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Book Synopsis Folk Songs of America and the British Isles by : Manley Mallard
Download or read book Folk Songs of America and the British Isles written by Manley Mallard and published by Mel Bay Publications. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of classic folksongs has been beautifully arranged for guitar ensembles of beginning to intermediate ability or for two players with more advanced skill. All parts stay in the first position except for guitar 1. the parts have been written in two staves; guitars 1 & 3 in staff one and guitars 2 & 4 in staff 2. Pull out parts are provided to avoid any page turns. A separate piano score, written just below the guitar score, has been included to help guitar ensemble directors who have more experience with piano than guitar. These versatile arrangements present a traditional harmonization of the theme followed by a more adventuresome variation.
Book Synopsis Folksongs of Britain and Ireland by : Peter Kennedy
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.
Book Synopsis Roots of the Revival by : Ronald D Cohen
Download or read book Roots of the Revival written by Ronald D Cohen and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-09-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Roots of the Revival: American and British Folk Music in the 1950s, Ronald D. Cohen and Rachel Clare Donaldson present a transatlantic history of folk's midcentury resurgence that juxtaposes the related but distinct revivals that took place in the United States and Great Britain. After setting the stage with the work of music collectors in the nineteenth century, the authors explore the so-called recovery of folk music practices and performers by Alan Lomax and others, including journeys to and within the British Isles that allowed artists and folk music advocates to absorb native forms and facilitate the music's transatlantic exchange. Cohen and Donaldson place the musical and cultural connections of the twin revivals within the decade's social and musical milieu and grapple with the performers' leftist political agendas and artistic challenges, including the fierce debates over "authenticity" in practice and repertoire that erupted when artists like Harry Belafonte and the Kingston Trio carried folk into the popular music mainstream. From work songs to skiffle, from the Weavers in Greenwich Village to Burl Ives on the BBC, Roots of the Revival offers a frank and wide-ranging consideration of a time, a movement, and a transformative period in American and British pop culture.
Book Synopsis Songs of the British Isles for Solo Singers (Medium Low Voice) by : Jay Althouse
Download or read book Songs of the British Isles for Solo Singers (Medium Low Voice) written by Jay Althouse and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The songs of the British Isles---England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales---are among the most expressive and singable in Western music. The 11 songs selected for this collection are ideal for both the beginning soloist and the more skilled singer. Included are ballads, love songs, folk songs, and even two Christmas carols. Titles: *Annie Laurie *The Ash Grove *The Blaydon Races *Danny Boy *Flow Gently, Sweet Afton *Greensleeves *God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen *Scarborough Fair *Skye Boat Song *The Snow Lay on the Ground *The Water Is Wide (O Waly, Waly)
Book Synopsis Songs of the British Isles for Solo Singers (Medium High Voice) by : Jay Althouse
Download or read book Songs of the British Isles for Solo Singers (Medium High Voice) written by Jay Althouse and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2012-10-31 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The songs of the British Isles---England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales---are among the most expressive and singable in Western music. The 11 songs selected for this collection are ideal for both the beginning soloist and the more skilled singer. Included are ballads, love songs, folk songs, and even two Christmas carols. Titles: *Annie Laurie *The Ash Grove *The Blaydon Races *Danny Boy *Flow Gently, Sweet Afton *Greensleeves *God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen *Scarborough Fair *Skye Boat Song *The Snow Lay on the Ground *The Water Is Wide (O Waly, Waly)
Book Synopsis Romancing the Folk by : Benjamin Filene
Download or read book Romancing the Folk written by Benjamin Filene and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied fo
Book Synopsis Folk-Songs of the Southern United States by : Josiah H. Combs
Download or read book Folk-Songs of the Southern United States written by Josiah H. Combs and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The spirit of balladry is not dead, but slowly dying. The instincts, sentiments, and feelings which it represents are indeed as immortal as romance itself, but their mode of expression, the folksong, is fighting with its back to the wall, with the odds against it in our introspective age.” This statement by Josiah Henry Combs is that of a man who grew up among the members of a singing family in one of the last strongholds of the ballad-making tradition, the Southern Highlands of the United States. Combs was born in 1886 in Hazard, Kentucky, the heart of the mountain feud area—a significant background for one who was to take a prominent part in the “ballad war” of the 1900s. Combs’s intimate knowledge of folk culture and his grasp of the scholarly literature enabled him to approach the ballad controversy with common sense as well as with some of the heat generated by the dispute. Although in the early twentieth century there was probably no more controversy about the nature of the folk and folksong than there is today, it was a different kind of controversy. Many theories of the origins of folksong current at that time, such as the alleged relationship of traditional ballads to “primitive poetry,” did not take into account contemporary evidence. Combs said, “Here as elsewhere, I go directly to the folk for much of my information, allowing the songs, language, names, customs . . . of the people to help settle the problem of ancestry. . . . In brief, a conscientious study of the lore of the folk cannot be separated from the folk itself.” Folk-Songs du Midi des États-Unis, published as a doctoral dissertation at the University of Paris in 1925, was an introduction to the study of the folksong of the Southern Appalachians, together with a selection of folksong texts collected by Combs. Folk-Songs of the Southern United States, the first publication of that work in English, is based on the French text and Combs’s English draft. To this edition is appended an annotated listing of all songs in the Josiah H. Combs Collection in the Western Kentucky Folklore Archive at the University of California, Los Angeles. The appendix also includes the texts of selected songs. The aim of this edition is to make the contents of the original volume more readily available in English and to provide an index to the Combs Collection that may be drawn upon by students of folksong. The book also offers texts of over fifty songs of British and American origin as sung in the Southern Highlands.
