Composer:	V. Freedley	Suppliers:
Editor:	Geoff Grainger	Quintet	A/T/T/B/GB(B)
Publisher:	Ditty Box Enterprises	Publication:	DBE 772

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Length: approx. 2¾ mins. Sounds best with the bass doubled.
The Madagascar Mangle is a fine tootling rag which in this adaptation for recorder quintet allows the lead voices to demonstrate their virtuosity with the contrasting melodies. It has the form of ABBCCA with an 8-bar interlude between CC- and A-strains and is written in the recorder beginners favourite key of C-major. The cover of the original sheet music in tasteful dark pastel colours shows a line of presumably Malagasy spear-waving inhabitants prancing before an enormous tropical moon no doubt either in celebrating or preparation for a spot of mangling - whether their washing or fellow human beings is left to the interpreter!
The Madagascar Mangle was published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York & Detroit, USA.
A tempo of 80 crotchets/min. is suggested.