We have a collection of 12 arrangements for Jay Ungar - Ashokan Farewell
What poignant American waltz, often mistaken for a genuine 19th-century folk melody, was actually composed in the 1980s for a documentary? Learn!
"Ashokan Farewell" is a hauntingly beautiful waltz composed by Jay Ungar in 1983. It achieved widespread fame as the signature theme of Ken Burns' monumental documentary series "The Civil War." Despite its sound deeply evocative of 19th-century American folk music, it is a completely original contemporary composition. The piece is named after the Ashokan Field Campus of SUNY New Paltz, a place of great significance to Ungar and his music community.