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Table of ContentsTitle Composer/Origin Page Page

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1. Saint Paul's Steeple English Folk Song 3 32. A Mighty Fortress Chorale Melody 3 .43. In Springtime German Folk Song 3 54. Lullaby Johannes Brahms 4 65. Steal Away Spiritual 4 76. The Spacious Firmament Joseph Haydn .4 87. Finlandia Jean Sibelius 5 98. In Olden Times German FolkSong 5 109. Coventry Carol Old English Carol 6 11

10. Austrian Hymn joseph Haydn 6 1211. Hymn to Joy Ludwig van Beethoven 6 1312. Go Dawn, Moses Spiritual 7 1413. Song ofThanksgiving Netherlands Air 7..: 1514. Dona Nobis Pacem Old Raund Melady 7 1615. America, the Beautiful.. Samuel A. Ward 8 1716. The Sandman Jahannes Brahms 8 1817. Little Maiden Moravian Falk Sang 8 1918. Nacturne Felix Mendelssahn 9 2019. Harvest Dance :: Czech Falk Sang 9 2220. A German Waltz German Falk Sang 10 2321. Greensleeves Old English Air 10 2422. The Nightingale German Folk Sang 10 2523. Village Dance French Folk Song 11. 2624. Waltz Johannes Brahms 11 27

About the ArrangerFrancis Grant was a member of the Cleveland Orchestra during the years when it was conducted byNikolai Sokoloff and Arthur Rodzinski. Follawing his retirement from active orchestral playing, hedevated his full time to teaching and the study af performance practices of early music on the cella andthe viola da gamba. Solo and ensemble recitals of these instruments have rounded out a perfarmancecareer that culminated in the writing and editing af numerous pedagagical warks. His extensiveexperience in teaching has resulted in the publication af study materials that are bath practical andeffective in the develapment af yaung cellists.

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