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BRITISH FOLK-MUSIC SETTINGS.
(Lovingly and reverenetly dedicated to the memory of Edvard Grieg)
Nr 4. "SHEPHERD'S HEY". MORRIS DANCE TUNE.
(By kind permission of Novello & Co Ltd.)
4 variants, collected by
Cecil J. Sharp
from the playing of the fiddler of the Bidford Morris dances (1906,) J. Mason, (Stow on the Wold,)
W. Hathaway (Cheltenham) & William Wells (Bampton.)
Dished up for piano
by
PERCY ALDRIDGE GRAINGER,
for setting for full band see BRITISH FOLK-MUSIC SETTINGS Nr 16.
for setting for room-music 12-some (flute, clarinet, horn, Cnocertina, &
8 strings) see BRITISH FOLK-MUSIC SETTINGS Nr 3.
See: MORRIS DANCE TUNES [set 2, Nr 4] (Novello & Co Ltd..)
and THE MORRIS BOOK (Novello & Co Ltd.)
both by Cecil J. Sharp & Herbert C. Macilwaine.
All held within the above square is meant to be used in full in programs, where possible.
This setting is not suitable to dance Morris dances to.
All big stretches may be played broken (harped).
FAST. (Presto) MM between 96 and 116
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below a note means that the last pedal is to be raised at the moment of striking the keys and pressed down again
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Begin (as low as possible) & end (as

high as possible) on any notes