Simple Gifts: Sab, Choral Octavo

Simple Gifts has been sung to numerous different lyrics (particularly Sydney Carter's 1960s hymn Lord of the Dance) and the tune is very well known, thanks to its use in Aaron Copland's score for the ballet Appalachian Spring, first performed in 1944. Elder Joseph Brackett -- a Shaker from Maine -- originally wrote it as a dancing song" in 1848.

Faber Choral Singles offer a series of beautifully crafted arrangements in a diversity of musical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 057153810X
• ISBN13: 9780571538102
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Length: 999 Pages
• Weight: 0.03 lbs.