Name: Forest Green (arr. Kathleen Ryan) by Kathleen Ryan Piano Solo Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Indigo Mesa Music LLC
Price: 5.99 USD
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Product Details

Title Forest Green (arr. Kathleen Ryan)

Artist Kathleen Ryan

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger Kathleen Ryan

Composer Kathleen Ryan

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 6

Arrangement Piano Solo

Publisher Indigo Mesa Music LLC

Level 5

Product ID 1294770

Genre Classical New Age Contemporary

Instruments Piano

Product Description

English folk song.

I have set this melody in several arrangements; this is actually the most rambunctious of the lot! This is bravura piano playing and not for the faint of heart. The right hand has a long passage of double notes at 16th-note speed. The left hand plays 8th-note many-octave-spanning double notes for much of the arrangement, and then has double notes at 16th-note speed for the final section. To perform this will require a lot of practice and then sheer (relaxed!) bravado.

Forest Green is really my all-time favorite melody. I anticipate setting it a dozen or more different ways.

For example, this is the melody the English use for the Christmas carol O Little Town of Bethlehem, and I have arranged it more lyrically for that song. Perhaps someday it will make it onto a CD.

I have also used this melody for the final section of my arrangement of All Through the Night on Under the Greenwood Tree. That is a far more lyrical arrangement as well.

This melody, in a highly arranged version, also makes a cameo in These Hands Held Music, on Passages.

All of these arrangements are currently available in pdf. Who knows, perhaps someday Ill create an entire album of arrangements of Forest Green!

~ Kathleen

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