>You wrote: > >>Thanks! I think I even have that one. >> >>All The Pretty Little Horses -- a beautiful song that will help >>preserve our American folk heritage.
This from Susie, the folk song expert in the family. Yes, a lovely song, but with a devestatingly sad story. But there are a good many dorian minor folk songs, and the list below is an excellent start. (Thanks, Hal!) (Yes, I was wrong in my previous post. Mea culpa!) John > > >Dear Crystal, > >I have did an arrangement of "All the Pretty Little Horses" for SSA >and Piano that's still available from Theodore Presser. > >Here are more songs you might use. Many of them are in minor-type >modes (Dorian, Aeolian): > > Ground Hog > The Erie Canal > We Three Kings of Orient Are > Greensleeves > Bound for the Promised Land > El-a-noy > I am a Poor Wayfaring Stranger > Willy the Weeper > Peter Gray > Johnny has Gone for a Soldier > The Waggle-Taggle Gypsies, O > The Three Ravens > The Drunken Sailor > Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill > Meadowlands > Hatikvah > The Coventry Carol > God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen > Hanukkah Song > Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair > Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence > Wondrous Love > >Minor is so much more fun than major - all those moveable degrees! > >Best regards, > >Harold Owen John & Susie Howell Virginia Tech Department of Music Blacksburg, Virginia, U.S.A. 24061-0240 Vox (540) 231-8411 Fax (540) 231-5034 (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.music.vt.edu/faculty/howell/howell.html _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
