English Folk Song Suite by Ralph Vaughan Williams
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Boosey & Hawkes British Band Classics - Level 4
Considered an integral part of the core literature for concert bands, this masterwork by Ralph Vaughan Williams has stood the test of time and continues to receive numerous performances on a yearly basis. This new printing features a newly engraved and carefully edited full score (with F Horns in F, and measure numbers to aid in rehearsals) along with matching parts. A must for all libraries!
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Play this to tell a band student from anyone else.
If they start singing 12 days of Christmas, you've got your answer.
Forte Piano omg that was all I could hear when I heard it lol
OMG! I have been listening and playing this piece for over 40 years (yes, 40) and this is the first time I heard the "12 Days of Christmas" verse in there.
Same
Me and the trombone I sit next to and started humming 12 days of Christmas after playing this for the first time😂
Speaking of Christmas, 8:17 reminds me of "Prepare the Way, O Zion".
its so cool how half the band is in 2/4 and the other half is in 6/8
Ikr? It's awesome how that works out.
I think it stops being cool when you have to conduct
No, not really, I think it'd just be a matter of the conductor beating in 2.
Thats my favorite part
You can either count it in 6/8 or count them as triplets in 2/4. Either way, the conductor conducts in 2, and no one in the audience is any the wiser.
1:09 as a trombone, i have never been more excited to play a piece of music
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I feel you trombone brother
Same dude
just yes haha
As a tuba, which only gets to play whole notes and never gets melody, I'm very pleased
i'm playing piccolo for this and obviously ralph williams hated all piccolo players because he wrote a 42 measure rest and then a solo. i mean come on my instrument cools down in that time!
I feel you... I officially hate war-horse songs
Us trombones always have the longest rests, but thank God we don't have solo parts afterwards, or anywhere at all really...
Then there's the ridiculous amount of trumpet solos with barely any break, leaving us to get completely tired out by the end, which has the most trumpet-focused solo. Fun.
+Theodore Thomas I was just commenting on the music. Of course I did that but it doesn't keep the instrument as fresh as playing it would. Please don't pretend you know the limitations of my instrument better than I do.
+Theodore Thomas Honestly you're the one being the know-it-all here. Nobody asked for your input, and anyway my initial comment was a humorous statement that clearly went over your head. I'm sorry though that I have less musical training than you and clearly am not able to feel comfortable with this type of music when I am currently at a high school level. I'm sorry you seem so arrogant to think that telling people not to jokingly complain on CZcams will get any positive results. For better responses to your helpful criticisms, please try reading what you wrote before posting. Peace
0:00 Mvt 1
0:36 Clarinet Solo
1:09 Trombone
2:18 Clarinet Solo
2:51 Repetition
3:29 Mvt 2
5:43 Faster
6:27 Slower
7:46 Mvt 3
8:45 Forte
8:57 Morricone, Forte, Morricone
9:45 Forte
Ur a hero
I remember a gal in HS played the flute part solo for us in a test. There was dead silence, it was the most impeccable performance I heard as a young person from another teen. Lovely piece. You know you're living in Covid 19 times when you start looking up sheet music from 30+ years ago.
omg i loved that part too i played this last year for top band in varsity i loved all the woodwind parts i play baritone but when they would have woodwind sectionals i would stay and listen because the beginning and the 3rd movement beginning sound sooo amazing
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As a clarinet player, this is one of my favorite pieces, even though the 6/8 in the first movement kills me @120 bpm. This and Lincolnshire Posey are my favorites of alllll time
Played both of those in middle school great pieces
Yeah! I love this piece as a clarinet player as well!
Ah the memories, I miss band
Yeah, working on this right now and that 6/8 section is just brutal but great piece!
I'm doing this in band now and wooow it's so catchy but as a clarinet aswell I just die
8:13 Euphoniums are literally in heaven..I GET CHILL EVRRY TIME I PLAY IT
YOOO
Ikr euphonium nation represent
I’m our high school’s solo trumpet and this piece is killing me. THE STAMINA THIS NEEDS!!! Godspeed to any other trumpet soloists on this piece.
great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous basses!
More practice! 😂
rip upper woodwinds
especially piccolo
Ray Wang my ears
And eefer. That 6/8 section’s a freakin’ marathon.
