String Ensemble,String Trio Cello,Violin - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.961701 Arranged by Gary Arrington. Celtic,Folk. Score and parts. 4 pages. Gary Hobart Arrington #6063387. Published by Gary Hobart Arrington (A0.961701). The story of the song is largely true. James MacPherson was an outlaw in the North East of Scotland, one of the travelling people and the leader of a band of robbers. MacPherson was caught in Keith and hanged at the Cross of Banff on 16 November 1700. MacPherson was a fine fiddler, and he composed this tune the night before he was hanged and played it on the scaffold. Then he offered to give his fiddle to anyone who would play the tune at his wake. No-one would, so he smashed the fiddle. Anyone who had accepted it would have shown themselves to be a relative or friend of his and so liable to arrest themselves.The song is also known as 'MacPherson's Farewell'. Robert Burns rewrote the song, but these are the traditional lyrics. The tune is very popular amongst Scottish fiddlers.The pieces of MacPherson’s fiddle are displayed in the MacPherson Clan House Museum in Newtonmore.

String Trio Cello,Violin - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1465010 Composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. Arranged by Iris Kao. Baroque,Chamber,Classical. 5 pages. Iris Kao Music #1043709. Published by Iris Kao Music (A0.1465010). The Allemande from Bach's French Suite No. 2 can best be described as hauntingly beautiful. Veins of melancholy flow through the entire piece, as if lamenting something that has long past. Faint scents of joy occasionally appear, yet are immediately swallowed by swells of deep nostalgia and regret. It is not until the very final chord do we see some hope; a light at the end of the tunnel, at the end of it all. No note in the entire movement is difficult to play, yet a convincing performance requires more than accurate fingerwork, but rather a heart capable of resonance with the human condition.I have not included any fingerings, tempo or expressive markings on the sheet music. Interpretation is left up to the players (or instructor), as Bach does in most of his works.