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These are adaptations of four easy-to-medium difficulty folk songs that can be treated either as songs with C-recorder accompaniment and voice or as duos for soprano and tenor recorders. The original tunes were collected by Cecil Sharp (1869-1924) and published in 1916 for voice and piano, and can be found at IMSLP at https://imslp.org/wiki/100_English_Folksongs_(Sharp,_Cecil). The composer has created brand-new recorder accompaniments with innovative harmonies, new meters, key changes and occasional nods to the piano version. There are some high C’s in the recorder part, but otherwise the music sits pretty comfortably in the range. Each song is three pages and in order of appearance from the original edition, they are #62 “The Lark in the Morn” (not “moon” as IMSLP erroneously lists it), #55 “The True Lover’s Farewell”, #35 “The Cuckoo” and #36 “Blackbirds and Thrushes”.