Second Suite in F - Basses

The score can be downloaded in the format of your preference: Try again ConnorJ worked hard on this score. Want to give something back? Give a small token of appreciation! Try again More of this, please? Follow to get notified when ConnorJ has uploaded new scores. To print parts, please upgrade to a Pro account first. Why am I seeing this? Uploaded on Dec 22, Played this in my wind ensemble last year, and I'm pretty sure the sax part was exactly this! Ah, how fun it was to have sax solos I played this piece in a select ensemble this summer and you really did it justice! He was British through and through and spent much of his creative life writing music based on English folk songs, much like his good friend Ralph Vaughn Williams a quick aside about Mr.

First, his last name is Vaughn Williams, not Williams.

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Second, his first name is pronounced "Rafe" with a long vowel sound on the "a". Holst was a trombonist, thus his interest in bands. His First and Second Suites for Military Band are really the beginning of serious music written for concert band. Our modern day concert bands grew out of the military band - the current instrumentation is slightly different; for example, we use mostly trumpets, not cornets.

The two suites and Mr. Holst concert band work, Hammersmith , are the first pieces origianlly written for band and transcribe for orchestra usually it went the other way around - John Philip Sousa transcribed many orchestral works for his band. Holst didn't just write for band, he was a very famous British composer and wrote many pieces for orchestra, 8 operas, many choral works and over 40 songs.

Holst, like many composers, recycled his melodies and arrangements. All four of the movements in the Second Suite have at least some of the sections included in his other works.

Second Suite for Military Band, Op.28 No.2 (Holst, Gustav)

There are links below to choral or string orchestra versions and it is interesting to listen to them and see how similar the arrangements are! The Second Suite in F for Military Band was composed in , before the sections were used in other music. Knowing the songs from which Mr. Holst took his inspiration helps us to more accurately interpret our music and to more easily find the emotion in the arrangements of the tunes.

If you know what the song is about, you can more easily put the emotion into your playing. The part of the tune Holst used starts at 0: Swansea Town starts at letter E. This song is what is called a "Riley Ballad". The lady-love scorns him saying she will wait for her love and he reveals himself either by saying her name, or showing a broken token of which each has half, and of course they walk off into the sunset together and live happily ever after.

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There are several rivers of similar names and it is not known to which this song refers. The song is another Riley Ballad. The song is sometimes called "I Love My Love" and is about a woman who ends up in Bedlam insane asylum because her love's parents sent him off to sea to separate the two of them. He finds her and they live happily ever after. Follow the link for a performance of it: It ends on the dominant chord chord built on the 5 of the scale , which makes our ears want to return to the tonic chord built on the 1 of the scale , but there is no tonic chord except at the beginning of the piece, so it circles back to the beginning and never ends without a change.

Below are two links to watch the dance being performed: Greensleeves was a very popular Elizabethan Ballad during the time of Shakespeare and is first mentioned in , although it may have been written earlier. Neither story really seems to fit with what historians know of the piece. Dargason has a feeling of two beats per measure with each beat divided into three parts, which is called compound duple meter.

Compound means the beat divides into 3 equal parts and duple means that there are 2 beats per measure. Greensleeves , on the other hand, is in simple triple meter. Simple means the beat divides into two equal parts and triple means that there are three beats in a measure.

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This happens twice -- at letter C and letter G. Dargason is in F major and the whole tune can be played over just two chords, F and gm F major and g minor , each for two measures. Greensleeves is in D dorian Huh? It can mostly be played over two chords, gm and dm g minor and d minor , each for two measures. Holst starts the Greensleeves melody on the 3rd measure of the Dargason , which happens to be a gm chord!

Ah, but what about the F chord and the dm? They are related and can be substituted for each other.

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Notice that two of the three notes are in both chords F and A. So with some substitution chords, the two can work together. Substitution chords are quite common in all music as it adds variety to the harmonic structure. To set up our ear for the addition of Greensleeves in both sections C and G, Mr.

Holst uses the d minor chord instead of the F major to start the Dargason. Here is a recording of the string orchestra version; notice how similar it is: Oh farewell to you my Nancy, ten thousand times adieu; I'm bound to cross the ocean, girl, once more to part from you.

Once more to part from you, fine girl, you're the girl that I adore. But still I live in hopes to see old Swansea town once more. Chorus Old Swansea town once more, fine girl, you're the girl that I adore. Oh it's now that I am out at sea, and you are far behind; Kind letters I will write to you of the secrets of my mind.

