Choral SSATB Chorus

SKU: CF.CM9569

For jilted lovers everywhere. Composed by English Ballad. Arranged by Ian Loeppky. Mjts. Performance Score. With Standard notation. 16 pages. Duration 3 minutes, 37 seconds. Carl Fischer Music #CM9569. Published by Carl Fischer Music (CF.CM9569).

ISBN 9781491153680. UPC: 680160911189. 6.75 x 10.5 inches. Key: Gb minor. English. English Ballad.

An old English ballad, Scarborough Fair relates the tale of a jilted maiden who instructs her listener to tell her former lover that she will have him back after he performs a series of impossible tasks: making a shirt without a seam, washing it .
An old English ballad, Scarborough Fair relates the tale of a jilted maiden who instructs her listener to tell her former lover that she will have him back after he performs a series of impossible tasks: making a shirt without a seam, washing it in a dry well, to name a few. A modern equivalent might be when pigs fly. Keep it light and bring out the differing accents in the meters, especially the dotted quarter notes. While there is no percussion part written in the score, we had a djembe player play along to bring out the various accents. Feel free to add your own as well. Have fun!.
An old English ballad, Scarborough Fair relates the tale of a jilted maiden who instructs her listener to tell her former lover that she will have him back after he performs a series of impossible tasks: making a shirt without a seam, washing it in a dry well, to name a few. A modern equivalent might be when pigs fly.Keep it light and bring out the differing accents in the meters, especially the dotted quarter notes. While there is no percussion part written in the score,  we had a djembe player play along to bring out the various accents.  Feel free to add your own as well. Have fun!

By Henry Cowell (1897-1965). For Choral (SSATBB). Peermusic Classical. 12 pages. Peermusic #60091-133. Published by Peermusic

By Gwyneth W. Walker. Text: Traditional, American Folksong. For SSATBB Choir, Flute. (Mixed Voices). Secular. Choral. Published by E.C. Schirmer Publishing.