Rag Tag and Bobtail - Dalmaine, Cyril - Piano Solo

Solo piano pieces inspired by the Middle Ages. Beggars, minstrels and cheap-jacks flock from town to town - often to the dismay of the inhabitants. Suggested grade 1-2

Contents

• A Piper Played
• Scissors to Grind
• Buy My Balloons
• Lollipop Stall
• Robbers Are Out
• Gipsy Lullaby
• The Snake Charmer
• Ragamuffin Tune
• Doctor Kilorkure
• Cheap Jach
• Rough and Tumble
• Seven-Foot Giant
• Trounbadour's Serenade
• Whistling Tom
• The Procession Passes
• The Town Sleeps

Composer and critic Cyril Carr Dalmaine graduated from the Royal College of Music and was Music master at Uppington School before going on to become chorus master to the BBC. He is most famous for coining the term 'Lord Haw-Haw' in his work as radio critic of the Daily Express under the pseudonym Jonah Barrington, in reference to the Nazi propaganda broadcasts of William Joyce during the Second World War.

Dalmaine was also a record presenter in the pre-1955 days and responsible for the 'discovery' of the then deceased Italian tenor, Alessandro Valente, giving Valente enjoyed a considerable posthumous vogue. As a composer Dalmaine wrote chamber music, and transcribed the cantatas of J.S. Bach to piano as well as a wide range of piano and string works published by Forsyth. His works such as Variations from Versailles and Pathway to the Proms remain in print and are well worth re-discovering, while his arrangements of popular classics in our Silhouette Series remain best sellers.