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Folksong arrangements / Benjamin Britten ; guitar arrangement by Julian Bream.

Author/creator Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976
Format Musical Score and Print
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Boosey and Hawkes, ©1943-1961.
Description6 volumes ; 31 cm.
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorBream, Julian, arranger.
Other author/creatorSharp, Cecil J. (Cecil James), 1859-1924 collector.
Other author/creatorCarey, Henry, 1687?-1743 lyricist.
Other author/creatorBurns, Robert, lyricist.
Other author/creatorYeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939, lyricist.
Other author/creatorRogers, Iris, translator.
Other author/creatorShield, William, 1748-1829, composer.
Other author/creatorHammond, H. E. D. (Henry Edward Denison), 1866-1910, collector.
Other author/creatorVaughan Williams, Ralph, 1872-1958, collector.
Other author/creatorWhittaker, W. G. (William Gillies), 1876-1944, collector.
Other author/creatorMoeran, E. J. (Ernest John), 1894-1950, collector, arranger.
Series Wesleyan music collection
Contents V. 1. British Isles -- V. 2. France -- V. 3. British Isles -- V. 4. Moore's Irish melodies -- V. 5. British Isles -- V. 6. England.
Contents V. 1. The Salley Gardens / Words by W.B. Yeats -- Little Sir William -- The bonny Earl o' Moray -- O can ye sew cushions -- The trees they grow so high -- The ash grove -- Oliver Cromwell.
Contents V. 2. La Noël passée = The orphan and King Henry / English translations by Iris Rogers -- Voici le Printemps = Hear the voice of spring -- Fileuse -- Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse = The king is gone a-hunting -- La belle est au jardin d'amour = Beauty in love's garden -- Il est quelqu'un sur terre = There's someone in my fancy -- Eho! Eho! -- Quand j'étais chez mon père = Heigh ho, heigh hi!.
Contents V. 3. The plough boy / Tune by W. Shield -- There's none to soothe -- Sweet Polly Oliver -- The miller of Dee -- The foggy, foggy dew -- O waly, waly -- Come you not from Newcastle.
Contents V. 4. 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.
Contents V. 5. The brisk young widow / Words and melody collected by Cecil Sharp -- Sally in our alley / Words by Henry Carey -- The Lincolnshire poacher -- Early one morning -- Ca' the yowes / Words by Robert Burns.
Contents Vol. 6: England. I will give my love an apple / Words and melody from "Folk songs for schools" ; collected and arranged by H.E.D. Hammond and R. Vaughan Willilams -- Sailor-boy / Words and melody from "Seventeen nursery songs from the Appalachian Mountains" (under the title 'Soldier boy') ; collected and arranged by Cecil J. Sharp -- Master Kilby / Words and melody from "Folk songs for schools" ; collected and arranged by Cecil J. Sharp -- The soldier and the sailor / Collected by Cecil J. Sharp -- Bonny at morn / Words and melody from "North Country folk songs" by W.G. Whittaker -- The shooting of his dear / Words and melody from "Six folk songs from Norfolk" ; collected and arranged by E.J. Moeran.
General noteFor medium voice and piano.
General noteVolume 6 is for high voice and guitar.
LanguageEnglish and French texts.
Publisher numberH. 15760 Boosey and Hawkes
Publisher numberB. & H. 16168 Boosey and Hawkes
Publisher numberB. & H. 16412 Boosey and Hawkes
Publisher numberB. & H. 18578 Boosey and Hawkes
Publisher numberB. & H. 18704 Boosey and Hawkes
Publisher numberB. & H. 18814 Boosey and Hawkes

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