English Folk Songs

Author : Julia Bishop,Steve Roud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141964324

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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by Julia Bishop,Steve Roud Pdf

One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012 'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we've received orders for to sail for old England But we hope in a short while to see you again' One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub; they have bewitched generations of English composers who have set them for everything from solo violin to full orchestra; they are sung in concerts, festivals, weddings, funerals and with nobody to hear but the singer. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning. Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L.Lloyd's original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 'Her keen eye did glitter like the bright stars by night The robe she was wearing was costly and white Her bare neck was shaded with her long raven hair And they called her pretty Susan, the pride of Kildare' In association with EFDSS, the English Folk Dance and Song Society

Author : Cecil James Sharp
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486231921

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One Hundred English Folksongs by Cecil James Sharp Pdf

Lyrics and piano music for traditional ballads and songs collected from singers throughout Britain are accompanied by notes on their probable origins, related versions, and historical allusions

Author : Francis James Child
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : IOWA:31858001776420

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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : UCSC:32106007568758

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A Beuk O' Newcassel Sangs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571309733

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Folk Song in England by Steve Roud Pdf

In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure. But after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - Where did the songs come from? Who sang them, where, when and why? What part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? More importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding? This is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in England, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many more.

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141932880

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English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams Pdf

This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside - but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land - as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man's relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN : OCLC:10536841

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English Folk-songs by Anonim Pdf

Author : Cecil J. Sharp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1935243209

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English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians by Cecil J. Sharp Pdf

First published in 1932, Cecil Sharp's English Folk-Songs from the Southern Appalachians contains 274 songs -- ballads, songs, hymns, nursery songs, jigs, and play-party games -- with 968 tunes, collected between 1916 and 1918 from traditional singers in the mountains of Virginia, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee. It remains one of the foundational collections of American folk music.

Author : A. L. Llloyd,R. Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:758007836

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The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by A. L. Llloyd,R. Vaughan Williams Pdf

Author : John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486319926

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American Ballads and Folk Songs by John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax Pdf

Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

Author : Ewan Maccoll,Peggy Seeger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317292272

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Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland by Ewan Maccoll,Peggy Seeger Pdf

Originally published in 1977. The Travellers, from those living in bow-tents and horse-drawn caravans to those dwelling in motor caravans and permanent homes, are an important source of traditional music. Their society means that songs that have died out in more settled communities are preserved among them. Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, widely known as two of the founding singers of the British and American folk revivals, here display a vast fund of folklore scholarship around the songs of British travelling people. Resulting from extensive collecting in southern and southeastern England and central and northeastern Scotland in the 1960s and 70s, this book contains 130 songs with music and comprehensive notes relating them to folkloristic and historical points of interest. It includes traditional ballads and ballads of broadside origin, bawdy, tragic and humorous songs about love, work and death. Most are in English or in Scots dialect with four in Anglo-Romani.

Author : Frank Kidson,Mary Neal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781107698253

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English Folk-Song and Dance by Frank Kidson,Mary Neal Pdf

Originally published in 1915, this volume provides a concise introduction to English folk songs and folk dances.

Author : John Stokoe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1978-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 084928046X

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Songs and Ballads of Northern England by John Stokoe Pdf

Author : G. F. Northall
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000118485733

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English Folk-rhymes by G. F. Northall Pdf

Author : Peter Bowman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Music
ISBN : 1847614981

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English Folk Tunes for Descant Recorder by Peter Bowman Pdf

(Schott). 'English Folk Tunes for Descant Recorder' is a collection of 62 arrangements for descant recorder, of traditional tunes including a range of styles such as Ballads, Hornpipes, Jigs and more. Experienced recorder player and co-author of the Baroque Recorder Anthology series, and Fun and Games with the Recorder series amongst others, Peter Bowman provides notes on all of the styles covered, as well as individual pieces. The volume is accompanied bya recording of all tunes performed by Kathryn Bennetts. German and French translations of all texts are available as pdf downloads from the Schott Music website as well as MP3 play-along tracks. Suitable for players of grades 3-8.