Pete Seeger
If I Had a Hammer
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Pete Seeger
If I Had a Hammer
- Instrumentation Mixed Choir (SATB) and Piano
- Composer Pete Seeger
- Editor Craig Hella Johnson
- Edition Piano Score
- Publisher Hal Leonard
- Order no. 00368408
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Description:
Craig Hella Johnson has become well known for 'outside the box' programming, composing and arranging. Here is another great example. This folk song written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays in 1949 in support of the Progressive movement and later made popular by Peter, Paul and Mary is here arranged with a driving motif 'If I Had A Hammer' by SATB divisi chorus. Hand percussion underpins this motif and the melody floats above. A powerful video of this by Conspirare lives on YouTube.