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Turn, Turn, Turn
Pete Seeger (arr. Roger Emerson)
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Subtitle: To Everything There Is a Season
General Info
Year: 1950s / 1965
Duration:
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Original Medium: Folk song
Publisher: Unknown
Cost: Score and Parts - Unknown
Instrumentation
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Errata
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Program Notes
Turn! Turn! Turn!, or Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season), is a song written by Pete Seeger in the late 1950s and first recorded in 1959. The lyrics – except for the title, which is repeated throughout the song, and the final two lines – consist of the first eight verses of the third chapter of the biblical Book of Ecclesiastes.
The song became an international hit in late 1965 when it was adapted by the American folk rock group the Byrds.
The lyrics are taken almost verbatim from the Book of Ecclesiastes, as found in the King James Version (1611) of the Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8), though the sequence of the words was rearranged for the song. Ecclesiastes is traditionally ascribed to King Solomon who would have written it in the 10th century BC, but believed by a significant group of biblical scholars to date much later, up to the third century BC.
The Biblical text posits there being a time and place for all things: laughter and sorrow, healing and killing, war and peace, and so on. The lines are open to myriad interpretations, but Seeger's song presents them as a plea for world peace because of the closing line: "a time for peace, I swear it's not too late." This line and the title phrase "Turn! Turn! Turn!" are the only parts of the lyric written by Seeger himself. The song is notable for being one of a few instances in popular music in which a large portion of the Bible is set to music.
- Program Note from Wikipedia
Media
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State Ratings
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Performances
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- University of South Florida (Tampa) Symphonic Band (Marc S. Sosnowchek, conductor) – 26 November 2019
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Turn, Turn, Turn (arr. Emerson) (1965)
- Turn! Turn! Turn! (arr. Cofield) (1973)
- We Shall Overcome (1973)
Resources
- Turn! Turn! Turn!, Wikipedia Accessed 26 November 2019