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A Catalog Of Folk Song Settings For Wind Band

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$24.95, Item 1630280HP, 180 pages



This  superb  book  is  a  fascinating  volume  that  discusses  the  folk  songs  used  in  seventy-nine  of  the  greatest  concert  band  works  of  all  time.  Each  of  the  seventy-nine  band  works  contains  at  least  one  folk  tune,  and  some  of  the  band  pieces  contain  a  number  of  folk  tunes.
 
Each  tune  presented  in  this  book  includes:  1)  the  historical  background  of  the  tune;  2)  the  melody  line  of  the  tune;  and  3)  the  lyrics  of  the  tune.  With  this  book  in  your  library,  you'll  be  able  to  research  and  understand  the  band  pieces  you  perform  or  conduct,  and  will  be  able  to  better  interpret  the  literature  as  you  and  your  group  perform  the  pieces.

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Amazing Grace - Composed by: Ticheli - Copyright 1994
Greensleeves - Composed by: Alfred Reed - Copyright 1961
Yankee Doodle - Composed by: Morton Gould - Copyright 1958
Auld Lang Syne - Composed by: Duncan Stubbs - Copyright 1992
All Through The Night - Composed by: Sammy Nestico - Copyright 1964
Scarborough Fair - Composed by: Gordon Langford - Copyright 1991
Danny Boy - Composed by: Warren Barker - Copyright 1991
America The Beautiful - Composed by: Carmen Dragon - Copyright 1963
America The Beautiful - Composed by: Claude T. Smith - Copyright 1991
American Patrol - Composed by: F.W. Meacham - Copyright 1917
American Patrol - Composed by: Glenn Miller - Copyright 1975
Dixie - Composed by: Morton Gould - Copyright 1962
Country Gardens - Composed by: Percy Grainger - Copyright 1990
Early One Morning - Composed by: Percy Grainger and Joseph Kreines - Copyright 1980
Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - Composed by: James Curnow - Copyright 1985
Shepherd's Hey - Composed by: Percy Grainger - Copyright 1918
The Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Composed by: Ringwald - Copyright 1956
The Water Is Wide - Composed by: Claude T. Smith - Copyright 1992
When Jesus Wept - Composed by: William Schuman - Copyright 1957
Molly On The Shore - Composed by: Percy Grainger - Copyright 1920
American Salute - Composed by: Morton Gould - Copyright 1943
Irish Tune From County Derry - Composed by: Percy Grainger - Copyright 1948
Spoon River - Composed by: Percy Grainger and Glenn Cliffe Bainum - Copyright 1967
Americana - Composed by: Luigi Zaninelli - Copyright 1975
Ireland - Composed by: Warren Barker - Copyright 1997
Ye Banks And Braes O'Bonnie Doon - Composed by: Percy Grainger - Copyright 1936
Sea Songs - Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams - Copyright 1924
The Blue And The Gray - Composed by: Clare Grundman - Copyright 1961
Country Band March - Composed by: James Sinclair - Copyright 1974
An Irish Rhapsody - Composed by: Clare Grundman - Copyright 1973
The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol - Composed by: Percy Grainger - Copyright 1961
American Folk Rhapsody No. 2 - Composed by: Clare Grundman - Copyright 1995
American Civil War Fantasy - Composed by: Jerry Bilik - Copyright 1961
American Folk Fantasia - Composed by: Ed Huckeby - Copyright 1995
Emblems - Composed by: Aaron Copland - Copyright 1965
Variations On A Shaker Melody - Composed by: Aaron Copland - Copyright 1960
American Folk Suite - Composed by: James Curnow - Copyright 1988
Chester Overture For Band - Composed by: William Schuman - Copyright 1957
A Childhood Hymn - Composed by: David Holsinger - Copyright 1991
Chorale And Shaker Dance - Composed by: John Zdechlik - Copyright 1972
The Duke Of Marlborough Fanfare - Composed by: Percy Grainger - Copyright 1939
English Folk Song Suite - Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams - Copyright 1924
Faeroe Island Dance - Composed by: Percy Grainger - Copyright 1954
Greensleeves Fantasy - Composed by: Andrew Balent - Copyright 1993
Second Suite In F For Military Band - Composed by: Gustav Holst - Copyright 1922
A Somerset Rhapsody - Composed by: Gustav Holst and Clare Grundman - Copyright 1980
Songs Of The West - Composed by: Gustav Holst and James Curnow - Copyright 1986
Variants On A Medieval Tune - Composed by: Norman Dello Joio - Copyright 1963
American Faces - Composed by: David Holsinger - Copyright 1995
American Folk Rhapsody - Composed by: Clare Grundman
American Folk Rhapsody No.3 - Composed by: Clare Grundman - Copyright 1970
American Folk Rhapsody No. 4 - Composed by: Clare Grundman - Copyright 1977
American Folk Song Suite - Composed by: Arthur Frackenpohl - Copyright 1973
American Variations - Composed by: Jerry Bilik - Copyright 1970
Danish Folk Music Suite - Composed by: Joseph Kreines - Copyright 1981
Deir In De' - Composed by: Warren Barker - Copyright 1990
Dixie Rhapsody - Composed by: Erik Leidzen - Copyright 1941
Fantasy On Barbara Allen - Composed by: Fred Allen - Copyright 1993
Five American Folksongs - Composed by: Elie Siegmeister - Copyright 1949
Folk Songs For Band, Suite No. 1 - Composed by: David Stanhope - Copyright 1989
Folk Songs For Band, Suite No. 2 - Copyright 1991
Folk Suite For Band - Composed by: William Grant Still - Copyright 1994
From Shire And Sea - Composed by: Albert Davis - Copyright 1966
Fugue And Chorale On Yankee Doodle - Composed by: Virgil Thompson and Frank Erickson - Copyright 1971
Grace Variants - Composed by: John Zdechlik - Copyright 1973
Irish Suite - Composed by: Robert Cray - Copyright 1985
Jericho Rhapsody - Composed by: Morton Gould - Copyright 1941
Lincolnshire Posy - Composed by: Percy Grainger - Copyright 1991
Little English Suite - Composed by: Clare Grundman - Copyright 1960
Old Home Days - Composed by: Charles Ives - Copyright 1979
Scotch Starthspey And Reel - Composed by: Percy Grainger and Leroy Osmon - Copyright 1982
A Scottish Rhapsody - Composed by: Clare Grundman - Copyright 1981
Stewball: Variations On An American Folk Tune - Composed by: Gail Kubic - Copyright 1942
A Symphonic Prelude On: Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - Composed by: Alfred Reed - Copyright 1963
Themes From 'Green Bushes' - Composed by: Percy Grainger - Copyright 1994
Three Folk Tunes - Composed by: Gustav Holst - Copyright 1924
Two Gaelic Folk Songs - Composed by: Thomas Tyra - Copyright 1964
Welsh Folk Suite - Composed by: Albert Davis - Copyright 1958

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