SAMPLE. A Swedish Melody. Robert Sieving, Arranger. Kjos String Orchestra Grade 3 1 /2 Full Conductor Score SO279F $6.00

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1 Robert Sieving, Arranger Kjos String Orchestra Grade 3 / Full Conductor Score SO79F $6.00 A Swedish Melody Neil A. Kjos Music Coany Publisher

2 The Arrangement The Arranger Robert Sieving (b. 94) is a Minneaolis-based cooser, arranger, and retired high school choral music educator. He received his B.S. and M.S. in Vocal Music Education from St. Cloud State University. In addition to his ieces for string orchestra, Mr. Sieving is active as a cooser and arranger of choral works. His coositions are in the active catalogs of a number of major ublishers, including I Lift U My Eyes and Calloway County, both of which are ublished by the Neil A. Kjos Music Coany. He has served as resident of the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) of Minnesota, and is a ast reciient of the ACDA of Minnesota Conductor of the Year Award and the Plymouth Music Series (now VocalEssence) Award for Creative Programming. A Swedish Melody (Ack Värmeland, du Sköna) is an outstanding reresentative of a certain quality inherent in many Scandinavian folk melodies. The song is imbued with a dee sense of lace and a love of nature; a haunting, yearning sentiment is resent, as if reminding the listener of love of family, country, and a way of life. The folk qualities in the tonal language and the hrasing are echoed in many of the choral coositions and arrangements from Sweden and Norway beginning with the surge of Scandinavian nationalism in the 9th century. As a choral conductor and educator, I have grown to areciate this genre of unaccoanied choral literature, and have sought to emulate that style and feeling in this arrangement for string orchestra. The choral style, then, is key in aroaching A Swedish Melody. Careful attention should be aid to the natural rise and fall of the hrases, maintaining a lush, legato ensemble sound, and keeing good intonation, both in octave tuning and close inner harmonies. The exelary sound of Scandinavian and Baltic choirs is rich and lustrous yet clear and somewhat transarent, roviding the ossibility of endless insiration for tonal exressivity. A few suggestions to conductors: In the introduction, the isolated quarter-notes should blend seamlessly into the sustained background (exale: Viola, m. 3) use a light bow hand in these assages. Students should work to eliminate oen strings whenever ossible to kee a smooth vibrato going throughout. Proer balance must be maintained between the melody and suorting harmonies where all arts have the same dynamic level. Mild syncoation should be treated subtly without undue accenting (ex: Bass, mm. 8-3). Instrumentation List (Set C) 8 st Violin 8 nd Violin 5 3 rd Violin (Viola T.C.) 5 Viola 5 5 String Bass Full Conductor Score Additional scores and arts are available. SO79

3 Full Conductor Score Arox. time 3:40 Violins Viola String Bass Legato e esressivo (q = c.76) free bowing 7 8 A Swedish Melody Ack Värmeland, du Sköna Swedish Folk Song Arranged by Robert Sieving 009 Neil A. Kjos Music Coany, 438 Jutland Drive, San Diego, California 97. International coyright secured. All rights reserved. Printed in U.S.A. WARNING! The contents of this ublication are rotected by coyright law. To coy or reroduce them by any method is an infringement of the coyright law. Anyone who reroduces coyrighted matter is subject to substantial enalties and assessments for each infringement. SO79

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