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The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

Author : Julia Bishop
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964324
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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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 608 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

English Folk Songs

Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141932880
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book English Folk Songs written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Folk Song in England

Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571309739
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Folk Song in England written by Steve Roud and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

One Hundred English Folksongs

Author : Cecil James Sharp
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486231925
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (862 download)

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Download or read book One Hundred English Folksongs written by Cecil James Sharp and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Author : Francis James Child
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The English and Scottish Popular Ballads written by Francis James Child and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Folk-song and Dance

Author : Frank Kidson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book English Folk-song and Dance written by Frank Kidson and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The work here reprinted is essentially in two parts, an examination of the history of the English folk-song by Frank Kidson, together with a similar analysis of the English folk-dance by Mary Neal"--Dust jacket flap.

English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians

Author : Cecil J. Sharp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935243205
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians written by Cecil J. Sharp and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Beuk O' Newcassel Sangs

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book A Beuk O' Newcassel Sangs written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folk Song in England

Author : A. L. Lloyd
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571245475
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Folk Song in England written by A. L. Lloyd and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A seminal work by one of the most influential figures of the English folk revival of the 1950s, Folk Song in England (1967) is an expansive account of the development of English traditional song, from the very oldest, ritual verse, through epic balladry, to the development of lyrical song in the industrial era. In a unique and ambitious approach, Lloyd marries the tradition of folk-song scholarship, largely derived from Cecil Sharp, with the radical historiography of E. P. Thompson, and in so doing produces a work of exceptional insight. In particular, his defining of 'industrial folk song' reveals traditional verse as an ebullient, living expression of the working people, perfectly adaptable to reflect their ways and conditions of life.

Folksongs of Britain and Ireland

Author : Peter Kennedy
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Folksongs of Britain and Ireland written by Peter Kennedy and published by Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 1984 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure trove for anyone interested in the folklore of the British Isles. Illustrated throughout, this lovely collection contains 360 folk songs from field recordings. Includes melody lines, lyrics, and chord symbols. Melody line format.

Electric Folk

Author : Britta Sweers
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198038984
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Electric Folk written by Britta Sweers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-13 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1960s and 1970s, a number of British musicians rediscovered traditional folk ballads, fusing the old melodies with rock, jazz, and blues styles to create a new genre dubbed "electric folk" or "British folk rock." This revival featured groups such as Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention, and Pentangle and individual performers like Shirley & Dolly Collins, and Richard Thompson. While making music in multiple styles, they had one thing in common: they were all based on traditional English song and dance material. These new arrangements of an old repertoire created a unique musical voice within the popular mainstream. After reasonable commercial success, peaking with Steeleye Span's Top 10 album All Around My Hat, Electric Folk disappeared from mainstream notice in the late 1970s, yet performers continue to create today. In Electric Folk: The Changing Face of English Traditional Music, Britta Sweers provides an illuminating history and fascinating analysis of the unique features of the electric folk scene, exploring its musical styles and cultural implications. Drawing on rare historical sources, contemporary music journalism, and first-hand interviews with several of electric folk's most prominent artists, Sweers argues that electric folk is both a result of the American folk revival of the early 1960s and a reaction against the dominance of American pop music abroad. Young British "folk-rockers," such as Richard Thompson and Maddy Prior, turned to traditional musical material as a means of asserting their British cultural identity. Yet, unlike many American and British folk revivalists, they were not as interested in the "purity" of folk ballads as in the music's potential for lively interaction with modern styles, instruments, and media. The book also delves into the impact of the British folk rock movement on mainstream pop, American rock music, and neighboring European countries. Ultimately, Sweers creates a richly detailed portrait of the electric folk scene--as cultural phenomenon, commercial entity, and performance style.

American Ballads and Folk Songs

Author : John A. Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048631992X
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book American Ballads and Folk Songs written by John A. Lomax and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600 1900

Author : Vic Gammon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138278332
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Desire, Drink and Death in English Folk and Vernacular Song, 1600 1900 written by Vic Gammon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-needed book provides valuable insights into themes and genres in popular song in the period c. 1600-1900. In particular it is a study of popular ballads as they appeared on printed sheets and as they were recorded by folk song collectors. Vic Gammon displays his interest in the way song articulates aspects of popular mentality and he relates the discourse of the songs to social history. Gammon discusses the themes and narratives that run through genres of song material and how these are repeated and reworked through time. He argues that in spite of important social and economic changes, the period 1600-1850 had a significant cultural consistency and characteristic forms of popular musical and cultural expression. These only changed radically under the impact of industrialization and urbanization in the nineteenth century. The book will appeal to those interested in folk song, historical popular music (including church music), ballad literature, popular literature, popular culture, social history, anthropology and sociology.

English Folk-songs

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book English Folk-songs written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Folk-song

Author : Cecil James Sharp
Publisher : London : Simpkin
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book English Folk-song written by Cecil James Sharp and published by London : Simpkin. This book was released on 1907 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland

Author : Ewan Maccoll
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317292278
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland written by Ewan Maccoll and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

English Folk Song

Author : Cecil James Sharp
Publisher : London : [Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Folk Song written by Cecil James Sharp and published by London : [Heinemann. This book was released on 1965 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: