Category: Folk Music
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Bach in the Arms of an Angel
Sarah McLachlan’s “Angel”, released in 1997 on the album Surfacing, mesmerized a generation of listeners and remained on major Billboard charts for extended periods. It has now been recomposed into a self-accompanied cello piece in F major, a transposition chosen to take advantage of the cello’s open strings.
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Barokan Farewell
You’ve heard Ashokan Farewell even if you don’t think you know it. You’ve heard it in a TV show, a film, or a documentary about the Civil War. Chances are, if someone played you the first bar, you could hum the rest. What if one were to write a somewhat Baroque-sounding variation of Ashokan Farewell, as a self-accompanied cello music?