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Young persons guide to the orchestra listening map
Structure. The work is based on the Rondeau from Henry Purcell's incidental music to Aphra Behn's Abdelazer, and is structured, in accordance with the plan of the original documentary film, as a way of showing off the tone colours and capacities of the various sections of the orchestra.
There are thirteen variations: (1) flutes and piccolo, with harp accompaniment; (2) oboes; (3) clarinets; (4) bassoons; (5) violins; (6) violas; (7) cellos; (8) double basses; (9) harp; (10) horns; (11) trumpets; (12) trombones and tuba; (13) percussion. Finally, the composition ends with a new tune.
Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra was originally an educational piece meant to teach children about all of the different instruments in the orchestra.
Benjamin Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra is well known today as an orchestral showpiece and a staple of the orchestral repertoire. It was, however, originally composed as the sound track for an educational documentary made in 1945 by the Crown Film Unit for the UK Ministry of Education.