Music for the Royal Fireworks May in the Foundling Hospital. Handel noted in the score that the violins were to play the oboe parts, the cellos and double basses the bassoon part, and the violas either a lower wind or bass part. The instruments from the original band instrumentation play all the movements in the revised orchestral edition except the "Bourrée" and the first "Menuet", which are played by the oboes, bassoons, and strings alone. There are many recordings. Handel's "Water Music", although it was composed more than thirty years earlier, is often paired with the "Music for the Royal Fireworks" as both were written
Water Music (novel) an effort to find and explore the Niger River. The novel is loosely based on historical sources, including Mungo Park's 1799 book, "Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa". However, as Boyle admits in his foreword to "Water Music", he does not claim historical accuracy or even faithfulness to the contemporary accounts, whose reliability is doubtful anyway. Water Music (novel) Water Music is the first novel by T. C. Boyle, first published in 1981. It is a semi-fictional historical adventure novel that is set in the late 18th and early 19th century. The novel follows the parallel adventures and intertwining