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“Nelly Shed”
music by
EDWARD ELGAR
written 1878
for
2 Flutes, Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon
This work is a single Allegro movement, longer and more ambitious than his first Harmony
Music. Elgar gave it the nickname “Nelly Shed” for Helen Weaver, to whom he was to
become engaged a few years later.
Assembled from the parts by John Morrison
Flute 1
Flute 2
Oboe
Clarinet in Bb
Bassoon
5
10
Harmony Music No.2 3
A
15
cresc.
20
25
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
4 Harmony Music No.2
B
30
35
40
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
Harmony Music No.2 5
45
50
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
55
dim.
dim.
6 Harmony Music No.2
60
67
73
Harmony Music No.2 7
78
1.
83
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
2.
88
8 Harmony Music No.2
93
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
98
103
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
Harmony Music No.2 9
108
113
118
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
10 Harmony Music No.2
E
123
128
133
Harmony Music No.2 11
138
143
F
148
12 Harmony Music No.2
154
160
166
Harmony Music No.2 13
172
178
G
14 Harmony Music No.2
188
193
dim.
dim.
Harmony Music No.2 15
Tempo
H I.
203
rall.
rall.
rall.
rall.
rall.
213
16 Harmony Music No.2
218
223
I
228
Harmony Music No.2 17
233
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.
238
243
248
253 J
260
Harmony Music No.2 19
267
272
cresc.
277
cresc.
cresc.
cresc.