Matyas Seiber (1905-1960) was a Hungarian composer who lived and worked in the UK from 1935 until his death. He was born in Budapest and studied with Kodaly and toured the country to collect folk songs. Someof these were later published in 1949 as Three Hungarian Folk Songs with English words by the singer musicologist and self-styled ?Folklorist? A. L. Lloyd (1908-1982).Three Hungarian FolkSo…

This short suite, much inspired by Bartók's Six Romanian Folk Dances, is based on traditional dances and songs of Argentina. Although the original rhythms and melodies are often transformed by the use of contemporary techniques, the piece preserves the authentic spirit of each of these folk forms.Zamba de Vargas, a well known folk song, refers to a battle in Argentina between two armies of gauchos…

The first great American songwriter Stephen Foster's songs are now part of the American folk tradition. This collection presents 30 of his compositions plus photos and a new biography. Includes: Beautiful Dreamer · Camptown Races · Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair · My Old Kentucky Home · Oh! Susanna · Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) · more.

This new collection of folk songs - 'Laula kultani' (Finnish for 'Sing, my sweetheart') - offers choirs attractive literature to expand their repertoires and to perform concerts for many different occasions. The creative choral director has many possibilities for performing this music: thus instruments can be added, or - if there are difficulties due to pronouncing a foreign language - a small ens…

The Vocal Library High Voice-Concert arrangements for voice and piano in an art song style of 35 great folksongs from the American heritage. These interesting and expressive settings are appropriate for collegiate recitals or advanced high school singers ascontest solos. The songs range from comic to sad from rowdy to inspirational and there are selections appropriate for women and men singers. …

A genre-defying collection of songs for female vocal trio Songspin Songbook is a collaboration between Juice Vocal Ensemble and UYMP funded by an Arts Council England grant. Described as “the 21st century’s answer to the Swingles or King’s Singers” (The Times) Juice have emerged as the face of a revitalised experimental scene for vocal music. Songspin Songbook publishes …

This is the sixteenth set of an ongoing cycle of Persian folk songs the Reza Vali has been composing since 1978. The piece was written for Kian Soltani and consists of seven songs some of which are based on authentic Persian folk melodies and some are composed in the style of a folk song (imaginary folk songs). Song titles: 1. Longing 2. In Memory of a Lost Beloved 3. The Girl from Shiraz 4. L…

Collection-These songs first became known in the U.S. when Pete Seeger and a group of New York City teenagers called the Song Swappers recorded some of them for Folkways Records in 1955.In 1960 G. Schirmer published a collection ofthe songs which made it possible for choral directors and song directors to introduce their singers to this music. Long out of print the collection has now been reis…

and Popular Songs of Shakespeare's Time. Shakespeare's England comes alive once again in this delightful and much needed collection of songs. Here are the words and music for 70 songs from Hamlet, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, and several other plays, plus other popular songs of the time. Each song is chorded for gui…

Dressed In White-Thomas Simaku's Albanian Wedding Song for SSA choir.This song is part of a set published as Three Albanian Folk Songs for Female Choir. Qenke veshur me të bardha (Dressed in White - Kosova) is the most popular wedding song which is sung not only in Kosova but in every Albanian wedding.As in most folk songs these tunes are remarkably short. The melodies themselves have not been …

Flexible Woodwind Ensembl-This suite of folk songs is scored for woodwind quartet and a single unpitched drum. Although the nominal scoring is for flute two clarinets and bassoon the piece has considerable inbuilt flexibility of scoring. The options for instruments on each part are as follows: Part 1: Flute oboe or soprano saxophone Part 2: Bb Clarinet or alto saxophone Part 3: Bb clarinet a…

The songs in this collection are drawn from the rich folk music traditions from around the world. Each folk song is arranged three ways: the folk song tune by itself a two-mallet version using rolls and/or double stops and a four mallet version. The collection is ideal for beginning intermediate or even advanced mallet players who are looking for four-mallet sight reading material. The songs c…