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- Piccola Suite Italiana (Italian Folk Song Trilogy) Concert Band Level 3 Composed by Franco Cesarini
- With this new suite for concert band Franco Cesarini draws on the rich repertoire of folk songs from the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of northern Italy
- Between the 16th and 17th Century this rural region developed the furlana, a brilliant dance in 6/8 time
- This catchy dance soon spread throughout Europe and became more cultivated
- François Couperin (1668-1733), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) and Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) all composers of the 18th century composed furlane and in the 20th Century Maurice Ravel used a?furlana dance his Tombeau de Couperin