Folksong Festival
General Info
Year: 2017
Duration: c. 7:25
Difficulty: III-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Neil A. Kjos
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $65.00 | Score Only (print) - $7.00
Instrumentation
Full Score
C Piccolo
Flute I-II
Oboe
Bassoon
B-flat Soprano Clarinet I-II-III
B-flat Bass Clarinet
E-flat Alto Saxophone I-II
B-flat Tenor Saxophone
E-flat Baritone Saxophone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III
Horn in F
Trombone I-II
Euphonium
Tuba
Timpani
Percussion, including:
- Bass Drum
- Bells
- Castanets
- Chimes
- Crash Cymbals
- Marimba
- Snare Drum
- Suspended Cymbal
- Tambourine
- Temple Blocks
- Triangle
- Vibraphone
- Xylophone
Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
This medley of folksongs is equal parts Italian and Irish. The work begins with the well-known Irish folksongs The Girl I Let Behind Me; No One Can Love Like an Irishman; The Galway Piper; and the unmistakable Irish Washerwoman. The arrangement then moves to a slow and reverent treatment of the Italian melody The Fair Maid of Sorrento and closes with the rousing, exciting, and immensely popular Italian folksongs Tarantella and Funiculi, Funicula.
- Program Note from publisher
Commissioned by the Springfield Local Schools Band Boosters, Holland, Ohio. In celebration of their band director, Kathleen A. McGrady, for her 33 years of dedication to the profession of music education.
- Program Note from score
Media
State Ratings
None discovered thus far.
Performances
To submit a performance please join The Wind Repertory Project
- Band Camp for Adult Musicians (Meadville, Penn.) (Timothy Foley, conductor) – 18 June 2017
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- City at Dusk (2019)
- A Copland Portrait (as transcriber) (1999/2015)
- Deadline (2012)
- Enchanted (2008)
- Evocation (2016)
- Fanfare: A Vision and a Dream (2013)
- Fanfare for the Centennial (2011)
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- Folksong Festival (2016)
- Godspeed, John Glenn (2018)
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (as arranger) (1944/2023)
- Home Days (2017)
- I Hate Music! (as arranger) (1943/)
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- Legacy Fanfare (2017)
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- Oh, Henry! (2012)
- Pompeii Unearthed (2009)
- Pressure (2007)
- Princess Leia's Theme (as transcriber, with Lavender) (1977/)
- Ragtime (as arranger) (1997/)
- Shipwrecked (2010)
- Sleep Cycle (arr. Nunmer)
- Song of Remembrance (2011)
- Song of Solace (2023)
- Starburst (as transcriber) (2010/2018)
- Steadfast Overture (2006)
- Suite from "Band of Brothers" (as arranger)
- Synergy Rising (2010)
- Throne Room and Finale (as transcriber, with Lavender) (1977/)
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- A Tribute to Bing Crosby (as arranger)
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