Folk Song Index

Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 50,8 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 : Francis James Child
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 0486431452

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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child Pdf

The rich field of English balladry was virgin territory before Francis James Child entered it. The few published ballad editions that existed were unreliable, filled with unacknowledged editorial changes and distortions of the original manuscripts. Professor Child compiled all the extant ballads with all known variants, and made them available for the first time — together with his invaluable commentary that prefaces each work — in a single source that maintained absolute fidelity to the original texts. Published between 1882 and 1898, the original ten-part study became the definitive collection of popular ballads in the English language, never to be superceded. To this day, scholars and devotees speak of "The Child Ballads" with the awe and respect generated by few other literary works. Volume 1: Parts I and II of the original set, ballads 1-53 including "Edward," "Lord Randal," "Tam Lin," "Lady Isabel and the Elf-Knight," "Earl Brand," "Thomas Rymer," more. Biographical sketch of Child by Prof. Kittredge, Child's portrait, additions and corrections.

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 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 : Julia Bishop,Steve Roud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Florence E. Brunnings
Publisher : New York : Garland Pub.
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Bibliography
ISBN : UOM:49015002903707

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Folk Song Index by Florence E. Brunnings Pdf

Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780141919270

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The English Year by Steve Roud Pdf

This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year’s Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow Hobby Horse procession, cheese rolling in Gloucestershire and Easter Monday bottle kicking in Leeds, it explains how they originated, what they mean and when they occur. A fascinating guide to the richness of our heritage and the sometimes eccentric nature of life in England, The English Year offers a unique chronological view of our social customs and attitudes

Author : Ellen Luchinsky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1384 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135659264

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The Song Index of the Enoch Pratt Free Library by Ellen Luchinsky Pdf

The Song Index features over 150,000 citations that lead users to over 2,100 song books spanning more than a century, from the 1880s to the 1990s. The songs cited represent a multitude of musical practices, cultures, and traditions, ranging from ehtnic to regional, from foreign to American, representing every type of song: popular, folk, children's, political, comic, advertising, protest, patriotic, military, and classical, as well as hymns, spirituals, ballads, arias, choral symphonies, and other larger works. This comprehensive volume also includes a bibliography of the books indexed; an index of sources from which the songs originated; and an alphabetical composer index.

Author : John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 46,6 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 : Ron Edwards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989-09-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0909901899

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Appendix A by Ron Edwards Pdf

Author : Cecil James Sharp
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 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 : Norman Cazden,Herbert Haufrecht,Norman Studer
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 0873955803

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Folk Songs of the Catskills by Norman Cazden,Herbert Haufrecht,Norman Studer Pdf

Traditional songs from the Catskill area of New York State are accompanied by detailed discusssions of their roots, development, musical structure, and subject matter

Author : Minnie Earl Sears,Phyllis Crawford
Publisher : [n.p.] : Shoe String Press
Page : 1102 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Songs
ISBN : UOM:39015035127938

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Song Index by Minnie Earl Sears,Phyllis Crawford Pdf

Author : Hal Leonard Corp
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 1881322149

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Rise Up Singing by Hal Leonard Corp Pdf

Lyrics and guitar chords for traditional and modern folk songs.

Author : Alan Lomax
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351519663

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Folk Song Style and Culture by Alan Lomax Pdf

Song and dance style--viewed as nonverbal communications about culture--are here related to social structure and cultural history. Patterns of performance, theme, text and movement are analyzed in large samples of films an recordings from the whole range of human culture, according to the methods explained in this volume. Cantometrics, which means song as a measure of man, finds that traditions of singing trace the main historic distributions of human culture and that specific traits of performance are communications about identifiable aspects of society. The predictable and universal relations between expressive communication and social organization, here established for the first time, open up the possibility of a scientific aesthetics, useful to planners.

Author : Vadim Prokhorov
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781461701828

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Russian Folk Songs by Vadim Prokhorov Pdf

"Russian folk songs are a living history of the Russian people, rich, vivid and truthful, revealing their entire life," wrote the great Russian writer Nikolai Gogol. Russian folk songs have always played an essential part in Russian life, culture, and music. They have played an important part in the work of many great Russian composers including Glinka, Rimsky-Korsakov, Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Prokoviev, and Stravinsky. In this new study, Vadim Prokhorov provides a historical survey and a description of the musical and poetic characteristics of Russian folk song. The songs themselves are classified into several categories: calendar songs, lyric songs, work songs, epic songs, historical songs, and the urban songs that emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries. Prokhorov provides a basis for understanding the ethnomusicological principles of Russian folk song. In addition to his discussion of the various categories, he includes a generous selection of songs arranged for voice and piano, together with texts and translations of the song texts. Anyone interested in this rich repertory of folk song, whether as teacher, singer, or music lover, will find this a rewarding collection.