Here are three well-known folk songs as you've never seen them before. "The song is only the starting point as each one undergoes some transformations." says the introduction - some understatement!
Difficulty guide: 8-9
Difficulty level, roughly compared to ABRSM exam grades. 0 is total beginner, 9 is advanced (beyond grade 8).
Movements
Barbara Ellen This wonderful tune has changes of metre and is greatly ornamented. There is a busy central section before the melody returns.
Green Bushes a brief introduction leads into a restless statement of the tune in 5/4 which becomes increasingly frenetic. Calm is restored when the tune returns.
Wraggle Taggle Gypsies is a virtuoso work-out in variation form.
