Benjamin Britten: Complete Folksong Arrangements for High Voice | 61-Song Vocal Sheet Music for High Voice and Piano | Folk Settings for Singers Teachers and Accompanists | Edited by Richard Walters Paperback – August 1, 2006

Composer Benjamin Britten brings traditional melodies to life in Complete Folksong Arrangements for High Voice, a collection of 61 folk settings for high voice and piano. Created for singers and teachers, this edition supports performance.Edited by Richard Walters, the volume combines the seven previously published books into one collection, with songs in newly available transpositions. The pieces from Volume 6-originally for voice and guitar-have been transcribed for voice and piano.Britten’s arrangements blend lyricism with refined harmonic color, offering repertoire suited to recital and studio use.Song List The Ash Grove * At the mid hour of night * Avenging and bright * Bird Scarer's Song * Bonny at morn (1976) * Bonny at morn (volume 6) * The Bonny Earl o' Moray * The Brisk Young Widow * Ca' the yowes * Come you not from Newcastle? * The Crocodile * David of the White Rock * The Deaf Woman's Courtship * Dear harp of my country * Dink's Song * Early one morning * Eho! Eho! * The False Knight upon the Road * Fileuse * The Foggy, Foggy Dew * Greensleeves * The Holly and the Ivy * How sweet the answer * I was lonely and forlorn * I will give my love an apple * I wonder as I wander * Il est quelqu'en sur terre * La belle est au jardin d'amour * La Noel passee * The last rose of summer * Le roi s'en va-t'en chasse * Lemady * The Lincolnshire Poacher * Little Sir William * Lord! I married me a wife * Master Kilby * The Miller of Dee * The Minstrel Boy * O can ye sew cushions * O the sight entrancing * O Waly, Waly * Oft in the stilly night * Oliver Cromwell * The Plough Boy * Pray goody * Quand j'etais chez mon pere * Rich and rare * Sail on, sail on * Sailor-boy * The Salley Gardens * Sally in our alley * She's like the swallow * The Shooting of His Dear * The Soldier and the Sailor * Soldier, won't you marry me? * The Stream in the Valley * Sweet Polly Oliver * There's none to soothe * Tom Bowling * The trees they grow so high * Voici le printemps Read more