Grandfather's Folk Song
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General Info
Year: 2021
Duration: c. 4:05
Difficulty: II-1/2 (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Hawkeye Music
Cost: Score and Parts (digital) - $45.00
Instrumentation (Flexible)
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In 1929, Jimmie Rodgers released the song Waiting for a Train, which became one of the iconic songs of the great depression. My grandfather, George Thompson, was a self-taught guitar player and a humble street cleaner in the southwest Virginia mountain town of Norton. A recording was made of him playing this iconic song in 1979 by the Appleshop of Whitesburg, Ky., a preservation society of mountain tradition and music.
This grade 2.5-3 piece is a tribute to him, and the song he sang for this short video.
- Program Note by composer
Media
State Ratings
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Performances
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Works for Winds by This Composer
Adaptable Music
- Aminosque (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- CATaclysm (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Grandfather's Folk Song (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Hero's Run (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- A Southwest Virginia Portrait (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- The Stars, the Moon, and the Heavens (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
All Wind Works
- Aminosque (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- CATaclysm (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Grandfather's Folk Song (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Hero's Run (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- Planet 411 and Beyond (2020)
- A Southwest Virginia Portrait (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- The Spaceship 437 Hawkeye (2017)
- The Stars, the Moon, and the Heavens (Flex instrumentation) (2021)
- The Village of Nosufre (2018)
Resources
- "Jason Bailey." Facebook. Web. Accessed 21 January 2021