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CHADWICK SISTEMPY’S STORY, FROM 10 LITTLE TUNES FOR 10 LITTLE FRIENDS

Key C major Tempo Alla zoppa (in syncopated style) Style Late-Romantic

Will improve yourRhythmArticulationPedalling

was written by the American Late-Romantic composer George W Chadwick (1854-1931). He was a member of the Boston Six, also known as the Second New England School, – a group of composers based in New England and acknowledged by many as being pivotal in developing an idiomatic American

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