Complete folksong arrangements : 61 songs /

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Author / Creator:Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Uniform title:Folk song arrangements (1943-1961), v. 1-6
Edition:High voice.
Imprint:[London] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, WI : distributed by H. Leonard Corp., c2006.
Description:1 score (xxv, 237 p.) : port. ; 31 cm.
Language:English
French
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Format: Music score Print
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6113694
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Varying Form of Title:Complete folk song arrangements
Other uniform titles:Walters, Richard.
Matthews, Colin.
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Folk song arrangements (1976); arr.
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Vocal music. Selections.
Notes:Primarily for high voice and piano; Eight folksong arrangements (1976) originally for high voice and harp, acc. arr. for piano by Colin Matthews; the final song for high voice, violoncello ad. lib., and piano.
Pref., biographical and program notes (p. v-xxv)
English or French words, with English translations, some with Welsh translations.
Standard no.:M051933747
Publisher's no.:HL48018781 H. Leonard Corp.
Table of Contents:
  • v. 1. British isles. The Salley gardens ; Little Sir William ; The bonny Earl o' Moray ; O can ye sew cushions? ; The trees they grow so high ; The ash grove ; Oliver Cromwell
  • v. 2. France. La Noël passée ; Voici le printemps ; Fileuse ; Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse ; La belle est au jardin d'amour ; Il est quelqu'un sur terre ; Eho! Eho! ; Quand j'étais chez mon père
  • v. 3. British isles. The plough boy ; There's none to soothe ; Sweet Polly Oliver ; The miller of dee ; The foggy, foggy dew ; O waly, waly ; Come you not from Newcastle?
  • v. 4. Moore's Irish melodies. Avenging and bright ; Sail on, sail on ; How sweet the answer ; The minstrel boy ; At the mid hour of night ; Rich and rare ; Dear harp of my country! ; Oft in the stilly night ; The last rose of summer ; O the sight entrancing
  • v. 5. British isles. The brisk young widow ; Salley in our alley ; The Lincolnshire poacher ; Early one morning ; Ca' the yowes
  • v. 6. England. I will give my love an apple ; Sailor-boy ; Master Kilby ; The soldier and the sailor ; Bonny at morn ; The shooting of his dear
  • Eight folksong arrangements (1976). Lord! I married me a wife ; She's like the swallow ; Lemady ; Bonny at morn ; I was lonely and forlorn ; David of the white rock ; The false knight upon the road ; Bird scarer's song
  • Tom Bowling and other song arrangements. Tom Bowling ; The crocodile ; Dink's song ; Greensleeves ; The holly and the ivy ; I wonder as I wander ; Pray goody ; The deaf woman's courtship ; Soldier, won't you marry me? ; The stream in the valley.