Complete folksong arrangements : 61 songs / Benjamin Britten ; edited by Richard Walters.
| Author/creator | Britten, Benjamin |
| Format | Musical Score |
| Edition | Medium/low voice. |
| Publication Info | [London] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed by H. Leonard, ©2006. |
| Description | 1 score (xxv, 237 pages) : portrait ; 31 cm |
| Subjects |
| Other author/creator | Walters, Richard editor. |
| Other author/creator | Matthews, Colin arranger of music. |
| Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Folk song arrangements (1976); arranged. |
| Included Work | Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Vocal music. Selections. |
| Uniform title | Folk 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 ; Sally 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 note | Primarily for medium/low voice and piano; Eight folksong arrangements (1976) originally for high voice and harp, acc. arr. for piano by Colin Matthews; the penultimate song for vocal duet and piano; the final song for medium voice, violoncello ad. lib., and piano (violoncello part on p. 237). |
| General note | Includes index. |
| General note | Pref., biographical and program notes (p. v-xxv). |
| Language | English or French words, with English translations, some with Welsh translations. |
| ISBN | 1423418182 |
| ISBN | 9781423418184 |
| UPC | 073999488128 |
| ISMN | M051933754 |
| Publisher number | HL48018782 H. Leonard |