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




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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
All Through The Night - Composed by: Sammy Nestico - ©1964

Amazing Grace - Composed by: Ticheli - ©1994

America The Beautiful - Composed by: Carmen Dragon - ©1963

America The Beautiful - Composed by: Claude T. Smith - ©1991

American Civil War Fantasy - Composed by: Jerry Bilik - ©1961

American Faces - Composed by: David Holsinger - ©1995

American Folk Fantasia - Composed by: Ed Huckeby - ©1995

American Folk Rhapsody - Composed by: Clare Grundman

American Folk Rhapsody No. 2 - Composed by: Clare Grundman - ©1995

American Folk Rhapsody No.3 - Composed by: Clare Grundman - ©1970

American Folk Rhapsody No. 4 - Composed by: Clare Grundman - ©1977

American Folk Song Suite - Composed by: Arthur Frackenpohl - ©1973

American Folk Suite - Composed by: James Curnow - ©1988

American Patrol - Composed by: F.W. Meacham - ©1917

American Patrol - Composed by: Glenn Miller - ©1975

American Salute - Composed by: Morton Gould - ©1943

American Variations - Composed by: Jerry Bilik - ©1970

Americana - Composed by: Luigi Zaninelli - ©1975

Auld Lang Syne - Composed by: Duncan Stubbs - ©1992

The Battle Hymn Of The Republic - Composed by: Ringwald - ©1956

Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - Composed by: James Curnow - ©1985

The Blue And The Gray - Composed by: Clare Grundman - ©1961

Chester Overture For Band - Composed by: William Schuman - ©1957

A Childhood Hymn - Composed by: David Holsinger - ©1991

Chorale And Shaker Dance - Composed by: John Zdechlik - ©1972

Country Band March - Composed by: James Sinclair - ©1974

Country Gardens - Composed by: Percy Grainger - ©1990

Danish Folk Music Suite - Composed by: Joseph Kreines - ©1981

Danny Boy - Composed by: Warren Barker - ©1991

Deir In De' - Composed by: Warren Barker - ©1990

Dixie - Composed by: Morton Gould - ©1962

Dixie Rhapsody - Composed by: Erik Leidzen - ©1941

The Duke Of Marlborough Fanfare - Composed by: Percy Grainger - ©1939

Early One Morning - Composed by: Percy Grainger and Joseph Kreines - ©1980

English Folk Song Suite - Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams - ©1924

Emblems - Composed by: Aaron Copland - ©1965

Faeroe Island Dance - Composed by: Percy Grainger - ©1954

Fantasy On Barbara Allen - Composed by: Fred Allen - ©1993

Five American Folksongs - Composed by: Elie Siegmeister - ©1949

Folk Songs For Band, Suite No. 1 - Composed by: David Stanhope - ©1989

Folk Songs For Band, Suite No. 2 - ©1991

Folk Suite For Band - Composed by: William Grant Still - ©1994

From Shire And Sea - Composed by: Albert Davis - ©1966

Fugue And Chorale On Yankee Doodle - Composed by: Virgil Thompson and Frank Erickson - ©1971

Grace Variants - Composed by: John Zdechlik - ©1973

Greensleeves - Composed by: Alfred Reed - ©1961

Greensleeves Fantasy - Composed by: Andrew Balent - ©1993

Ireland - Composed by: Warren Barker - ©1997

An Irish Rhapsody - Composed by: Clare Grundman - ©1973

Irish Suite - Composed by: Robert Cray - ©1985

Irish Tune From County Derry - Composed by: Percy Grainger - ©1948

Jericho Rhapsody - Composed by: Morton Gould - ©1941

Lincolnshire Posy - Composed by: Percy Grainger - ©1991

Little English Suite - Composed by: Clare Grundman - ©1960

Molly On The Shore - Composed by: Percy Grainger - ©1920

Old Home Days - Composed by: Charles Ives - ©1979

Scarborough Fair - Composed by: Gordon Langford - ©1991

Scotch Starthspey And Reel - Composed by: Percy Grainger and Leroy Osmon - ©1982

A Scottish Rhapsody - Composed by: Clare Grundman - ©1981

Sea Songs - Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams - ©1924

Second Suite In F For Military Band - Composed by: Gustav Holst - ©1922

Shepherd's Hey - Composed by: Percy Grainger - ©1918

A Somerset Rhapsody - Composed by: Gustav Holst and Clare Grundman - ©1980

Songs Of The West - Composed by: Gustav Holst and James Curnow - ©1986

Spoon River - Composed by: Percy Grainger and Glenn Cliffe Bainum - ©1967

Stewball: Variations On An American Folk Tune - Composed by: Gail Kubic - ©1942

The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol - Composed by: Percy Grainger - ©1961

A Symphonic Prelude On: Black Is The Color Of My True Love's Hair - Composed by: Alfred Reed - ©1963

Themes From 'Green Bushes' - Composed by: Percy Grainger - ©1994

Three Folk Tunes - Composed by: Gustav Holst - ©1924

Two Gaelic Folk Songs - Composed by: Thomas Tyra - ©1964

Variants On A Medieval Tune - Composed by: Norman Dello Joio - ©1963

Variations On A Shaker Melody - Composed by: Aaron Copland - ©1960

The Water Is Wide - Composed by: Claude T. Smith - ©1992

Welsh Folk Suite - Composed by: Albert Davis - ©1958

When Jesus Wept - Composed by: William Schuman - ©1957

Yankee Doodle - Composed by: Morton Gould - ©1958

Ye Banks And Braes O'Bonnie Doon - Composed by: Percy Grainger - ©1936


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