Complete folksong arrangements : 61 songs / Benjamin Britten ; edited by Richard Walters.

Author/creator Britten, Benjamin
Format Musical Score
EditionHigh voice.
Publication Info[London] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed by H. Leonard, ©2006.
Description1 score (xxv, 237 pages) : portrait ; 31 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorWalters, Richard editor.
Other author/creatorMatthews, Colin arranger of music.
Included WorkBritten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Folk song arrangements (1976); arranged.
Included WorkBritten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Vocal music. Selections.
Uniform titleFolk song arrangements (1943-1961), v. 1-6
Variant title Complete folk song arrangements
Contents v. 1. British isles. The Salley gardens [Sally 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.
General notePrimarily 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 (violoncello part on p. 237).
General noteIncludes song index.
General notePref., biographical and program notes (p. v-xxv)
LanguageEnglish or French words, with English translations, some with Welsh translations.
ISBN9781423418177
UPC 073999234619
ISMN M051933747
Publisher numberHL48018781 H. Leonard

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