Dorothea Barth Musician and WriterElegant Violin Music for your Wedding or Special EventCeltic Sheet Music Arrangements
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A beautiful recording of Green: Songs That Celebrate Our Natural World was released by our duo Kammeraderie on May 21, 2015 and is available as a digital download through CDBaby, Amazon, and iTunes.

An anthology of English, Irish, and Scottish traditional music

selected and arranged by Dorothy Barth

The absorbing hours spent perusing, selecting, and arranging Celtic music has inspired numerous themes for my anthologies. Green, is my sixth volume of duo arrangements and focuses on songs that celebrate our natural world. The many songs whose titles contain references to hills, valleys, rivers, mountains, groves, and flowers reflect the Celtic reverence for and delight in the beauty of their lands. Although many of these songs are hundreds of years old, their allure is especially relevant today as we struggle with environmental challenges that would have been unimaginable then.

As in previous collections, I drew the source tunes from O’Neill’s Music of Ireland, the Gow Collection of Scottish Dance Music, and Playford’s Dancing Master. I’ve kept the melodies true to their source, though as always I grant myself liberty to switch the tune between the two instruments, change octaves, and add embellishments on repeats--something that would also be done in spontaneous performance.

These arrangements were conceived for recorder and violin but may also be played on flute and violin or two violins. In this volume, the suggested recorder range is indicated, but the adaptable recorder player may experiment with different ranges. We prefer the soprano recorder (which sounds an octave higher than written) on reels, jigs, and hornpipes and the tenor recorder (or alto recorder depending on range) for slower, lyrical pieces. 

The sheet music for Green: Songs That Celebrate Our Natural World is now available through Sheet Music Plus and Sheet Music Direct as a digital download. 

Green Table of Contents

Streams and Shores
Ben Lomond 
Beside a Silvery Stream
The Banks of Banna
The Banks of Dunmore 
The Banks of the Black Water  
The Banks of the Shannon
Down by the Riverside 
On the Bank of Flowers 
The Flowers of Erin's Green Shore 
The Mourne Shore  
The Streams of Bunclody

Hills and Valleys
Bonny Highland Hills 
The Fair Hills of Eire O! 
The Flowers of the Valley 
The Little Heathy Hill 
The Mountain Top 
The Mountains of Pomeroy
The Enchanted Valley 
The Peace of the Valley  
The Rushy Mountain 

Caves and Rocks 
Beside the White Rocks 
The Brink of the White Rocks 
The Caves of Cong

Sun and Moon 
Glory of the Sun 
The Rising of the Moon