Kingsfold

David Marlatt

Traditional English folk song arranged by David Marlatt

General Info

Year: 2009 / 2014
Duration: c. 5:20
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Eighth Note Publications
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $50.00

Instrumentation (Flexible)

Full Score
Part 1

• Flute
• Oboe
• B-flat Soprano Clarinet
• E-flat Alto Saxophone
• B-flat Trumpet
• Violin

Part 2

• Oboe
• B-flat Soprano Clarinet
• E-flat Alto Saxophone
• B-flat Trumpet
• Violin

Part 3

• B-flat Soprano Clarinet
• E-flat Alto Saxophone
• B-flat Tenor Saxophone
• B-flat Trumpet
• F Horn
• Viola

Part 4

• Bassoon
• B-flat Tenor Saxophone
• Trombone
• Euphonium T.C.
• Euphonium B.C.
• Cello

Part 5

• Bassoon
• B-flat Bass Clarinet
• E-flat Baritone Saxophone
• Trombone
• Euphonium T.C.
• Euphonium B.C.
• Tuba
• String Bass

Timpani
Percussion, including:

• Bells
• Chimes
• Crash Cymbals
• Snare Drum
• Suspended Cymbal
• Tom-Toms, low

Errata

None discovered thus far.

Program Notes

This beautiful folk song has been used as the melody for several popular hymns including: I Heard the Voice of Jesus Say, O Sing a Song of Bethleheim, I Feel the Winds of God Today and several others. It is a beautiful work that seems to float along both melodically and harmonically.

This arrangement is opened by a solo voice with a sense of a lone player on the top of a hill surrounded by mist. The tune is then played in full quartet voicing leading to other variations and rescorings, ending, as it began, very peacefully and reflectively.

- Program Note from publisher

Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus is a work for harp and string orchestra by Ralph Vaughan Williams. The composition is based on the folk tune Dives and Lazarus, one of the folk songs quoted in Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite.

The folk tune was also arranged by Vaughan Williams as a hymn tune Kingsfold, appearing as O Sing a Song of Bethlehem, in The English Hymnal as I Heard the Voice of Jesus say, (no. 574 in the original 1906 edition). The village of Kingsfold is in West Sussex, a few miles south from Vaughan Williams' home at Leith Hill.

- Program Note from Wikipedia

Performance Notes

Can be played by a minimum of five wind/string players. Percussion parts are not required but add a lot to the overall ensemble sound.

Media

• Audio: Reference recording. Ensemble and conductor unknown

State Ratings

None discovered thus far.

Performances

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Works for Winds by This Composer

Adaptable Music

• Abide with Me (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1861/2014)
• Canzon per Sonare No. 4 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (c. 1597/2012)
• Chinese Dragon Parade (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Ding Dong Merrily on High (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2014)
• Early One Morning (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2008/2014)
• For Those Who Have Served (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Hail the Conquering Hero (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1746/2008/2014)
• The Journey of Invention (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2014)
• The King's Parade (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2019)
• Kingsfold (Flex instrumentation) ((as arranger) 2009/2014)
• Puck and Elfin Dance (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Ripples in the Sand (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2014)
• Siyahamba (Flex instrumentation) (2002/2014)
• Spring (Flex instrumentation) (2008/2020)
• Three Renaissance Madrigals (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2000/2012)
• The Uprising (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)

All Wind Works

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• Ancient Airs and Dances (as arranger) (2008)
• Battle with the Frost Giants. See: The Hammer of Asgard
• Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 (as arranger) (1721/2011)
• Canzon per Sonare No. 4 (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (c. 1597/2012)
• Carnival of Venice (as editor; arr. Staigers) (1936/2009)
• Chinese Dragon Parade (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Click (2018)
• Concert Etude, Op 49 (as arranger)
• Concerto from "L'Estero armonico" (as arranger) (1711/2016)
• Concerto for Two Piccolos (as arranger) (1728/2017)
• Dance Suite (as arranger) (c. 1612/2017)
• Ding Dong Merrily on High (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2014)
• Down Wilderness Road (2018)
• Early One Morning (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2008/2014)
• Earthscape (2011/2015)
• Fanfare (as arranger) (1912/1927/2007)
• Firescape (2019)
• For Those Who Have Served (Flex instrumentation) (2020)
• Grand Chorus and Dialogue (as arranger) (1881/1998)
• Gypsy Rondo (as arranger)
• Hail the Conquering Hero (as arranger) (1746/2008)
• Hail the Conquering Hero (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (1746/2008/2014)
• The Hall of Valhalla. See: The Hammer of Asgard
• The Hammer of Asgard (2018)
  • Thor and Loki (2018)
  • The Hall of Valhalla (2018)
  • Battle with the Frost Giants (2018)
• The Hammer of Asgard (Brass and percussion) (2018)
  • Thor and Loki (Brass and percussion) (2018)
  • The Hall of Valhalla (Brass and percussion) (2018)
  • Battle with the Frost Giants (Brass and percussion) (2018)
• Jig Fugue (as arranger) (2003)
• The Journey of Invention (Flex instrumentation) (2009/2014)
• The King's Parade (Flex instrumentation) (2017/2019)
• Kingsfold (Flex instrumentation) ((as arranger) 2009/2014)
• La Virgin de la Macarena (as arranger) (as arranger) (2006)
• Let There Be One Nation (2018)
• O Magnum Mysterium (Marlatt) (as arranger)
• Pine Ridge Rag (as arranger) (1998/2019)
• Prayer and Alleluia (as arranger) (1868/2009)
• Puck and Elfin Dance (Flex instrumentation) (as arranger) (2020)
• Ripples in the Sand (Flex instrumentation) (2007/2014)
• Shaped by Time (2014)
• Side Partners (as arranger)
• Silent Night (as arranger)
• Siyahamba (Flex instrumentation) (2002/2014)
• Spring (Flex instrumentation) (2008/2020)
• Sunset over Blue Water (2019)
• Susato Dance Suite (as arranger)
• Thor and Loki. See: The Hammer of Asgard (2018)
• The Uprising (2016)
• The Uprising (Flex instrumentation) (2016/2020)
• The Valley of the Kings (2010)
• Wassail, Wassail All Over Town (as arranger) (2011)
• Windscape (2010)
• A World Away (2014)
• Ye Merry Gents (2007)

Resources

• Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, Wikipedia Accessed 25 June 2020
• Marlatt, D. (2009). Kingsfold [score]. Eighth Note Publications: [Markham, Ont.].
• Perusal score