I gotta play this for my bands spring concert. I dont wanna play Dives and Lazarus because of how high it is and how fast it ends up being when we play. I play flute. Save me
Im oboe and have to learn the second half of the song in one day
@@dustyclink1468 rip. I wish you luck, person. Its gonna be near impossible to learn in a day
1:09 is the best part don't @ me
As a tuba I agree
I’m only @ you bc you’re right
I agree if you r a base. But rip me ima flute
Love playing E flat clarinet for this lol
Dives and Lazarus? I play 3rd clarinet and the running notes are just cancer
As a flute player, I’ve never wanted to cry over a first movement more than
Measure 65-97 will forever and always be the death of me
kpopruined mylifeu it gave me life.
I absolutely adore the oboe part in movement 2
Rijuta Vallishayee the advantages of being the only oboe in my school :) I would love to play this song...
I’m glad I get to play this for all district honor band as a freshman who beat out 14 other oboes
@@kalebzhu9947 What! There are 14 oboes in existence! I thought I was the only one!
@@katwilliams8548 Me too - I'm the only young oboist in my extremely musical town, so I get to be in the youth orchestra, even though I have only been playing 2 years. I get this solo and it is lovely!
Thanks
Finally a bass clarinet part that isn’t a drone or walking bass line 💗💗💗💗
this and holst are the best
Mr. Roger Harms had our 9th grade band sight read this in 1976 to get ready for contest. One of the best years of my life. Thank you Mr. Harms.
Ah nice sight reading this in 10th grade in 2019 for our Orchestra. Thanks Mr Summerton
@@euphony5552 we sight read this in 8th grade for our state band concert. Thanks Mr Spang
Sight read this for top band in high school (I'm 10th grade). Taking to Assessment. Thank you Mr. Barnhill
We played this at Assessment in 2019, my sophomore year and it was amazing! Thank you Mr. Frank
We played this in band last year. Thanks Mrs selke :) lol
0:00 Mvt 1
3:28 Mvt 2
7:46 Mvt 3
Thanks
This is an amazing staple for concert band literature. The 6/8 in first movement is, probably, my favorite part, and the part towards the end of the third movement where it changes from 6/8 back into 2/4. This is such an amazing piece!
First movement 2/4 & 6/8 clash is total amazeballs
Third movement is total amazeballs but it adds another element... pirate music! :-D
The 2/4 in movement 3 is the bane of my existence
So English. Vaughan-Williams must have had a lovely time finding these old tunes in the highways and by-ways of England.
We spent what felt like 15 years on this song back in high school so listening to gives me both annoyance and nostalgia.
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0:00 MOVEMENT 1 (Seventeen Come Sunday)
0:07 Seventeen Come Sunday
0:36 Pretty Caroline
1:09 Dives and Lazarus
-Repeat-
1:43 Dives and Lazarus
2:17 Pretty Caroline (reprise)
-Da Capo al Coda-
2:50 Seventeen Come Sunday
3:28 MOVEMENT 2 (My Bonny Boy)
3:33 My Bonny Boy
5:41 Green Bushes
6:25 My Bonny Boy (reprise)
7:46 MOVEMENT 3 (Folk Songs from Somerset)
7:50 Blow Away the Morning Dew
8:13 High Germany
8:29 Blow Away the Morning Dew (reprise)
8:53 The Tree So High
9:10 John Barleycorn
-Repeat-
9:36 The Tree So High
9:53 John Barleycorn
-Da Capo al Fine-
10:21 Blow Away the Morning Dew (reprise)
10:45 High Germany (reprise)
11:00 Blow Away the Morning Dew (Finale)
This was put together and performed not long after the end of World War 1, so folks in Britain had a lot of pride for their country at the time. This comment was posted less than two weeks before Nov. 11th 2018, marking 100 years since the end of World War 1.
HostilePancakes, The One and Only it’s not Tree So High, but Whistle, Daughter, Whistle.
While you guys fight it out, I'm happy for both of your contributions. These songs may or may not still be known in the UK, but thanks to RVW, they're known all over the world.
My favorite part is John Barleycorn
@@sactoindyfan
Well, it’s listed in the score as “The Tree So High,” so I’m not sure I’m going to change it.
