Yellow Bird: 5 Caribbean Songs are arranged for Recorder Quartet by Marg Hall. This collection is comprised of:

1. Yellow Bird: Originally called 'Choucoune', this is a 19th century Haitian song composed by Michel Mauléart Morton

2. Sloop John B: is a Bahamian folk song from Nassau. It was recorded by the Beach Boys in a folk-rock adaptation in 1966

3. Day-O!: A traditional Jamaican folk song - a call-and-response work song made famous by Harry Belafonte in 1956

4. Linstead market: A Jamaican folk song that tells of a mother who take fruit to the market but doesn't sell any.

5. Tingalayo: A Jamaican folk song about all the things the donkey can do. Some versions contain the memorable lines "Me donkey walk, me donkey talk, me donkey eat with a knife and fork!"

The composer Marg Hall discovered the recorder as an adult, having earlier learned piano and classical guitar. She has taught the recorder in the Edinburgh area for many years. Her compositions and arrangements have been published firstly by Hawthorns music, and latterly by Peacock Press. She has been a member of the recorder consort 'Solsequium' for many years, and am a member of the Scottish Recorder Orchestra. She is also a founder-member [in 1978] of the 'Hadley Court Singers'. 

Score: 11 pages. 4 parts @ 4 pages ea. 

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