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A Catalog Of Folk Song Settings For Wind Band

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Price: $24.95, Pages: 180, Item number: 1630280JB

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.

Song Titles
All Through The Night

Amazing Grace

America The Beautiful

America The Beautiful

American Civil War Fantasy

American Faces

American Folk Fantasia

American Folk Rhapsody

American Folk Rhapsody No. 2

American Folk Rhapsody No. 4

American Folk Rhapsody No.3

American Folk Song Suite

American Folk Suite

American Patrol

American Patrol

American Salute

American Variations

Americana

Auld Lang Syne

The Battle Hymn Of The Republic

Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair

The Blue And The Gray

Chester Overture For Band

A Childhood Hymn

Chorale And Shaker Dance

Country Band March

Country Gardens

Danish Folk Music Suite

Danny Boy

Deir In De'

Dixie

Dixie Rhapsody

The Duke Of Marlborough Fanfare

Early One Morning

Emblems

English Folk Song Suite

Faeroe Island Dance

Fantasy On Barbara Allen

Five American Folksongs

Folk Songs For Band, Suite No. 1

Folk Songs For Band, Suite No. 2

Folk Suite For Band

From Shire And Sea

Fugue And Chorale On Yankee Doodle

Grace Variants

Greensleeves

Greensleeves Fantasy

Ireland

An Irish Rhapsody

Irish Suite

Irish Tune From County Derry

Jericho Rhapsody

Lincolnshire Posy

Little English Suite

Molly On The Shore

Old Home Days

Scarborough Fair

Scotch Starthspey And Reel

A Scottish Rhapsody

Sea Songs

Second Suite In F For Military Band

Shepherd's Hey

A Somerset Rhapsody

Songs Of The West

Spoon River

Stewball: Variations On An American Folk Tune

The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol

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

Themes From 'Green Bushes'

Three Folk Tunes

Two Gaelic Folk Songs

Variants On A Medieval Tune

Variations On A Shaker Melody

The Water Is Wide

Welsh Folk Suite

When Jesus Wept

Yankee Doodle

Ye Banks And Braes O'Bonnie Doon


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