Shepherd's Hey
Shepherd's Hey
This is popular tune known to folk musicians, and there are many different variations. Shepherd's Hey is included in the Three Folk Tunes for Secondary Schools pack collated for The Full English schools projects that Oli Matthews was involved in at Horizon Community Academy, Barnsley and Stantonbury Campus, Milton Keynes.
These projects worked with students at Key Stages 3 and 4 (11-15years), and aimed to use folk music to increase confidence and skills regarding composition, improvisation, arranging and performance skills. The projects also emphasised the important relationship between folk music and dance.
The 3 tunes presented here: Shepherd’s Hey, Curly Headed Ploughboy and Speed the Plough are all used for dances. In both schools, we worked with dance students too, and encouraged musicians and dancers to work together to see how live music and dance can, and do, respond to each other and produce something greater than the sum of its parts.
All the tunes can be found in The Full English digital archive (www.vwml.org). Sometimes there are different versions of one tune as they were collected from different players across the country, at different times, by different collectors. The links to the relevant items in the digital archive are provided throughout.
You can download the pack from the PDF tab.
You can download the audio resources for Shepherd's Hey from the audio tab.
The complete audio resources for Three Folk Tunes for Secondary Schools are available from its own page.
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