The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964324
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by : Julia Bishop

Download or read book The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs written by Julia Bishop and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012-06-07 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The English and Scottish Ballads

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Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368635573
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (686 download)

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Book Synopsis The English and Scottish Ballads by : Francis James Child

Download or read book The English and Scottish Ballads written by Francis James Child and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-11 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1898.

A Reference Guide for English Studies

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520321871
Total Pages : 2816 pages
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Book Synopsis A Reference Guide for English Studies by : Michael J. Marcuse

Download or read book A Reference Guide for English Studies written by Michael J. Marcuse and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 2816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Child's Unfinished Masterpiece

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252035941
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Child's Unfinished Masterpiece by : Mary Ellen Brown

Download or read book Child's Unfinished Masterpiece written by Mary Ellen Brown and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The premier scholar of the English-language traditional or popular ballad, Francis James Child spent decades working on his widely read and performed collection, The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. In this first single author monograph of Child's life and work, Mary Ellen Brown analyzes Child's editorial methods, his decisions about which ballads to include, and his relationships with colleagues at Harvard and abroad. Brown draws on his extensive correspondence with collaborators to trace the production of his monumental work from conception and selection through organization and collation of the ballads. Child's Unfinished Masterpiece shows readers what was at stake in Child's search for original manuscript materials housed at libraries and estates far afield and his desire to uncover unedited versions of previous editors' texts. In analyzing Child's letters, Brown also delves into his important network of collaborators, scholars, and friends such as William Macmath, Sven Grundtvig, James Russell Lowell, and Charles Eliot Norton, who influenced the organization and content of his work. Readers learn about the questions Child faced as an editor: whether the materials he gathered were authentic, whether a piece was more ballad or a song, or whether the text was sufficiently old or traditional. In showing Child's struggles with content and organization for The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Brown notes the difficulty in defining the ballad genre while also showing that a clear definition is not a fatal flaw of the volume or to scholars' continued study of it.

Tales of Wonder

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Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770480536
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis Tales of Wonder by : Matthew Gregory Lewis

Download or read book Tales of Wonder written by Matthew Gregory Lewis and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2009-11-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late eighteenth century, Matthew Gregory “Monk” Lewis, a notorious author of lurid Gothic novels and plays, began to gather this collection of horror ballads. Including original and traditional works, translations and adaptations, and even burlesques of the Gothic, this “hobgoblin repast,” as Lewis called it, brings together a fascinating assortment of works. Contributors include Lewis, the young Walter Scott, William Taylor of Norwich, John Leyden, and Robert Southey. Appendices contain selections from Tales of Terror (1801), a text long intertwined with Lewis’s collection; information on Scott’s An Apology for Tales of Terror (1799); and parodies and reviews of Lewis’s particular brand of Gothic poetry.

American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
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Download or read book American Publishers' Circular and Literary Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Victorian Songhunters

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Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 1461674174
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)

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Book Synopsis Victorian Songhunters by : E. David Gregory

Download or read book Victorian Songhunters written by E. David Gregory and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Songhunters is a pioneering history of the rediscovery of vernacular song—street songs that have entered oral tradition and have been passed from generation to generation—in England during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. In the nineteenth century there were four main types of vernacular song: ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, and national songs. The discovery, collecting, editing, and publishing of all four varieties are examined in the book, and over seventy-five selected examples are given for illustrative purposes. Key concepts, such as traditional balladry, broadside balladry, folksong, and national song, are analyzed, as well as the complicated relationship between print and oral tradition and the different methodological approaches to ballad and song editing. Organized chronologically, Victorian Songhunters sketches the history of English song collecting from its beginnings in the mid-seventeenth century; focuses on the work of important individual collectors and editors, such as William Chappell, Francis J. Child, and John Broadwood; examines the growth of regional collecting in various counties throughout England; and demonstrates the considerable efforts of two important Victorian institutions, the Percy Society and its successor, the Ballad Society. The appendixes contain discussions on interpreting songs, an assessment of relevant secondary sources, and a bibliography and alphabetical song list. Author E. David Gregory provides a solid foundation for the scholarly study of balladry and folksong, and makes a significant contribution to our understanding of Victorian intellectual and cultural life.

Songs of England, Ireland, and Scotland: A Bonnie Bunch of Roses [Lyrics & Chords]

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Publisher : Oak Publications
ISBN 13 : 178323492X
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Songs of England, Ireland, and Scotland: A Bonnie Bunch of Roses [Lyrics & Chords] written by Dan Milner and published by Oak Publications. This book was released on 1983-12-31 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional songs from the British Isles, each features guitar chord symbols and special tunings. Informative notes to each song, a discography and a bibliography.

Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317222016
Total Pages : 313 pages
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Book Synopsis Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources by : Laura Sangha

Download or read book Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources written by Laura Sangha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the printing press, ensured that the State, the Church and the people generated texts and objects on an unprecedented scale. This book introduces students to the sources that survived to become indispensable primary material studied by historians. After a wide-ranging introductory essay, part I of the book, ‘Sources’, takes the reader through seven key categories of primary material, including governmental, ecclesiastical and legal records, diaries and literary works, print, and visual and material sources. Each chapter addresses how different types of material were produced, whilst also pointing readers towards the most important and accessible physical and digital source collections. Part II, ‘Histories’, takes a thematic approach. Each chapter in this section explores the sources that are used to address major early modern themes, including political and popular cultures, the economy, science, religion, gender, warfare, and global exploration. This collection of essays by leading historians in their respective fields showcases how practitioners research the early modern period, and is an invaluable resource for any student embarking on their studies of the early modern period.

Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351922009
Total Pages : 233 pages
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Book Synopsis Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England by : Andrew Hadfield

Download or read book Literature and Popular Culture in Early Modern England written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1978 witnessed the publication of Peter Burke's groundbreaking study Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Now in its third edition this remarkable book has for thirty years set the benchmark for cultural historians with its wide ranging and imaginative exploration of early modern European popular culture. In order to celebrate this achievement, and to explore the ways in which perceptions of popular culture have changed in the intervening years a group of leading scholars are brought together in this new volume to examine Burke's thesis in relation to England. Adopting an appropriately interdisciplinary approach, the collection offers an unprecedented survey of the field of popular culture in early modern England as it currently stands, bringing together scholars at the forefront of developments in an expanding area. Taking as its starting point Burke's argument that popular culture was everyone's culture, distinguishing it from high culture, which only a restricted social group could access, it explores an intriguing variety of sources to discover whether this was in fact the case in early modern England. It further explores the meaning and significance of the term 'popular culture' when applied to the early modern period: how did people distinguish between high and low culture - could they in fact do so? Concluded by an Afterword by Peter Burke, the volume provides a vivid sense of the range and significance of early modern popular culture and the difficulties involved in defining and studying it.

Unprepared To Die

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Publisher : Soundcheck Books
ISBN 13 : 099294807X
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (929 download)

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Book Synopsis Unprepared To Die by : Paul Slade

Download or read book Unprepared To Die written by Paul Slade and published by Soundcheck Books. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.

The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191019690
Total Pages : 1011 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 by : Jack Lynch

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of British Poetry, 1660-1800 written by Jack Lynch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-24 with total page 1011 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the poetry published in Britain between the Restoration and the end of the eighteenth century, forty-four authorities from six countries survey the poetry of the age in all its richness and diversity--serious and satirical, public and private, by men and women, nobles and peasants, whether published in deluxe editions or sung on the streets. The contributors discuss poems in social contexts, poetic identities, poetic subjects, poetic form, poetic genres, poetic devices, and criticism. Even experts in eighteenth-century poetry will see familiar poems from new angles, and all readers will encounter poems they've never read before. The book is not a chronologically organized literary history, nor an encyclopaedia, nor a collection of thematically related essays; rather it is an attempt to provide a systematic overview of these poetic works, and to restore it to a position of centrality in modern criticism.

The Publishing and Marketing of Illustrated Literature in Scotland, 1760–1825

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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 161146238X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Book Synopsis The Publishing and Marketing of Illustrated Literature in Scotland, 1760–1825 by : Sandro Jung

Download or read book The Publishing and Marketing of Illustrated Literature in Scotland, 1760–1825 written by Sandro Jung and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ground-breaking contribution to the economic and cultural history of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century publishing of illustrated belles lettres in Scotland, the book offers detailed accounts of numerous agents of prints (booksellers, printers, designers, engravers) and their involvement in the making and marketing of illustrated editions. It examines the ways in which the makers of books not only produced printed visual culture artefacts but also contributed to the ideological inscription of these illustrations to engender patriotic concerns and issues of national identity. The book differs fundamentally from existing interventions in book illustration studies: Examinations of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century British literary book illustrations have, as a rule, been selective rather than broad in scope or systematic in outlook; they have focused on English examples of book illustrations. By contrast, The Publishing and Marketing of Illustrated Literature in Scotland, 1760-1820 studies a large body of illustrated editions andadopts a systematic and decentered (non-London-centered) approach. It focuses on the examination of the production of literary book illustrations in eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Scotland, while at the same time bearing in mind that developments in the marketing of illustrated books need to be understood as part of the cultural and book-historical dynamics of exchange that existed between Scotland and England. Not only does the monograph offer the first large-scale study of the subject, contextualizing literary book illustrations in terms of the ideologically defined ventures as part of which they were issued, but it also draws a map of illustrated works that has not been imagined yet by scholars of the history of the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century book. In doing so, the book provides an account of the publishing of belles lettres and the various strategies that bookseller-publishers deployed to market their editions competitively in both Scotland and England.

The Folk Handbook

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Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879309015
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis The Folk Handbook by : John Morrish

Download or read book The Folk Handbook written by John Morrish and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the great songs that have inspired performers around the world in the last 50 years come from the English folk song tradition. This book provides words and melodies for nearly 100 songs, along with an exploration of their history and meaning, the context in which they arose, and their value to writers and performers around the world.

Textual Sources for the Study of Judaism

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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226012971
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis Textual Sources for the Study of Judaism by : Philip S. Alexander

Download or read book Textual Sources for the Study of Judaism written by Philip S. Alexander and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alexander assembles material from Scripture and tradition, through religious law and ethical literature to a section on Society and the Jews, and prefaces the whole with an admirable introduction."—Jonathan Sacks, Jewish Chronicle "The texts . . . which are drawn from over two thousand years of history, are usefully divided, annotated and glossed. They enable students to explore the tradition in a new way [and] give a marvellous insight into the richness and liveliness of the Jewish religion and culture: we are given wit and pathos in addition to popular story and religious law."—Janet Trotter, Resource

The Publishers' Circular

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 750 pages
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Where'd He Get That?

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0615742629
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book Where'd He Get That? written by Margo Ruark and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-06-04 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With foreword by Rev. Dr. Jane Claypool "...A monumental achievement. Every minister in the field will want to have and use a copy right now!" The definitive cross reference between The Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes and the Holy Bible. With over 750 references to Bible verses, this reference is a must have for ministers, translators, and teachers. Completely revised and updated to include other source references! Compliments existing material on the Allegorical Bible, Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism and all entry level classes with the textbook.