Format : Score and Parts
SKU: HL.394642
UPC: 196288033028. 6.75x10.5x0.029 inches.
This beautiful Scottish Folk Song is here beautifully set with an optional classical guitar accompaniment--the piano accompaniment is modeled after a classical guitar. A QR code is provided with the music which takes you and your students to added content that includes SEL teaching resources and video from the arranger to help you identify intersections between the music and text. SEL Guidelines, Videos and Supplemental Content can be found here.
SKU: HL.44006652
ISBN 9780230009080. UPC: 884088135416. 9.0x12.0x0.129 inches. English-German-French-Dutch. Arr. Andrew Watkin Book/CD Packs.
These book/CD packs contain 22 folksongs from all over the world, including: Alouette * Dielito Lindo * Kalinka * Kumbayah * Mexican Hat Dance * De saturre su forti * Skye Boat Song * and more. The CD includes piano accompaniments as well as full performances of each tune.
SKU: AP.43214
UPC: 038081487564. English. Harold Boulton.
Like waves of an ocean carrying a boat, the lilting triple-meter of this ageless Scottish folk tune supports warm choral tones. Lush and embracing, it's a lovely ballad for concert or contest. To make it extra special, perform with the optional string orchestra accompaniment.
About Alfred Choral Designs
The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.
SKU: CY.CC2144
The Skye Boat Song, among the most popular of all Scottish folk tunes, deals with the flight of Bonnie Prince Charlie (Charles Edward Stewart) from Scotland to the Isle of Skye in 1746, after having been defeated on Culloden Moor by the English Army of King George II. The present setting, for either Tenor or Bass Trombone and Piano, is mostly lyrical and passes through a series of episodes that evoke watery images in various ways. A stormy episode which superimposes a more martial tune (relying heavily on the familiar scotch snappy rhythm) against a variation of the original folk tune leads to brief quotations from Mendelssohn's Hebrides overture (the Isle of Skye is part of the group of islands known as the Hebrides) before a short recapitulation of the theme.
SKU: CF.FAS39
ISBN 9780825863301. UPC: 798408063306. 8.5 X 11 inches. Key: D major.
Virginia Croft's experience as a string player and educator is evident in the care with which she has scored this beautiful folk tune idiomatically for young string players. Relatively easy to play, Skye Boat Song is a great opportunity to develop lyrical playing habits with a developing string group.Here is a very playable setting of a beautiful Scottish folk song. It commemorates one of the most exciting moments in Scottish history in the middle of the eighteenth century during the Jacobite Rebellion. At this time, a small group of men escaped by night in a tiny boat across the rough sea to the Isle of Skye to save the life of the young lad whom they believed to be the rightful heir to the throne of Scotland.As you play this music, can't you feel the boat rocking and the oarsmen straining at their posts against the sea? The long diminuendo from m. 51 to the end passes the final melodic fragment down through the voices until the small boat has vanished into the distance, leaving only the water.The words of the original folk song are:Speed, bonnie boat, like a bird on the wind;Hark, how the seagulls cray!Carry the lad that was born to be kindOver the sea to Skye!.