Arnold - Sonatina for Clarinet and Wind Band, op. 29 *Lemione whose melody replaces running quavers

whose melody replaces running quavers with dotted rhythms

The music seems suspended in time

titled ‘Siesta’ is lazy and languid rising to an impassioned climax in the middle of the movement

As the material is developed it becomes more abstract until an angry outburst seems to settle the score giving way to a return of the more optimistic sounding sections heard earlier

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Arnold - Sonatina for Clarinet and Wind Band, op. 29 *Lemione whose melody replaces running quaversEnglish composer Malcolm Arnold wrote this compact sonatina in 1951 and it has since become one of his most popular instrumental works. As always with Arnold, it is impeccably crafted: the first movement, with it's wide leaps, the occasional incursion of a six eight bar into the prevailing four four, and the lightest of jazzy touches, lives up to its marking of Allegro con brio; while the second demonstates Arnold's love at this period of a gentle