The Ballad of Tom Dooley (arr. J. William Greene) by North Carolina traditonal folk tune Sheet Music for Choir at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title The Ballad of Tom Dooley (arr. J. William Greene)

Artist North Carolina traditonal folk tune

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger J. William Greene

Composer North Carolina traditonal folk tune

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 4

Arrangement Choir

Publisher J. William Greene

Product ID 1078769

Genre Folk

Instruments Choir

Product Description

This creative arrangement of a post-Civil War North Carolina folk tune exploits the "bending" of a melody around the beat, a common practice in folk music. While the beat is steady--though sometimes "stretched"--the tune occasionally "slips" behind or more rarely before the beat. When this happens the upper voices sometimes drop an initial hard consonant to avoid a stuttering effect. Singers of this ballad are encouraged to intensify this effect to greater or lesser degree according to their taste. Fermatas (as a momentary suspension of the beat) can be longer or shorter for the same reason. Dynamics should be derived from the text.

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