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The Waldorf song book / collected and edited by Brien Masters.

Other author/creatorMasters, Brien, editor, compiler.
Other author/creatorMaclean, Astrid, illustrator.
Format Musical Score and Print
Publication InfoEdinburgh : Floris Books, 1987.
Description1 score (141 pages) : illustrations ; 21 cm
Subject(s)
Contents Songs for age 8-9 (Class 3). Step we gaily -- Unconquered hero of the skies -- Green lies the dancing water -- Heaven blue -- Let us with gladsome mind -- The shepherd's song -- Skye boat song -- The whirling mill -- On this, our glorious Eastertide -- This joyful Easter day -- Over the hills and far away -- The dawn wind now is waking -- Little red bird of the lonely moor: Manx lullaby -- Down in the valley -- How beautiful they are, the Lordly ones -- How delightful to see -- Once on a bright summer's day -- The ash grove: Llwyn On (Welsh) -- The flowers in the valley -- Waken sleeping butterfly -- The merry haymakers -- Songs for age 9-10 (Class 4). Sigurd and the dragon -- Happy birthday -- Reap the flax -- The frosty air is echoing -- Alleluia -- The song of Christmas day -- New year -- Where is John? -- To wander is the miller?s joy / [Franz] Schubert -- Love is come again -- A sea-bird to her chicks -- Tomorrow shall be my dancing day -- Kookaburra -- Bells ring, rise and sing -- O soldier, won?t you marry me? -- I bind unto myself today: St. Patrick?s hymn -- In the red of evening -- We?ve ploughed our land -- For all the saints / [Ralph] Vaughan Williams -- Alleluia for all things / A.C. Harwood -- Iduna -- Bugles gaily call us -- Glory to Thee, my God, this night -- Clouds of rain -- Songs for age 10-11 (Class 5). Life from dead furrow -- When autumn mists gather -- Bhajan -- Hail light of lights -- The fire of ash twigs -- Sanctus -- O holy night -- Three kings come star-led riding -- Come all ye jolly shanty boys -- Blow the wind southerly -- Farewell night -- Easter day -- Ye banks and braes o? Bonny Doon -- St Francis? hymn -- Come follow -- Che farò senza Euridice? / [Christoph Willibald] Gluck -- Good friends when gathered together -- On the hills the John-fires burn -- Migildi magilidi -- Glorious apollo / Samuel Webbe -- Sleep, refreshing -- Greensleeves -- Songs for age 11-12 (Class 6). Michaelmas time -- Sunrise is flaming / Cherubini -- Deo gratias -- The mermaid -- Make merry -- Ring out, wild bells / Alfred Tennyson -- Juvivalera -- How cool blows the breeze / [Carl Maria von] Weber -- When winter skies / Carl Loewe -- Storming, roaring, wintry winds / [Joseph] Haydn -- Pange lingua = Sing my tongue the glorious battle -- Under the leaves of life -- Daffodils on fields of green -- Why with bulrush mock him? -- The streams in the mountains -- While the flames leap up -- Light ever gladsome -- The Lord my pasture shall prepare / [Joseph] Haydn -- Fie, nay prithee, John / Henry Purcell -- The veil of destiny is drawn / [Wolfgang Amadeus] Mozart -- Anne de Bretagne -- Headstrong horses on the plain -- Songs for age 12 upwards (Classes 7 & 8). Michael sea-lord -- The paths of life are steep / [Joseph] Haydn -- Firmly on the earth I stand -- Bubbling and splashing / Henry Purcell -- En feste Burg / Martin Luther -- O God of heaven, hear my praises / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Who will come to the sea -- Never weather-beaten sail / Thomas Campion -- Lord of the universe, hear my prayer -- Non nobis domine / William Byrd -- Come and sing this Christmas morn -- The crown of roses / [Peter Ilyich] Tchaikovsky -- Taquiriri -- I gaze out o?er the moonlit earth -- Easter eggs / [Nikolas] Rimsky-Korsakov -- ?Neath the spreading chestnut branches / [Joseph] Haydn -- All through the night -- Sumer is icumin in -- Shalom chaverim.
Abstract This book contains over a hundred songs (well-known, rounds, four-part) collected by the editor during his many years of work in the Waldorf Schools. Arranged by age and by time of year, the book is designed for classroom or home use.
General noteUnaccompanied melodies for children.
General noteIncludes preface in English.
General noteMusic handwritten by Jenny Wellman, illustrations by Astrid Maclean.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.
ISBN0863150594
ISBN9780863150593

Available Items

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Music Closed Stacks - Ask at Circulation Desk M1992 .W34 1987 ✔ Available Place Hold