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Band
A Catalog Of Folk Song Settings For Wind Band
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$24.95, 180 pages, Item number 1630280AQ




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Product Format: Reference Book

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. This product has been chosen as a Director's Choice by our staff of instructors. This product has a difficulty rating of on a scale of 1 to 6 with 6 being the hardest.



Songs Included In This Product
Amazing Grace - Composed by: Ticheli - Song Popularity: 1214

Yankee Doodle - Composed by: Gould - Song Popularity: 826

Auld Lang Syne - Composed by: Stubbs - Song Popularity: 804

Greensleeves - Composed by: Reed - Song Popularity: 793

All Through The Night - Composed by: Nestico - Song Popularity: 557

Scarborough Fair - Composed by: Langford - Song Popularity: 476

Danny Boy - Composed by: Barker - Song Popularity: 308

America The Beautiful - Composed by: Dragon - Song Popularity: 287

America The Beautiful - Composed by: Claude T. Smith - Song Popularity: 287

American Patrol - Composed by: F.W. Meacham - Song Popularity: 244

American Patrol - Composed by: Miller - Song Popularity: 244

Country Gardens - Composed by: Grainger - Song Popularity: 164

Dixie - Composed by: Gould - Song Popularity: 164

Early One Morning - Composed by: Grainger and Kreines - Song Popularity: 98

Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - Composed by: Curnow - Song Popularity: 78

Shepherd's Hey - Composed by: Grainger - Song Popularity: 74

The Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Composed by: Ringwald - Song Popularity: 69

The Water Is Wide - Composed by: Claude T. Smith - Song Popularity: 53

When Jesus Wept - Composed by: Schuman - Song Popularity: 20

Molly On The Shore - Composed by: Grainger - Song Popularity: 17

American Salute - Composed by: Gould - Song Popularity: 14

Irish Tune From County Derry - Composed by: Grainger - Song Popularity: 14

Americana - Composed by: Zaninelli - Song Popularity: 9

Ye Banks And Braes O'Bonnie Doon - Composed by: Grainger - Song Popularity: 8

Sea Songs - Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams - Song Popularity: 7

Spoon River - Composed by: Grainger and Glenn Cliffe Bainum - Song Popularity: 6

The Blue And The Gray - Composed by: Grundman - Song Popularity: 4

Country Band March - Composed by: Sinclair - Song Popularity: 4

The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol - Composed by: Grainger - Song Popularity: 4

Ireland - Composed by: Barker - Song Popularity: 3

American Civil War Fantasy - Composed by: Bilik - Song Popularity: 2

American Folk Fantasia - Composed by: Huckeby - Song Popularity: 2

Emblems - Composed by: Copland - Song Popularity: 2

Variations On A Shaker Melody - Composed by: Copland - Song Popularity: 2

American Folk Suite - Composed by: Curnow - Song Popularity: 1

Chester Overture For Band - Composed by: Schuman - Song Popularity: 1

A Childhood Hymn - Composed by: Holsinger - Song Popularity: 1

Chorale And Shaker Dance - Composed by: Zdechlik - Song Popularity: 1

The Duke Of Marlborough Fanfare - Composed by: Grainger - Song Popularity: 1

English Folk Song Suite - Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams - Song Popularity: 1

Faeroe Island Dance - Composed by: Grainger - Song Popularity: 1

Greensleeves Fantasy - Composed by: Balent - Song Popularity: 1

An Irish Rhapsody - Composed by: Grundman - Song Popularity: 1

A Somerset Rhapsody - Composed by: Holst and Grundman - Song Popularity: 1

Songs Of The West - Composed by: Holst and Curnow - Song Popularity: 1

Variants On A Medieval Tune - Composed by: Norman Dello Joio - Song Popularity: 1

American Faces - Composed by: Holsinger

American Folk Rhapsody - Composed by: Grundman

American Folk Rhapsody No. 2 - Composed by: Grundman

American Folk Rhapsody No.3 - Composed by: Grundman

American Folk Rhapsody No. 4 - Composed by: Grundman

American Folk Song Suite - Composed by: Frackenpohl

American Variations - Composed by: Bilik

Danish Folk Music Suite - Composed by: Kreines

Deir In De' - Composed by: Barker

Dixie Rhapsody - Composed by: Leidzen

Fantasy On Barbara Allen - Composed by: Allen

Five American Folksongs - Composed by: Siegmeister

Folk Songs For Band, Suite No. 1 - Composed by: Stanhope

Folk Songs For Band, Suite No. 2

Folk Suite For Band - Composed by: William Grant Still

From Shire And Sea - Composed by: Davis

Fugue And Chorale On Yankee Doodle - Composed by: Thompson and Erickson

Grace Variants - Composed by: Zdechlik

Irish Suite - Composed by: Cray

Jericho Rhapsody - Composed by: Gould

Lincolnshire Posy - Composed by: Grainger

Little English Suite - Composed by: Grundman

Old Home Days - Composed by: Ives

Scotch Starthspey And Reel - Composed by: Grainger and Osmon

A Scottish Rhapsody - Composed by: Grundman

Second Suite In F For Military Band - Composed by: Holst

Stewball: Variations On An American Folk Tune - Composed by: Kubic

A Symphonic Prelude On: Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - Composed by: Reed

Themes From 'Green Bushes' - Composed by: Grainger

Three Folk Tunes - Composed by: Holst

Two Gaelic Folk Songs - Composed by: Tyra

Welsh Folk Suite - Composed by: Davis


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