Folk Sheet Music

Dark Eyes is a Russian Folk Song. This arrangement featuring Solo Clarinet with Concert Band includes a short cadenza and a slow highly embellished melodic section which is followed by a jazzy conclus...

Bring the exciting “twang” of the Ozark region’s most famous songs to your performance hall with this exhilarating setting of the popular fiddle tune, Arkansas Traveler. Your band will love playing th...

Cast as a pseudo-Chaconne, this set of variations on the popular tune “Amazing Grace” offers something new for your band. This new work features a prominent piano solo and accessible parts for each in...

The Ozark region has produced some of the most beautiful melodies in America. This Scottish tune that made its way to the Heartland via the Appalachian trail is no exception. This arrangement combines...

Introduce your musicians to three classic American folk songs in this masterful setting. Great opportunities to showcase both the brass and woodwind sections throughout the work.

For countless years the legendary Kitty O'Shea's, a bar at the Hilton & Towers Hotel in Chicago, has been the favourite meeting place for participants of the annual Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic. It...

Dutch composer Anthony Fiumara wrote this delightful and sentimental medley of folk songs from Naples, the birthplace of his father Antonio, to whom the suite is dedicated.

Dutch composer Anthony Fiumara wrote this delightful and sentimental medley of folk songs from Naples, the birthplace of his father Antonio, to whom the suite is dedicated.

Another exciting folk song suite based on traditional Irish songs, from the sequel of Johan de Meij's successful At Kitty O'Shea's and Songs from the Catskills.

Another exciting folk song suite based on traditional Irish songs, from the sequel of Johan de Meij's successful At Kitty O'Shea's and Songs from the Catskills.

The melodies, harmonies, moods and rhythms of Norwegian folk songs and dance (even the sounds of Norwegian folk instruments) permeate the music of Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). After studying in Leipzig a...

Flamenco is a style of music, usually played on the guitar to accompany dancing and singing, that has its home in Andalusia in southern Spain. It has its roots in the years of Moorish rule of the regi...

The four tunes used in this suite have been made universally popular in Sir Henry Wood?s Fantasia on British Sea Songs, which is an ever-present ingredient in The Last Night of the Proms. He introduce...

The Irish folk tune, which appears towards the end of the piece, is Slane, a hymn tune version of the much older folk melody The Banks of the Bann. In Prelude on an Irish Folk Tune, fragments of the f...

England enjoys a rich folk song tradition. Composers such as Cecil Sharp and Vaughan Williams rekindled an interest in this heritage at the beginning of the 20th century by arranging numerous songs, s...

Reflections on an Old Japanese Folk Song is based on the tune Suiryo-Bushi, which comes from the shamisen tradition and opens with two contrasting statements of the melody followed by several variatio...

The variation form is one of the oldest and most fundamental forms of musical technique. Franco Cesarini has chosen the well known French folk melody, Sur le pont d'Avignon as the basis for this piece...

The Cossacks played an integral part in Russia's history which finally ended with the Soviet occupation in the 1920s. Franco Cesarini had the opportunity to attend performances by an ethnic group of C...

American author Mark Twain spent seven years writing Huckleberry Finn - the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on t...

Take a musical tour of the North of Germany with sailors' music from the coastal areas combining with the authentic traditional folk music culture of the region. This colourful blend of many different...

Hot off the press! Composer Gerald Oswald bases this new work on an old Austrian folksong, O du lieber Augustin! The Augustin in questions is a ballad singer and an ad lib poet who apparently wrote th...

Kein schöner Land is surely one of the best-known of all German folk songs. The song recounts the story of a group of friends who spend a happy evening singing. The arrangement by Gerald Oswald begins...

If there's one Hebrew folk song that's known the world over, it's Hava Nagila. The title translated means 'let us be happy'. The melody of this festive song - often sung at Jewish weddings - comes ori...