Two Songs from Sommerset

Sommerset is a mostly rural area in southwest England. This arrangement incorporates two contrasting folk tunes from the region: Waly, Waly (a.k.a. The Water Is Wide) is taken (with many liberties) from the setting by Cecil Sharp in Novello's School Songs published in 1908; it is a lyric tune with flowing melodic lines, while Blow Away the Morning Dew plays in a very light mood and bounces throughout.