My Father ’ S World

Grade Level 3

Year: 2017

Composer: Stephen Bulla

Program Notes:

Here is a pastoral setting of this beautiful traditional English melody. The words to the hymn however were written by a pastor in Lockport (New York) while hiking through farms and orchards near his home. He would often say, “I’m going out to see my Father’s world.” And indeed the song’s lyrics speak of “rocks and trees, of skies and seas; His hand the wonders wrought.” In this arrangement the melody is well suited to the Horn’s warm and lyrical qualities.

American Instrumental Ensemble Series (AIES/ABES)