English Folk Tunes

A lively and wide-ranging collection of great tunes from all around England, suitable for playing on piano accordion, melodeon and other squeezeboxes!

Included are many well-established favourites for dance bands and informal sessions, plus some lesser-known gems and recent compositions. Reels, jigs, hornpipes and slow airs drawn from the 17th Century to the present day, with chord suggestions, background information on the tunes and detailed guidance on how to get the best out of this vibrant music. / Musiques du monde / Partition CD / Agrafé /

62 Traditional Pieces for Descant (Soprano) Recorder-English Folk Tunes For Recorder contains 62 traditional songs arranged for the descant (soprano) Recorder.Suitable for players at a grade 3-8 level this book features pieces in a range of styles including ballads hornpipes jigs and more.Experienced Recorder player and author Peter Bowman (The Baroque Recorder Anthology Fun And Games With The Recorder) provides notes on all of the styles and individual pieces covered. This volume is also accompanied by a CD with a recording of all the tunes performed by Kathryn Bennetts.English Folk Tunes For Recorder includes the songsPortsmouth Scarborough Fair Greensleeves Early One Morning Here We Come A-Wassailing and more.

32 Traditional Pieces-English Folk Tunes presents a collection of beautiful pieces for solo Piano drawn from the rich tradition of English folk music. Experienced author and arranger Barrie Carson-Turner provides notes on all of the pieces explaining their background and history.The volume is accompanied by a CD with a recording of all tunes. German and French translations of all texts are available as pdf downloads from the Schott Music website. Suitable for players of grades 3-8.Part of the best selling World Music series which also includes music from England Ireland Scotland Eastern Europe America Argentina India China and Korea.

A set of Jazzy Saxophone Trios based on four English folk tunes including: Widecome Fair and English Country Garden. Arranged by Duncan Stubbs and suitable for players of grade 5-6 standard.

Piano students of Latin American heritage often do not relate to the folk tunes that most methods use because the majority of those melodies do not flow with the rhythm of the Spanish language. This method is based on melodiesoriginal to the Mexican culture. These children's songs flow more naturally with the language and in accord with the Kodály method of music education give a better foundation for teaching basic musical elements in aSpanish language culture. Coupled with constant work on sight-reading this new method is a valuable tool for native Spanish speakers in learning to play the piano and will serve as a helpful and interesting supplement to Englishspeaking students. Muchas veces los alumnos de piano de herencia latina no se identifican con la música folklórica utilizado en los métodos de piano porque la mayoría de las melodías no fluyencon el ritmo del español. Este método está basado en melodías originales de la cultura mexicana. Estos cantos de niños fluyen con más naturalidad con el idioma y de acuerdo almétodo Kodály de la educación musical dan un mejor fundamento para la enseñanza de elementos musicales básicos en una cultura de habla hispana. Junto con un trabajo constante de la lectura aprimera vista este nuevo método es un instrumento valioso para que aquellos cuya lengua materna es el español aprendan a tocar el piano con más facilidad y servirá como un suplemento benéfico einteresante a los estudiantes de habla inglesa.

Classical Guitar Tunes - English Folk Songs. This book presents 42 English folk songs arranged for the intermediate classic guitarist in standard notation with phrase and dynamic markings plus light fingering. The collection includes popular melodies like Sprig of Thyme, Seventeen Come Sunday, and Blow the Wind Southerly, but also lesser known but no less beautiful tunes like Cupid the Pretty Ploughboy, Dabbling in the Dew and Saucy Sailor. All the arrangements present the basic tune faithfully and simply before offering more elaborate and sophisticated variations suitable for concert performance. Without compromising their sophistication, these polyphonic arrangements are elegant and idiomatic to the guitar, all but devoid of excessive physical demands; even barré chords are kept to a minimum so the player can relax and focus on tone and interpretation. The primary objective of this collection is to draw attention to these deserving melodies, some of which are now rarely heard. Longtime fans of the genre will recognize a few songs once performed by folk-rock groups like Steeleye Span and The Fairport Convention, here presented anew for the solo classic guitar. ?It?s an excellent collection - good to play for pleasure, good for learning and consolidating rhythm, good for sight-reading. Just marvelous. It should meet a lot of needs. Gilbert Biberian. ?These are very accessible arrangements of 42 English folk tunes, some of which are familiar and many others which deserve to be better known. They are all tuneful and have interesting harmonies and rhythms in arrangements which will be well within the reach of intermediate guitarists. These fine settings would be useful pieces for a teacher looking for supplementary material and also for the performer looking for unhackneyed repertoire. They are thoughtfully presented with good fingering and phrasing, with idiomatic guitar writing and interesting harmonies. Congratulations to Peter Worley for presenting this compendium of gems from a lesser known tradition.? Gerald Garcia

26 Traditional Pieces-Irish Folk Tunes For Guitar is a collection of arrangements of traditional and contemporary tunes including jigs reels airs and more. Most of the pieces are arranged for solo Guitar with several also offered with accompaniments. Experienced folk guitarist and author of Scottish Folk Tunes for Guitar (ED 13359) and English Folk Tunes for Guitar (ED 13491) Hugh Burns provides notes on all of the pieces as well as playing tips and technical advice. The volume is accompanied by a CD with a recording of all tunes performed by Hugh. German and French translations of all texts are available as pdf downloads from the Schott Music website. Suitable forplayers of grades 3-8.

63 Traditional Pieces. Par BOWMAN PETER. Irish Folk Tunes for Descant Recorder is a collection of 63 arrangements for descant recorder, of traditional tunes including a range of styles such as Reels, Hornpipes, Jigs and more. Experienced recorder player and co-author of English Folk Tunes for Descant Recorder, the Baroque Recorder Anthology series, and Fun and Games with the Recorder series amongst others, Peter Bowman provides notes on all of the styles covered, as well as individual pieces. German and French translations of all texts are available as pdf downloads from the Schott Music website. Suitable for players of grades 3-8. The volume contains recordings for download in order to get a sound impression of the stylistic and technical features of the pieces. / Niveau : Facile / Recueil / Flûte à Bec

30 Traditional Pieces-English Folk Songs contains 30 traditional tunes in arrangements for 1 or 2 Voices and Piano that are suitable for musicians at a grade 3-8 level. Put together by the highly regarded singer and arranger Philip Lawson this volume contains well known songs such as Ash Grove and Scarborough Fair as well as many lesser known pieces. English Folk Songs is accompanied by a CD containing recordings of all of the featured pieces performed by Philip and Sophie Lawson.