Nice
HE'S A REALLY USEFUL ENGINE YOU KNOW
Playing Bari sax in this song over spring break in Orlando for a competition
This piece is as satisfying as a perfectly buttered dinner roll. God damn!
bruhhh fr as a bassoonist it's literally like perfectly made cake
I played bari on this song and it was my favorite! Such a good play
Great Piece
When you’re directly in front of trumpets and trombones
my bass clarinet experience
Aaaaah, Bonny Boy 3:27 so haunting! Also his riffs on the tune are jazz-like and almost psychedelic, reflecting ahead and behind the main line. Cutting in a snatch of The Cutty Wren at 5:41 as the "lift in tone" is just inspired :-)
1:09 the trombome part straight up got me going nuts right now. Amazing piece
bro same im playing it rn
@@mucrowavablesame but I'm a euph
10th grade flautist here, my teacher forgot to give this to me so now i have to learn it in 3 days 😅. Its one of my favorite peices so far!
i remember playing this piece as a 1st seat 1st trumpet over 45 years ago in high school and still have it memorized! We won band competitions with it! Beautiful!
Same here, but did it have trumpet solos in all 3 pieces?
the clarinet solo is so good for this song
Mr. Piazza was my high school band teacher. He retired and moved to another state in 2018 but is and always was like a father to me. He got me through some terrible times and taught not just music to all of his students but, life lessons, confidence, love, friendship, and just about everything good in life. He helped me get to first chair flute and eventually confident enough to learn and play 3 different instruments, which I never thought I could do before freshman year. This piece always makes me think of the amazing times I had in band class because of my love for music, my awesome bandmates, and the best teacher I have ever had. Thank you so much Mr. P. You were more of a father to me than my own father was. I’m a decent person because of you and will continue to be until I leave this world. MHS band forever ❤️❤️
great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous basses!
My Bonny Boy : 3:28
Folk Songs From Somerset : 7:43
0:00: Seventeen come Sunday
High Germany is somewhere in the third movement
Oh my, the memories. My 9th grade symphonic band played this piece back in 1983. The following year, my first year of marching band, we did Folk Song Suite as the opener to our field show. It's a wonderful piece in both formats. 😊
As a clarinet player, this piece still scares me.
It's fun though.
Probably my favorite song I've ever played in band. I miss this song so much 😞
"You are a Symphonic Wind Ensemble that just happens to move." ~Clifford K. Chapman
My high-school band director. As he showed us excerpts from this for marching band season.
I auditioned and made high s😮chool honor band in either my sophomore or junior year. Can't remember as it has been many years since.
We opened with this song and I remember vividly who conducted the band. His name was Carl Chevellard (sp?) who was the guest conductor that year. I remember him because for some reason he asked the baritone/euphonium section to play each a tuning note. I think I was either last or second to last to play. He said "finally, someone under pitch!". I think that was a good thing.
I love playing Dives and Lazarus (Mvmt 1, m. 65, 1:09) on the snare drum. You get to beat the living daylights out of it at full volume.
Basically, at my funeral I want this and Holst's first suite for band in Eb to be played at my funeral by a live wind ensemble.
Amen
Oboe player here, one of the most spectacular pieces I've ever had to the privilege of playing. My Bonny boy gives me chills, and always will. It's an honour to be able to introduce a movement, and then hear the band carry the momentum forwards into something a little bit more refined and beautiful, less timid, but more melancholy.
I literally play the third movement on SmartMusic every chance I get. I can't get enough of this piece.
lawrence davis I was wondering if it's on smart music. Thanks for answering that for me! I want to play it.
Smart music haunts my memories. swear I developed ptsd from the playing tests we had to do through it if we missed a practice
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absolutley beautiful! made me cry when i first heard it thank you for being so great to me. i fall asleep to this song every night too!!
Adriana Tigner me too!!
thanks you too
Yes.
it’s literally so mid
great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous basses!
I may be only a horn player with nothing too exciting in the Dives and Lazarus part but...
*H O L Y S H I T* do I love that section
Rankurusu777 ME TOO
Rankurusu777 "only a horn player" DUDE do you not understand how important and loved our instrument was to Vaughn Williams, Holst, Grainger, and Wagner JUST TO NAME A FEW!
But at least the horn parts have the Picardy 3rd at the end of movement 1 and the awesome part in the second half of the third movement
Rankurusu777 I’m a flute and that part sounds legendary but its a nightmare to play it’s a fun challenge though
Love the Triplet passages in the upper wwds.
Rich Chameroy I love it too but if you're a flute player and playing this I'm high school and having to learn it in a couple of months is hard as can be because those notes are written way above the staff. But do have to admit I love this piece and the low brass part during the triplet section in movement 1.
I play baritone/euphonium and i realkly enjoyed playing this piece
Love how he throws in Divies and Lazarus in the middle of the first movement. I know this piece so well I can conduct it with my eyes closed.
We just played this and it is an absolutely beautiful piece. This is a great recording, I highly recommend this as a resource for those who are learning the piece.