The secrets of my mind, fine girl, you're the girl that I adore. Oh now the storm is rising, I see it coming on; The night so dark as anything, we cannot see the moon. Our good old ship she is tossed aft, our rigging is all tore. It was down by Swansea barracks one May morning I strayed A-viewing of the soldier lads I spied a comely maid, It was o'er her red and rosy cheeks the tears did dingle down, I thought she was some goddess fair, the lass of Swansea town. I said, "Fair maid, what brought you here, what brought you here to mourn? Soon as she heard him say these words she fell in deep despair, Wringing of her lily-white hands and tearing of her hair, Saying, "Take me to my Willie, else give me my death wound, For no other man will ever enjoy the lass of Swansea town.

On coming to herself once more up from the ground she rose, His waistcoat it blew open and the scar it did expose. They walked till they reached his cottage and there they settled down, Young Willie of the royal blue and the lass of Swansea town.

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I boldly stepped up to her, I took her by surprise I own she did not know me, I being dressed in disguise "Where are you going my fair one, my joy and heart's delight Where are you going to wander this dark and stormy night? It's on the way to Claudy's banks if you will please to show Take pity on a stranger, for there I want to go It's seven long years or better since Johnny has left this shore He's crossing the wide ocean where the foaming billows roar. He's crossing the wide ocian for honor and for fame His ship's been wrecked so I've been told down on the Spanish Main It's on the banks of Claudy, fair maid whereon you stand Now don't you believe young Johnny, for he's a false young man.

Now when she heard this dreadful news, she fell into despair For the wringing of her tender hands and the tearing of her hair "If Johnny he be drowned, no man alive I'll take Through lonesome shades and valleys, I'll wander for his sake. Now when he saw her loyalty, no longer could he stand He fell into her arms saying, "Betsy, I'm your man" Saying "Betsy, I'm the young man that caused you all your pain And since we've met on Claudy's banks, we'll never part again. Holst used in his choral arrangement. This ballad is similar to a Riley Ballad, but does not have the lover in disguise.

Abroad as I was walking One evening in the spring I heard a maid in Bedlam So sweetly for to sing; Her chain she rattled with her hands And thus replied she:. I love my love Because I know My love loves me. Oh cruel were his parents Who sent my love to sea And cruel was the ship That bore my love from me: Just as she there sat weeping Her love he came on land Then, hearing she was in Bedlam He ran straight out of hand; He flew into her snow-white arms And thus replied he: So now these two are married, And happy may they be like turtle Doves together, in love and unity.

All pretty maids with patience wait That have got loves at sea; Chorus. For the blacksmith courted me, nine months and better; And first he won my heart, till he wrote to me a letter. With his hammer in his hand, for he strikes so mighty and clever, He makes the sparks to fly all around his middle.

But where is my love gone With his cheeks like roses And his good black Billycock on Decked around with primroses. I fear the shining sun May burn and scorch his beauty And if I was with my love I would do my duty. Strange news is come to town Strange news is carried Strange news flies up and down That my love is married. I wish them both much joy Though they can't hear me And may God reward him well For the slighting of me.

Second Suite in F (revised)

Don't you remember when You lay beside me And you said you'd marry me And not deny me. Her lips grew pale and wan It made a poor heart tremble To think she loved a one And he proved deceitful. A blacksmith courted me Nine months and better He fairly won my heart Wrote me a letter. With his hammer in his hand He looked so clever And if I was with my love I would live forever. It is not necessary to read all of the things he did for her and gave to her, but do read the last three verses as he bids her farewell before he dies.

Alas, my love, ye do me wrong, To cast me off discourteously: Greensleeves was all my joy, Greensleeves was my delight; Greensleeves was my heart of gold, And who but Lady Greensleeves. Greensleeves was all my joy I bought thee kerchers to thy head, That were wrought fine and gallantly; I kept thee both at board and bed, Which cost my purse well-favour'dly. I bought thee petticoats of the best, The cloth so fine as might be; I gave thee jewels for thy chest, And all this cost I spent on thee. Thy smock of silk, both fair and white, With gold embroider'd gorgeously; Thy petticoat of sendal right, And these I bought thee gladly.

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And yet thou wouldst not love me! Thy purse, and eke thy gay gilt knives,1 Thy pin-case,2 gallant to the eye; No better wore the burgess' wives: Thy crimson stockings, all of silk, With gold all wrought above the knee; Thy pumps, as white as was the milk: And yet though wouldst not love me! Thy gown was of the grassy green, Thy sleeves of satin hanging by; Which made thee be our harvest queen: They set thee up, they took thee down, They served thee with humility; Thy foot might not once touch the ground: For every morning, when thou rose, I sent thee dainties, orderly, To cheer thy stomach from all woes: Thou couldst desire no earthly thing, But still thou hadst it readily, Thy music, still to play and sing: Even I that am rejected here, And thou disdainest to love me!

I will pray to God on high, That thou my constancy mayst see, And that, yet once before I die, Thou wilt vouchsafe to love me!