Series: Guitar: Fingerpicking

Ashokan Farewell Guitar Arrangement
 
Ashokan Farewell Guitar Arrangement
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    Code: MB21593
    List Price $ 5.99
    Our Price: $4.79
    Shipping Weight: 0.08 lbs.
    UPC: 796279073424
    ISBN: 0786638567
    Pages: 4
    Medium: Sheet Music
    Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
    Book Length: 11.75
    Book Width: 8.75
    Author: Jay Ungar
    Product Line: Guitar (Fingerpicking)
    Product Group: Solos
    Product Class: All Styles
    Binding: FD
    Publication Date: 19-May-10
    Category: Category
    DifOverall: Intermediate
     
     
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    Renowned fiddler and composer Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, his musical partner and wife, have run the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp in upstate New York for many years. Jay wrote "Ashokan Farewell" in 1982 at the camp season's end, to express the sense of loss he felt after the departure of the musical community. The melody’s sweet, haunting sadness proved to be a perfect match for Ken Burns's 1990 PBS series "The Civil War", which introduced it to millions of viewers.

    In this guitar arrangement, the bass line enters as an ascending response to the melody, which is then harmonized in sixths and thirds the second time through. The arrangement is a good study in position shifting up and down the fingerboard, and provides a great showcase for dynamic and tonal nuance in the phrasing of the melody. It is an excellent concert selection and will be a popular addition to the repertoire of any fingerstyle player, on either steel- or nylon-string guitar.