Ah how I remember playing this song. The one thing I miss from my high school days is being in the concert band. Always loved playing music and this was a fun song
I played this as a percussionist, and it was fun wish I can go back and do it again.
I played this as a clarinetist in college. I was in the band, and we played this song a few times. This was a very fun piece. I especially liked the first and third movements
this was my most favorite piece I've ever played in a band ever, and i will always always come back to it. so beautiful and dynamic
I love the flute part in the first movement it really gets your fingers moving
This popped into my head today, so I looked it up. I played the flute part 40+ years ago. Hearing it again, it's funny how well I remember it. I loved it then, I love it now.
Were playing this for the spring concert but the 6/8 section in the first movement is killing. I cant only play like half of it currently ant full tempo
1:09 daaang trombones
HyperNovaPika Boi. Dass our job. Blow you away
@@ryancarroll1697 facts
Matthew Howard nah bro trumpet ftw
I have to stand right next to the trombones while playing this song and my ears are sensitive
Hey, low woodwinds too! Don't forget about us.
English folk is amazing
every-time i hear this music it reminds me of the animals of farthing wood or watership down, it feels like it belongs in those kind of stories.
Played this work as a Freshman under Delbert Bangle at Castle Park HS in 1984. Beautiful and moving stirring the soul. This orchestra does it Right.
I played this when I was in band. I played flute. The only way I could do it was to just memorize it because looking at the mess of jumbled music notes on the sheet of music was too hard for me.
great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous basses!
Me too, I had muscle memory lol
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My treasure
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My blue sky
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Such a classic. I played it in high school band, then my daughter played it in her high school band.
Played this in high school - trumpet. Loved that they called Movement 2 My Pony Boy.
Playing this perfectly constructed, exuberant piece in high school concert band made me interested in twentieth century music. That will seem odd to German musicologists, but It was the sheer joy of performing the clarinet and bass clarinet parts.
great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous basses!
I play clarinet on this piece and I love it especially at measure 65
Miguel Deleon honestly, same. The rest of the section complains about it and here's me, just jamming out to measure 65 😂
Yeah I love that part too. It's so fun to play, I would say the only thing that I don't like is that there isn't very many places to breathe.
I play the bass clarinet and its way more fun to play the part at 1:09 was lit
@Miguel Deleon Doesn't everybody love that part at Bar 65?
Played oboe for this in high school... my heart this was probably one of my favorite songs to play!!!
I love this song so much, and go euphoniums! (I play euphonium lol)
Just finished a concert I also play the euph I’m glad there are people out there who loves the euph just like me and pls tell me you still play
The 6/8 against 2/4... I played this my sophomore year in HS on bari sax and that section always got me soooo excited. Just hearing the piccolo and flutes and clarinets struggle while I had the same part as low brass... hehehe
And now I have a new reason to
Be excited: my college band is playing Folk Song Suite!!!
The part where the woodwinds are playing in 6/8 and the low brass blasts a melody over it in 2/4 is my favorite thing about this piece.
The scherzando at 5:42 has to be my favorite part
Robert Schumann Quote : Composing something real unique is writing down a melody/set of notes that no one else ever had done before.... ♫♪🙏 ✨ 🙌 ❤ 💛 💖
At 1:09, all I can think about is the Trombone section and Ireland.
Don't forget the basses!
DiamondBroAventador ture
And euphoniums
Low reeds too, we have the 2/4 piece! Absolutely love it.
As a cellist, I love this piece
great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous basses!
I hear this suite and I'm transported back to SHS high band, as I played snare on the first movement * TRIANGLE * on the intermezzo and bass drum on third movement. Oh, the pure joy...and our cymbal player went postal on the third movement!
great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous basses!
5:40 *_C O U G H C O U G H_*
Lol 😂
literally dying!!!! Lol
I don't know why it's so funny. XD
This always makes me imagine being a pirate on some epic adventure across the seven seas
Playing this for 10th grade this year along with Sky Dance BG Richard L. Saucedo and they are both so challenging but yet so fun. I play flute!
My band was going to play this for our December concert, but unfortunately a tornado hit a week before, and didn't get to play it. This is an amazing piece, my favorite section is the slow moving part :) I am a clarinet player btw
great ♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @/bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous basses!
好懷念以前高中的樂隊生活，我很享受當豎笛手首席以及樂隊指揮的時光，謝謝你！
5:41 I don’t remember a cough being part of this piece
lol, it's a woodwind instrument used in all music over 5 minutes of length!
