Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

Stephen Foster

Stephen Foster (arr. Roger Harvey)

General Info

Year: 1854 / 1990
Duration: c. 2:40
Difficulty: V (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Song
Publisher: Brass Wind Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - £18.75

Instrumentation

Full Score
Solo Trombone
B-flat Trumpet I-II-III-IV
Horn in F
Trombone I-II-III
Tuba

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This arrangement gives a chance for the solo trombone to display his/her skills as a sensitive player of a beautiful ballad. Although it works perfectly well as written, an accomplished improviser may wish to embellish the melody in his own way.

- Program Note from publisher

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair is a parlor song by Stephen Foster (1826–1864). It was published by Firth, Pond & Co. of New York in 1854. Foster wrote the song with his estranged wife Jane McDowell in mind. The lyrics allude to a permanent separation.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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• University of Kansas (Lawrence) Concert Brass and Percussion (Tom Davoren, conductor) - 20 November 2020

Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Foster Songs Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger)
• Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Syler) (1854/2020)

All Wind Works

• Beautiful Dreamer
• Fantastic Foster (arr. Harnsberger) (2010)
• Foster Songs Fantasy (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Goto)
• Gentle Annie (arr. Baller)
• Hard Times Come Again No More (Flex instrumentation) (arr. Syler) (1854/2020)
• Jeanie (1854)
• Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (arr. Harvey) (1854/1990)
• My Old Kentucky Home
• My Old Kentucky Home (arr. Cowherd) (1853/1984)
• My Old Kentucky Home (arr. Pottag) (1853/1941)
• Old Folks at Home
• Slumber, My Darling (arr. Karrick) (1862/2004)
• Slumber, My Darling (arr. Windham) (1862/2001)
• Stephen Foster Revisited (arr. Holcombe) (1991)
• Stephen Foster Songbook (arr. Bulla) (1999)
• Swanee River
• Tribute to Stephen Foster, A (arr. Nestico) (1968)
• Variations on "My Old Kentucky Home" (arr. Ito) (1852/2010)
• Way Down upon the Swanee Ribber (arr. Safranek) (1914)

Resources

• Foster, S.; Harvey, R. (1990). Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair: Arranged in Ten Parts[score]. Brass Wind Publications: [Manton, Eng.].
• Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair, Wikipedia Accessed 29 November 2020