Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.

Publication

[London] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed by H. Leonard, c2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Walters, Richard
• Matthews, Colin

Description

1 score (xxv, 237 p.) : port.; 31 cm.

Alternative Title

Complete folk song arrangements

Subjects

• Folk songs, French
• Folk songs, English
• Songs (Low voice) with piano
• Songs (Medium voice) with piano
• Songs (Medium voice) with instrumental ensemble > Scores and parts

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).
• Includes index.
• Pref., biographical and program notes (p. v-xxv).

Language (note)

• English or French words, with English translations, some with Welsh translations.

Contents

v. 1, British Isles. The Salley 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.

Call Number

JMG 07-68

LCCN

• 073999488128
• M051933754
• 9781423418184

OCLC

73316756

Author

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.

Title

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

Imprint

[London] : Boosey & Hawkes ; Milwaukee, WI : Distributed by H. Leonard, c2006.

Edition

Medium/low voice.

Language

English or French words, with English translations, some with Welsh translations.

Added Author

Walters, Richard. Editor

Matthews, Colin. Arranger

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Folk song arrangements (1976); arranged.

Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Vocal music. Selections.

Other Standard Identifier

073999488128

M051933754

9781423418184

Publisher No.

HL48018782 H. Leonard

Research Call Number

JMG 07-68