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These dashing and piquant adaptations from
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1440:Cello suites
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1426:Cello sonata
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1414:(oboe, 1951)
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1360:Jubilate Deo
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1321:Missa Brevis
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1258:Te Deum in C
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538:White, p. 40
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1493:(1989 film)
1491:War Requiem
1245:(1932–1935)
1156:(1954) and
1135:5 Canticles
1062:War Requiem
945:Concertante
879:Sinfonietta
837:Film/Ballet
703:Paul Bunyan
488:Radio Times
1648:Categories
872:Orchestral
853:Night Mail
743:Billy Budd
436:1040035510
399:required.)
363:References
285:Tarantella
239:Canzonetta
118:tarantella
95:canzonetta
77:The Tocher
63:Background
1108:(1922–26)
910:Mont Juic
501:The Times
105:in 1935.
1635:Category
1150:(1952),
1046:Nocturne
751:Gloriana
590:Archived
563:Archived
480:Archived
462:Archived
378:"tocher"
262:yodeling
253:Tirolese
211:Analysis
154:In 1941
110:Tyrolean
1130:(1945)+
1086:Phaedra
604:Sources
318:Scoring
1502:Legacy
1475:(1953)
1467:(1941)
1448:(1975)
1428:(1961)
1398:(1945)
1392:(1941)
1380:(1931)
1363:(1961)
1355:(1974)
1347:(1968)
1339:(1966)
1331:(1962)
1323:(1959)
1317:(1955)
1309:(1950)
1301:(1943)
1293:(1944)
1285:(1942)
1277:(1942)
1269:(1938)
1261:(1934)
1253:(1933)
1234:Choral
1226:(1975)
1218:(1969)
1210:(1965)
1202:(1965)
1194:(1958)
1186:(1957)
1178:(1954)
1170:(1947)
1162:(1971)
1124:(1945)
1116:(1940)
1089:(1975)
1081:(1969)
1073:(1963)
1065:(1961)
1057:(1959)
1049:(1958)
1041:(1949)
1033:(1948)
1025:(1943)
1017:(1939)
1009:(1937)
1001:(1936)
982:(1963)
968:(1939)
937:(1946)
929:(1941)
921:(1940)
913:(1937)
905:(1937)
897:(1937)
889:(1934)
881:(1932)
864:(1956)
856:(1936)
848:(1931)
829:(1968)
821:(1966)
813:(1964)
794:(1973)
786:(1971)
778:(1960)
770:(1958)
762:(1954)
754:(1953)
746:(1951)
738:(1949)
730:(1947)
722:(1946)
714:(1945)
706:(1941)
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434:
271:Bolero
188:Soirée
99:bolero
1097:Vocal
393:
339:Notes
219:March
206:Music
190:, by
38:suite
635:ISBN
616:ISBN
432:OCLC
93:: a
296:in
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1144:,
574:^
552:^
486:,
453:,
442:^
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657:v
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