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Goetze, Mary: Scarborough Fair

English Folk Ballad

vocal/choral score

Setting: Upper Voices
Instrumentation: SSA
Length: 6 pages
Format: 16,9 x 26,3 cm (Oktav)
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI5400989
Other reference: BHI 5400989
ISMN: 9790051463909
Mary Goetze presents here a setting of hte most familiar variant of this traditional folk ballad in which two lovers make impossible requests of each other. The texture shifts from homophonic to imitative counterpoint. Brief dissonances created and resolved by stepwise progression of the accompanying voices reflect the bittersweetness of the text.

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