Folk Song Sight Singing Book 6

Folk Song Sight Singing Series Book 6

Compiled and edited by Edgar Crowe, Annie Lawton, and W. Gillies Whittaker

Small book  

A collection of folk tunes of many countries, carefully graded for schools and colleges, with notes and advice as to use. In all cases phrasing and expression marks are added, and the origin of the tune stated.

Book 6 has 90 tunes.

• A tie over the second and third eighth notes in series of four eighth notes and syncopation (eighth note, quarter note, eighth note)
• Semiquavers not stepwise
• Easy tunes with an eighth note as beat
• Modal tunes
• Less easy use of ba and se and of chromatics
• Further modulation with keys stated
• Compound time, rests, and dotted eighth note with sixteenth note and eighth note