Gustav Holst - Folksongs of Hampshire England . In the early 1900's there was great interest in collecting and preserving the folk songs of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Equipped with their newly invented recording devices, people such as Cecil Sharp, Charles Stanford, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Gustav Holst would travel into the country-side to record, or notate songs being sung. They would frequently use these songs in their own compositions. Holst's music in particular is filled with those songs and his two suites for band are especially valued by wind bands around the world. This group of four songs was arranged for voice and piano by Holst and set for woodwind choir by John Gibson. The songs are 1. Young Edwin in the Lowlands Low 2. Bedlam City 3. The Irish Girl 4. Young Reilly. The instrumentation is the standard group of woodwinds found in a band piece: piccolo, flutes. oboes, bassoons, clarinets, bass clarinets, alto and tenor saxes, and baritone sax.

Volume 2 of our Christmas collection (the "Red Book") contains ten more classic Christmas carols that both you and your audience are sure to love. Be sure to also check out Volumes 1 and 3, each with 10 different carols! This arrangement is for woodwind choir (flute 1/2, oboe, bassoon 1/2, Bb clarinet 1/2/3, alto clarinet, bass clarinet, alto sax 1/2, tenor sax 1/2, baritone sax). All parts are doubled in another instrument, so if you are missing an instrument it will still work fine. Other arrangements of these carols, as well as two other volumes of Christmas carols, are available at the publisher link above or at www.customchambermusic.com. The carols included in Volume 2 are: I Saw Three Ships Angels We Have Heard on High Away in a Manger (Cradle Song) Deck the Halls Good Christian Men Rejoice (In Dulci Jubilo) Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming O Little Town of Bethlehem (Forest Green) The First Noel Hark! The Herald Angels Sing O Holy Night