gymnasium, Rosenheim (Germany)

	string section	TM 1161 score, harpsichord, je 3 x VI I, VI II, VI III + Va, Vc / Cb	67,-	114,-
	symphonic orchestra	TM 1163 like TM 1161; winds respectively 2 x C I / II, B-flat I / II, 1 x F (Es), 1 x C IV (wie Cello)	89,-	152,-