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Shenandoah
Traditional, arr. Jay Althouse (b. 1951)

With varying titles of this same folk song, “Shenandoah” is a traditional folk song from the Americas, dating back to an origination in the early nineteenth century. This song is popular within the area of Shenandoah University, with the melody of this song being recontextualized by the Virginia Legislature as the official traditional song of Virginia in 2015. Serving as another arrangement by Jay Althouse with a more grandiose and purposeful harmonic expansion that modulates the melody into new tonal highs.