The most famous arrangement of the piece begins with a solo violin, later accompanied by guitar and upright bass. Jay Ungar describes the song as coming out of "a sense of loss and longing" after the annual Ashokan Music & Dance Camps ended. The piece is a waltz in D major, composed in the style of a Scottish lament (e.g., Niel Gow's "Lament for His Second Wife"). Despite its late date of composition, it was included in the 1991 compilation album Songs of the Civil War. The tune was used as the title theme of the 1990 PBS television miniseries The Civil War. For many years, it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps, run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who gave the tune its name, at the Ashokan Field Campus of SUNY New Paltz (now the Ashokan Center) in Upstate New York. " Ashokan Farewell" / ə ˈ ʃ oʊ ˌ k æ n/ is a piece of music composed by the American folk musician Jay Ungar in 1982. Problems playing this file? See media help.
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