Scarborough Fair

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Soprano 1, Soprano 2, Alto, Tenor, Bass — An old English ballad,xa0Scarborough Fairxa0relates the tale of a jilted maiden who instructs her listener to tell her former lover that she will have him back after he performs a series of impossible tasks: making a shirt without a seam, washing it in a dry well, to name a few. A modern equivalent might be "when pigs fly."Keep it light and bring out the differing accents in the meters, especially the dotted quarter notes. While there is no percussion part written in the score,xa0 we had a djembe player play along to bring out the various accents.xa0 Feel free to add your own as well. Have fun! Loepky's jazzy, metrically interesting arrangement of this well-known English ballad is a must for choirs both large and small looking for a well-known piece arranged with a "cool, wow" factor. Lots of fun and tremendous audience appeal.

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