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Hatfield, Stephen: Green Shores of Fogo

Newfundland Folk Song

vocal/choral score

Setting: Upper Voices
Instrumentation: SSA
Length: 5 pages
Format: 16,9 x 26,3 cm (Oktav)
Publisher: Boosey and Hawkes
Item number: BHI5402371
Other reference: BHI 5402371
ISMN: 9790051473823
The Green Shores of Fogo bears marks of Irish provenance, although its musical origins were lost before Kenneth Peacock collected the song from Mrs. John Fogarty in 1952. The tune, which Peacock considered one of the most beautiful modal melodies he had ever heard, has attracted more than one set of lyrics, and is also known in Newfoundland as &ldquo,The Blooming Bright Star of Belle Isle.&rdquo,

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