Free sheet music
Sheldon, DerekDerek Sheldon
United Kingdom United Kingdom
49 sheet music
58 MP3
All sheet music

Sheet music menu:
Composers
Members Historic All

"For more than 20 years, we have been facilitating legal access to free sheet music. If you appreciate and use Free-scores.com, please consider making a donation."

About / Member testimonies





A Sheep Fair

A Sheep Fair
words by Thomas Hardy
Derek Sheldon


Lead sheet (with lyrics)
Skill :
Rate :

ViewDownload PDF : A Sheep Fair - voice and guitar - low D whistle - Thomas Hardy - D Sheldon - PDF (3 pages - 78.46 Ko)36x
Log in or sign up for free
and participate in the Free-scores.com community :






assign an heart (and thus participate in improving the relevance of the ranking)
leave your comment
notate the skill level of this score
add this score to your library
add your audio or video interpretation







Download MP3 : A Sheep Fair - voice and guitar - low D whistle - Thomas Hardy - D Sheldon - mp3 5x 59x
Composer
Arranger
Publisher
Derek Sheldon
Derek Sheldon (1956 - )
Instrumentation

Lead sheet (with lyrics)

Style

Folk

KeyA minor
Date2023
CopyrightCreative Commons Licence
Thomas Hardy's poem describes the autumn fair at Pummery (Poundbury). Thousands of sheep are auctioned, but in torrential rain. In the third verse, the fair is many years in the past, and the poet looks back to reconsider the whole event. My new music sets the evocative poem as a song. It includes a melody for the low D whistle to give an interlude before the last verse.
Added by dereksheldon, 07 Oct 2023

Shop Suggestions Next
Comment (1)



By cdavis64davis , at 05:04
cdavis64davis

You certainly captured the gloom. Very nice vocal.
dereksheldon Owner , 09 Oct 2023 at 18:12
Thanks for your nice comment. The tune actually came to me as I was reading the poem, so I felt obliged to complete it! An enjoyable experience.
Was this review helpful? Yes (18)   No (10)
Report problem