Book Synopsis English Folk Songs by : Ralph Vaughan Williams
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).
Book Synopsis Folk Songs for Two (Any Voice Combination) by : Jay Althouse
Download or read book Folk Songs for Two (Any Voice Combination) written by Jay Althouse and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 2005-05-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appropriate for any combination of voices, male or female. Titles: * All Through the Night * Amazing Grace * Camptown Races * Cindy * He's Gone Away * Poor Wayfaring Stranger * Scarborough Fair * Shenandoah * Siyahamba * Skye Boat Song * Homeward Bound
Book Synopsis American Negro Folk-songs by : Newman Ivey White
Download or read book American Negro Folk-songs written by Newman Ivey White and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While his father works in the city over the winter, a young boy thinks of some good times they've shared and looks forward to his return to their South African home in the spring.
Book Synopsis Folksongs of Britain and Ireland by : Peter Kennedy
Download or read book Folksongs of Britain and Ireland written by Peter Kennedy and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1975 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Folk Music in America by : Phillips Barry
Download or read book Folk Music in America written by Phillips Barry and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians by : Oscar Thompson
Download or read book The International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians written by Oscar Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 2506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Erotic Muse written by Ed Cray and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever wanted to know the "correct" words to "Roll Me Over," or wondered where the melody of "Sweet Betsy from Pike" came from, this book can answer your questions. Extensively revised and including forty more songs than its predecessor, this new edition of The Erotic Muse is a unique scholarly collection of bawdy or forbidden American folksongs. Ed Cray presents the full texts of some 125 songs, with melodies for most of them and detailed annotations for all. His lively commentary places the songs in historical, social, and, where appropriate, psychological context.
Book Synopsis Folk Music: The Basics by : Ronald Cohen
Download or read book Folk Music: The Basics written by Ronald Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folk Music: The Basics gives a brief introduction to British and American folk music. Drawing upon the most recent and relevant scholarship, it will focus on comparing and contrasting the historical nature of the three aspects of understanding folk music: traditional, local performers; professional collectors; and the advent of professional performers in the twentieth century during the so-called "folk revival." The two sides of the folk tradition will be examined--both as popular and commercial expressions. Folk Music: The Basics serves as an excellent introduction to the players, the music, and the styles that make folk music an enduring and well-loved musical style. Throughout, sidebars offer studies of key folk performers, record labels, and related issues to place the general discussion in context.
Book Synopsis Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music by : Ross Hair
Download or read book Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music written by Ross Hair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the Anthology featured an eclectic and idiosyncratic mixture of blues and hillbilly songs, ballads old and new, dance music, gospel, and numerous other performances less easy to classify. Where previous collections of folk music, both printed and recorded, had privileged field recordings and oral transmission, Smith purposefully shaped his collection from previously released commercial records, pointedly blurring established racial boundaries in his selection and organisation of performances. Indeed, more than just a ground-breaking collection of old recordings, the Anthology was itself a kind of performance on the part of its creator. Over the six decades of its existence, however, it has continued to exert considerable influence on generations of musicians, artists, and writers. It has been credited with inspiring the North American folk revival—"The Anthology was our bible", asserted Dave Van Ronk in 1991, "We all knew every word of every song on it"—and with profoundly influencing Bob Dylan. After its 1997 release on CD by Smithsonian Folkways, it came to be closely associated with the so-called Americana and Alt-Country movements of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Following its sixtieth birthday, and now available as a digital download and rereleased on vinyl, it is once again a prominent icon in numerous musical currents and popular culture more generally. This is the first book devoted to such a vital piece of the large and complex story of American music and its enduring value in American life. Reflecting the intrinsic interdisciplinarity of Smith’s original project, this collection contains a variety of new perspectives on all aspects of the Anthology.
Book Synopsis Transatlantic Roots Music by : Jill Terry
Download or read book Transatlantic Roots Music written by Jill Terry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a collection of essays on the debates about origins, authenticity, and identity in folk and blues music. The essays had their origins in an international conference on the Transatlantic routes of American roots music, out of which emerged common themes and questions of origins and authenticity in folk music, black and white, American and British. The central theme is musical influences, but issues of identity—national, local, and racial—are also recurring subjects. The extent to which these identities were invented, imagined, or constructed by the performers, or by those who recorded their work for posterity, is also a prominent concern and questions of racial identity are particularly central. The book features a new essay on the blues by Paul Oliver alongside an essay on Oliver's seminal blues scholarship. There are also several essays on British blues and the links between performers and styles in the United States and Britain and new essays on critical figures such as Alan Lomax and Woody Guthrie. This volume uniquely offers perspectives from both sides of the Atlantic on the connections and interplay of influences in roots music and the debates about these subjects drawing on the work of eminent established scholars and emerging young academics who are already making a contribution to the field. Throughout, the contributors offer the most recent scholarship available on key issues.
