Folk Song Suite for Military Band
This guide follows Williams’s Folk Song Suite for Military Band “English Folk Song Suite” (1923) in one part.
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Follow all 7 sections as they play
— Seventeen Come Sunday0:00–3:28
After a four- , A presents Seventeen Come Sunday, a bouncy tune in the woodwinds whose thirteen- sounds slightly irregular; it is repeated with the brass joining in. A short leads to B, Pretty Caroline, a quiet, smooth for clarinet and cornet. In C, Dives and Lazarus enters in the low brass and saxophones in a firm 2/4, while the upper woodwinds play against it in 6/8. B′ brings Pretty Caroline back, and the to Seventeen Come Sunday, completing the arch.
- A – Seventeen Come Sunday
Section boundaries in music are not always sharp; a transition may be felt over a pause or a held chord.
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