Make your solo guitar sound like an ensemble with this complete guide to bass runs and how to use them! Renowned guitarist and celebrated tutor Happy Traum takes a handful of traditional songs and shows you how to add 'walking' bass parts and bring your chord playing to life. Learn the notes of a scale in several keys and apply them between chords to create a smooth harmonic transition and an effe…

Elegant and simple this traditional Chinese folk song about the Jasmine flower has been arranged by Jill Gallina. A graceful flute part floats delicately above the piano accompaniment. A translation and pronunciation guide isincluded within the choral. “Mò Li Hua” is a strong multicultural selection for programs and festivals.

Paperback-Vaughan Williams fist encountered the old English folk song Dives and Lazarus when he was 21 and here presents five variants that are in his own words 'not exact replicas of traditional tunes but rather reminiscences of various versions in my own collection and those of others'.The work was premiered in Carnegie Hall as part of the 1939 New York World's Fair and is a wonderful exampl…

Bela Bartok is renowned for his settings of Folk music and these eight improvisation pieces are based around traditional Hungarian melodies. This version is the revised corrected edition the extant sources and the existing edition having been compared again in full. For Solo Piano.

Polynesian Folk Song-Here's a traditional canoe song from Polynesia that sounds quite impressive with a cappella voices handclaps and percussion instruments. The call-and-response format of Greg's well-designed arrangement suggest people communicating from canoe to canoe as they travel between islands.

SATTBB-Originating as a traditional Tyne River Shanty for the transport of coal this sturdy tune will fit well in a program of folk music with a steady rowing motion in the vocal accompaniment and a dancelike melody that passes among the voice parts for textural interest. Duration: ca. 1:50.

Irish Carol-From the traditional Irish folk hymnThis is a lively fun arrangement great for Jr. high or high school choirs

Here is a super collection of 172 songs for children Nursery rhymes folk tunes spirituals show tunes traditional melodies - all the favourites! They are all in child-friendly keys the accompaniments are easy to play andthere are historical notes about the origins of songs and some of the peculiar words. For the teacher who wishes to keep singing at the heart of their school as recommended b…

A two-part arrangement by Ruth Elaine Schram of this traditional Welsh folk melody.

Par WAIGNEIN ANDRE. Roland Kernen has developed a true fascination for the traditional music scene and for Celtic folk music in particular. The Celts fed on a rich blend of legend and myth which is skillfully portrayed in Celtic Gathering. This lyrical piece embraces two musical atmospheres. The first melodic line, written in a minor key, expresses the cheerful character of a group dance, whilst t…