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The Girl With the Flaxen Hair

La Fille Aux Cheveux de Lin 

Music by Claude Debussy
Arranged by Steve Winstead

Grade 3
Duration 2:00

Composed in 1910 as a movement from his first book of Préludes for piano, La fille aux cheveux de lin is a short but gorgeous and flowing work featuring one of Debussy's most famous impressionist melodies.

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Each of the five parts is available in multiple transpositions, for nearly any type of ensemble you can put together. Options are sufficient for a woodwind quintet, sax quintet, string quintet, brass quintet, clarinet choir, and many other combinations. Available transpositions are as follows:

• Part 1
• C - Flute, Oboe, Violin
• B-Flat - Clarinet, Trumpet, Soprano Saxophone
• Part 2
• C - Oboe, Violin
• E-flat - Alto Saxophone
• B-Flat - Clarinet, Trumpet
• Part 3
• Viola
• E-flat - Alto Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
• B-Flat - Clarinet, Trumpet
• B-Flat 8va - Tenor Saxophone
• F - English Horn, French Horn
• Part 4
• Bass Clef - Cello, Bassoon, Trombone, Euphonium
• B-Flat 8va - Bass Clarinet, Treble Clef Baritone, Tenor Saxophone
• E-Flat - Alto Clarinet
• E-Flat 8va - Baritone Saxophone
• F - French Horn
• Part 5
• Bass  Clef - Cello, Bassoon, Trombone, Euphonium
• Tuba
• Bass Clef 8va - String Bass, Contrabassoon
• B-Flat 8va - Bass Clarinet
• E-Flat 8va - Baritone Saxophone