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Author : Vaughan Williams Memorial Library,English Folk Dance and Song Society
Publisher : [London] : Mansell
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Folk dancing
ISBN : UOM:39015028903741
Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141932880
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 : Steve Roud
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571309733
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 : Vaughan Williams Memorial Library London
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:312254125
Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Folk songs, English
ISBN : 0854181784
Author : Cecil James Sharp
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1290757984
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Stephen Sedley,Martin Carthy
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781789145021
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 : George B Gardiner,Cecil James Folk-Songs of Eng Sharp
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014050243
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : F. W. Bussell,S. Baring-Gould,H. Fleetwood Sheppard
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664605368
This is a collection of folk songs from the West of England, specifically Devon and Cornwall. The songs were collected from the mouths of the people by various authors, including F. W. Bussell, S. Baring-Gould, and H. Fleetwood Sheppard, and edited by Cecil J. Sharp. The book includes a wide range of songs on various themes, including love, work, and local legends and traditions of the West of England. Some of the songs are well-known, such as "John Barleycorn" and "Widdicombe Fair," while others are more obscure.
Author : Peter Harrop,Steve Roud
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 814 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000401592
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 : Cecil J. Sharp
Publisher : Alpha Edition
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9353703948
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Janet Adshead-Lansdale,June Layson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-05-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134876860
Originally published in 1983 the first edition rapidly established itself as a core student text. Now fully revised and up-dated it remains the only book to address the rationale, process, techniques and methodologies specific to the study of dance history. For the main body of the text which covers historical studies of dance in its traditional and performance contexts, the editors have brought together a team of internationally known dance historians. Roger Copeland and Deborah Jowitt each take a controversial look at the modern American dance. Kenneth Archer and Millicent Hodson explain the processes they use when reconstructing 'lost' ballets, and Theresa Buckland and Georgina Gore write on traditional dance in England and West Africa respectively. With other contributions on social dance, ballet, early European modern dance and feminist perspectives on dance history this book offers a multitude of starting points for studying dance history as well as presenting examples of dance writing at its very best. Dance History will be an essential purchase for all students of dance.
Author : Folk-Song Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Folk songs
ISBN : IND:30000131030995
List of members in each volume.
Author : Frank Kidson
Publisher : Sanford Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781443772907
PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written too on the art of fishing but loch-fishing has been rather looked upon as a second-rate performance, and to dispel this idea is one of the objects for which this present treatise has been written. Far be it from us to say anything against fishing, lawfully practised in any form but many pent up in our large towns will bear us out when me say that, on the whole, a days loch-fishing is the most convenient. One great matter is, that the loch-fisher is depend- ent on nothing but enough wind to curl the water, -and on a large loch it is very seldom that a dead calm prevails all day, -and can make his arrangements for a day, weeks beforehand whereas the stream- fisher is dependent for a good take on the state of the water and however pleasant and easy it may be for one living near the banks of a good trout stream or river, it is quite another matter to arrange for a days river-fishing, if one is looking forward to a holiday at a date some weeks ahead. Providence may favour the expectant angler with a good day, and the water in order but experience has taught most of us that the good days are in the minority, and that, as is the case with our rapid running streams, -such as many of our northern streams are, -the water is either too large or too small, unless, as previously remarked, you live near at hand, and can catch it at its best. A common belief in regard to loch-fishing is, that the tyro and the experienced angler have nearly the same chance in fishing, -the one from the stern and the other from the bow of the same boat. Of all the absurd beliefs as to loch-fishing, this is one of the most absurd. Try it. Give the tyro either end of the boat he likes give him a cast of ally flies he may fancy, or even a cast similar to those which a crack may be using and if he catches one for every three the other has, he may consider himself very lucky. Of course there are lochs where the fish are not abundant, and a beginner may come across as many as an older fisher but we speak of lochs where there are fish to be caught, and where each has a fair chance. Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler. Well, we dont deny that. In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing...
Author : Shirley Collins
Publisher : SAF Publishing Ltd
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 0946719667
At the age of 19 Shirley Collins was making a name for herself as a folk singer in post-war London. At a party she met famous American musical historian and folklorist, Alan Lomax and they became romantically involved. This is an account of the year of her life spent as Lomax's assistant and lover in America.