Arabesque

by John Bartlett

Composed by: Claude Debussy

With acknowledgement to Isao Tomita

There is a wonderful record called "Snowflakes are Dancing" which was made by Isao Tomita using the works of Debussy. This arabesque is one of the pieces featured. I had wanted to put it into AMPLE for some time, but kept putting it off thinking that it would be a major task to translate the piano score into a suitable arrangement.

It was surprising to find that having taken the plunge, only three evenings were required. The lesson seems to be - GET ON WITH IT!

(P.S. If you haven't heard Tomita you don't know what you're missing)
 

Source: AMPLINEX M13 disk, file $.ARABESQ


Published in AMPLINEX M13, September 1989