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Ashokan Farewell Fingerstyle Guitar Arrangement by Jay Ungar Acoustic Guitar - Sheet Music

By Jay Ungar
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Guitar - intermediate

SKU: MB.31133

Composed by Jay Ungar. This edition: Saddle Stitch. Guitar , Folk, Fingerpicking Guitar, Guitar Solo. Folk. Sheet Music. 4 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #31133. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.31133).

ISBN 9781513471549. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.

Renowned fiddler and composer Jay Ungar and Molly Mason, his musical partner and wife, have run the Ashokan Fiddle and Dance Camp in upstate New York for many years. Jay wrote "Ashokan Farewell" in 1982 at the camp season's end, to express the sense of loss he felt after the departure of the musical community. The melody's sweet, haunting sadness proved to be a perfect match for Ken Burns's 1990 PBS series The Civil War, which introduced it to millions of viewers.

In this fingerstyle guitar arrangement, the bass line enters as an ascending response to the melody, which is then harmonized in sixths and thirds the second time through. The arrangement is a good study in position shifting up and down the fingerboard, and provides a great showcase for dynamic and tonal nuance in the phrasing of the melody. It is an excellent concert selection and will be a popular addition to the repertoire of any fingerstyle player, on either steel- or nylon-string guitar. Written in standard notation and tablature.

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