In honor band, we played Themes from Green Bushes, and that next part sounds a lot like it.
john cage enters the chat
I have played this piece a few times, and I am obsessed with the first and third movement.
Playing this arrangement in Grade 9. I love it! Percussion is fun in many parts.
me too!
It's so awesome to see so many people get to know this song before university; Ralph Vaughan Williams is a stellar composer to know.
The Nickster I played this this year on saxophone with an alto clarinet part.
ooo same tuba life tho
The Nickster nickelback is the best
This is just the best piece I’ve ever played
n the first day of christmas my true love sent to me... in the third movement.
No wonder why it sounded familiar. XD
Bum. Now I won't hear anything else. Bugger.
"On the first day of Christmas my true love *gave* to me..."
James Duffy sent*
@@harryroberts4453 it might just be different. James Duffy and I myself sing it *gave* , and you sing it *sent* .
I have this piece, its one of my favs
For some reason the 2/4 & 6/8 part got turned into a meme in my high school
@@susannahr2155 How? If you found any ways
same
High school my middle school played this 2 years ago
@@susannahr2155 great ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪great sound! ♫♪♫♪ ☺ ♥ ♫♪☺♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous banding
Played e flat clarinet in this a few years back, so much fun!!
By God we'll have our home again.
I have heard many recordings of this delightful piece but this remarkable. Brilliant!
I love clarinet part🤟🤟 I played once with school band
Wonderful dances!
Ahhhh I miss playing Trombone in high school!
I played this song for my region clinic in January 2019. It felt good to be a part of something. I feel empty and purposeless now.
I remember preforming this piece with the Honolulu Youth Symphony. The sun was shining.
The trombone parts at 1:09, 8:14 and 9:14 are so fun to play
The clarinet for "In a tree so high" was so much fun.
"The tree so high," my bad.
As a euphonium playing similar parts, I agree that all of these spots hit hard
@@dannylazer1004 As a euphonium as well, 1:09 is my favorite part
I agree my trombone brother but I suck so I can’t hit those high notes consistently 😂
I have only about 10 classical CD's, but this is one of my favs....!
@stevendphoto u chosen wisely and tastfull choosiung this too!!!! ♫♪
One of my favourites for sure!
love the triplets at 65 just love them
Such a beautiful piece. x
I really like on the first movement when part of the band goes on 6/8 while the rest is on 2/4!
Juan Velasquez trust me its harder than you think playing this piece.
Amethyst Gamer and that's that I have been playing this piece since January!
If you play it for a concert and then you wait for a year to play it again for enjoyment, it's pretty amazing how well you can remember it so well for so long.
@@RoseCadenza great ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪great sound! ♫♪♫♪ ☺ ♥ ♫♪☺♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous banding
I love this piece. I played this piece a little more than a year ago on 1st and 2nd clarinet. I wish I could go back in time and play this again.
If you've got the part, play along with this recording. :-)
@@gracegorman3306 I don't have the part. But I can actually read my part on the recording and play along. :D
@@gracegorman3306 great ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪great sound! ♫♪♫♪ ☺ ♥ ♫♪☺♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous banding
Any Low brass here (Trombone)
Euphonium!!! Low Brass FTW
trombone!
Wereverchiquen moi. Baritone, Trombone, Tuba, Euphonium as needed
Yabohl!
Euphonium counts as low brass so hi.
I played this for my winter concert 3 moths ago. The trombone part is pretty fun.
great ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪ ♫♪ ♫♪great sound! ♫♪♫♪ ☺ ♥ ♫♪☺♫♪♫♪♫♪☺ BRAVISSIMO @bisbis 🎶🎵🎼 great music! a well tuned ensemble that sounds like an organ ! Fabulous banding
one of my favorite pieces...speaking as rock bass player.
I’m in 7th grade at the time of writing this, my band instructor knows we’re good and one of the best he’s had. So he decided to give us hard music to play. I play French horn along with two others. Our band is fairly big. 50-60 ish people. So we have to play a bit louder to be heard. Anyway, I feel as if everyone hates the French horn and gives them music so easy that when we do a chair test it sounds like our warm ups. Every time we get new music I hope it’s hard or challenging it never is. That false hope is always there though.
Appreciate being young, and being in school band while you can. I know that you can't really comprehend the depth of what I'm saying, or what it means. But one day you will. Cherish this time while you can, it won't come again. I miss band everyday of my life!
Oh it gets way harder, look at children's march by Grainger or American overture for band of you want examples
Played Alto Sax on this back in the 90s in high school.