Name: Over the Hills and Far Away (arr. Alan Wagstaff) by Alan Wagstaff Performance Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
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Over the Hills and Far Away (arr. Alan Wagstaff)
by Alan Wagstaff Performance Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title Over the Hills and Far Away (arr. Alan Wagstaff)

Artist Alan Wagstaff

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Traditional

Arranger Alan Wagstaff

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 8

Arrangement Performance Ensemble

Publisher Alan Wagstaff

Level 3

Product ID 1416717

Genre Traditional Folk Historic March

Product Description

'Over the Hills and Far Away' is a traditional British song with several versions dating from 17th Century

It has been arranged for folksy ensemble of voice, fiddle, whistle, accordion, and snare drum. The song runs into a military march of the same name.

Notes: "Over the Hills and Far Away" is a traditional British song, dating back to at least the late 17th century. One version was published in Thomas D'Urfey's Wit and Mirth, or Pills to Purge Melancholy; a very different one appeared in George Farquhar's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer. A version also appears in John Gay's 'The Beggar's Opera' of 1728.

The words have changed over the years. The only consistent element in early versions is the title line and the tune. D'Urfey's and Gay's versions both refer to lovers, while Farquhar's version refers to fleeing overseas to join the army.

The tune was provided with another set of lyrics for the British Sharpe television series of the 1990s, based on Farquhar's version.

The nursery rhyme "Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son" mentions a piper who knows only one tune, this one.

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