A while back, I heard a person playing on a whistle “Going Home” from Dvorak’s New World Symphony. It was fantastic. Any idea where I might find whistle-friendly sheet music for it?
There’s a short bit of it in The Whistler’s Pocket Companion, but I’m expecting someone to do better than that.
could it be this one?
That’s it. Also known as Symphony in E Minor, from New World 2nd movement.
If you want to play it in D, it starts on an F sharp.
Here are the dots in the key of D. Along with the dulicmer tab. Lots of other great songs here too. Songs are listed alphabetically scroll down to find “Going Home”.
http://everythingdulcimer.com/tab/#256
Cheers,
Kathy 
'E were a grrrand baker, mi dad. (Tee hee. That should confuse the non-UK Chiffers.) 
Aye. It were a long way oop that 'ill, but coming down…!
Thanks to you all.
Ah! I see! Its been transposed from E minor to B minor key (signature)!
Huh? Care to explain?
Since I am just learning to read music, I might be wrong about the key. My understanding is that if there are 2 sharps and the last note ends on a D, That most likely it is in the key of D. I would appreciate an explanation of how it is the b minor key for future reference.
Thanks,
Kathy
Key Signature of E minor and G major = same thang
Key signature of B minor and D major = same thang
Its just that if something with a G tonic in the original is expressed as being in E minor
(for whatever reason)
it is more covenient when its transposed to D tonic to express it as transposed to key of B minor
(rather than as key of D) .
For consistency you see.
Otherwise, for those not familiar with the piece, it may create momentary confusion and askance.
But even that has its delights and made me to laugh
(at myself).
Also orchestral music compositions are multi-modal and the key
signature for the staff notation does not dictate a single tonic for
all the different strands of music within the piece.
Ultimately the piece will resolve harmonically into the key
that the composer has in mind, for instance in the piece in question
it will all resolve to E natural minor.
Let me use an example with the key signature in D (also denotes B minor).
Let’s say I’ve written a composition for 3 instruments and the predominant chord is D major.
Now, in this piece I’m using an Irish flute and it is playing a strand with an A tonic (Mixolydian mode)
and I also have a sarangi playing a strand with a D tonic (Ionian mode)
and a bouzouki doing Phrygian riffs (with F# tonic) and regular strums of D major chord.
For the purpose of this “unison” of musical strands, the piece must be written in
D major. However you will see that singling out one instrument’s strand
- let’s say the bouzouki -
and saying its in D major does not help our modal
appreciation and understanding of the strand.
The key signature is only relevant to how the piece of music is staff
notated and serves
as an index to what the tonics in the piece may be.
It would be more useful to say the bouzouki plays with F# tonic in a D major piece.
A DISTILLATION.
“Going Home” is a pentatonic piece within the major scale range.
Its upward motion omits the 4th and the 7th and its downward motion
omits the 6th and the 4th.
It could be considered Raag Deshkar in ascent and Raag Hans-dhwani in descent.
hence the practise of the following Raag modes may enhance the performance
of the piece of music:-
(using D tonic)
D E F# A B A B D+ (going up)
E+ D+ C# F# A F# E D (coming down)
It’s completely clear to me now! 
Ditto 
:roll: I see! It’s that mode thing again. One of these days, I will understand exactly what they are about. I get that modes give the music a kind of “mood” so I do kind of get what you are saying. Thank you for taking the time to explain it. 
I never realized that you could mix modes. That’s neat.
Cheers,
Kathy
Darling. people like you should just follow the Dots
and let people like us laugh (at ourselves).
You do that again and I will have to post that picture of my head exploding!!!
Yikes, I vote for just following the dots and enjoying the music!!!
I vote for conceiving the music. Its orgastic.
Do you think that Gypsies and other folk musicians who dont read music
dont enjoy it?
I like to join in with pieces I have never heard before. As long as I know the tonic note and the scale (major, nat. minor, dorian or whatever) I can play along instantaneously. Even if I don’t have the melody down pat whatever I play will be in tune and complement the piece. of course musical sensitivity is also necessary.
Following the dots in anything but symphonic music is like making love while reading a how to manual. Whatever turns you on, I suppose.
Our pipe band has played that thing so often that it makes me ill to even think of it. I guess it’s a nice tune, I’ve just heard it way too much…it’s just that slow airs are pretty boring for a flourishing tenor drummer.
Oh, I know that. I think that was just my way of saying, “I envy you your talent!!!” 