The Penguin Book Of English Folk Songs

Author : Julia Bishop,Steve Roud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Keith Campbell MacMillan
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Music
ISBN : IND:39000013341685

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The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs by Keith Campbell MacMillan Pdf

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Author : A. L. Llloyd,R. Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Steve Roud
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Richard Stokes
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 976 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780141982557

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The Penguin Book of English Song by Richard Stokes Pdf

The Penguin Book of English Song anthologizes the work of 100 English poets who have inspired a host of different composers (some English, some not) to write vocal music. Each of the chapters, arranged chronologically from Chaucer to Auden, opens with a precis of the poet's life, work and, often, approach to music. Richard Stokes's notes and commentaries constantly illuminate the language and themes of the poems and their settings in unexpected ways. An awareness of how Ben Jonson based his famous poem 'Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes' on a Greek original, for example, increases our enjoyment of both the poem and the traditional song; knowledge of Thomas Hardy's relationships with women deepens our appreciation of songs by Ireland, Finzi, Britten and others; Charles Dibdin's 'Tom Bowling', played each year at the Last Night of the Proms, takes on a deeper resonance when we know that it was written after the death of his brother Tom, a sea captain struck by lightning in the Indian Ocean. Many composers of different nationalities appear, but the book remains quintessentially British, and includes pieces that have an established place in our national consciousness: 'Rule, Britannia' (James Thomson), 'Abide with me' (Henry Francis Lyte), 'Auld lang syne' (Robert Burns), 'Jerusalem' (William Blake), 'Once in royal David's city' (Mrs C. F. Alexander), and even 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star' (Jane Taylor). The poems are printed in their original versification and spelling, enabling us to trace the development of the English language as the book progresses. The volume presents a huge amount of information about English Song that will enlighten all those who delight in the fusion of words and music. The presence of minor as well as major poets and the unique principle of selection make The Penguin Book of English Song a highly original anthology of English verse.

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Ralph Vaughan Williams,Albert Lancaster Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Folk songs, English
ISBN : OCLC:460717444

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The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams,Albert Lancaster Lloyd Pdf

Author : A. L. Llloyd,R. Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Peter Harrop,Steve Roud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000401592

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The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance by Peter Harrop,Steve Roud Pdf

This broad-based collection of essays is an introduction both to the concerns of contemporary folklore scholarship and to the variety of forms that folk performance has taken throughout English history. Combining case studies of specific folk practices with discussion of the various different lenses through which they have been viewed since becoming the subject of concerted study in Victorian times, this book builds on the latest work in an ever-growing body of contemporary folklore scholarship. Many of the contributing scholars are also practicing performers and bring experience and understanding of performance to their analyses and critiques. Chapters range across the spectrum of folk song, music, drama and dance, but maintain a focus on the key defining characteristics of folk performance – custom and tradition – in a full range of performances, from carol singing and sword dancing to playground rhymes and mummers' plays. As well as being an essential reference for folklorists and scholars of traditional performance and local history, this is a valuable resource for readers in all disciplines of dance, drama, song and music whose work coincides with English folk traditions.

Author : John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Steve Roud,Julia Bishop
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141194622

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

The definitive collection of folk music - one of the great English popular art forms One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. 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.

Author : Stephen Sedley,Martin Carthy
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781789145021

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Who Killed Cock Robin? by Stephen Sedley,Martin Carthy Pdf

Now in paperback, an entertaining and enlightening compendium at the intersection of two great British folk traditions: song and encounters with the law. At the heart of traditional songs rest the concerns of ordinary people. And folk throughout the centuries have found themselves entangled with the law: abiding by it, breaking it, and being caught and punished by it. Who Killed Cock Robin? is an anthology of just such songs compiled by one of Britain’s most senior judges, Stephen Sedley, and best-loved folk singers, Martin Carthy. The songs collected here are drawn from manuscripts, broadsides, and oral tradition. They are grouped according to the various categories of crime and punishment, from Poaching to the Gallows. Each section contains a historical introduction, and every song is presented with a melody, lyrics, and an illuminating commentary that explores its origins and sources. Together, they present unique, sometimes comic, often tragic, and always colorful insight into the past, while preserving an important body of song for future generations.

Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Folk songs, English
ISBN : OCLC:802156361

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The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams Pdf

Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1004 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780141941622

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The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland by Steve Roud Pdf

Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it's unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why does breaking a mirror lead to misfortune? This fascinating collection answers these and many other questions about the world of superstitions and forms an endlessly browsable guide to a subject that continues to obsess and intrigue.