The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964324
Total Pages : 608 pages
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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 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

The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by : A. L. Llloyd

Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs written by A. L. Llloyd and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Folk Song in England

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

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Book Synopsis Folk Song in England by : Steve Roud

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.

The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs

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Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)

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Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs by : Keith Campbell MacMillan

Download or read book The Penguin Book of Canadian Folk Songs written by Keith Campbell MacMillan and published by Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada. This book was released on 1973 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 82 folkesange.

English Folk Songs

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

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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).

The Penguin Book of English Song

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141982551
Total Pages : 976 pages
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Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of English Song by : Richard Stokes

Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Song written by Richard Stokes and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-04-07 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

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Total Pages : 128 pages
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Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by : Ralph Vaughan Williams

Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs written by Ralph Vaughan Williams and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Ballads and Folk Songs

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

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Book Synopsis American Ballads and Folk Songs by : John A. Lomax

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.

The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000401596
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance by : Peter Harrop

Download or read book The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance written by Peter Harrop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-12 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

One Hundred English Folksongs

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

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Book Synopsis One Hundred English Folksongs by : Cecil James Sharp

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

Who Killed Cock Robin?

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Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1789145023
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (891 download)

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Book Synopsis Who Killed Cock Robin? by : Stephen Sedley

Download or read book Who Killed Cock Robin? written by Stephen Sedley and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2021-09-16 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

New Songs from a Jade Terrace

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000583074
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Book Synopsis New Songs from a Jade Terrace by : Anne Birrell

Download or read book New Songs from a Jade Terrace written by Anne Birrell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1982, was the first translation of the Chinese classic Yü-t-‘ai hsin-yung – the unique anthology of love poems, compiled in AD 545. This traces the development of love poetry from the second century BC to its full flowering in the fifth and sixth centuries AD. Dr Birrell’s incisive introductory essay provides a concise survey of the historical and literary setting to the poems and explains the conventions governing courtly love poetry. In particular, the reader’s attention is drawn to the many and varied artistic uses of imagery in the poems. Major poets are noted for their artistic achievement and for their contribution to the development of the genre. Dr Birrell also supplies a valuable section of notes on the poems to guide the reader through unfamiliar historical events, legends, anecdotes and famous places and people, and there is a similar section of notes on the poets offering biographical details.

English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians

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ISBN 13 : 9781935243205
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (432 download)

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Book Synopsis English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians by : Cecil J. Sharp

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.

The English Year

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Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141919272
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The English Year written by Steve Roud and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2008-01-31 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (758 download)

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Book Synopsis The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs by : A. L. Llloyd

Download or read book The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs written by A. L. Llloyd and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Penguin Classics New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0141194626
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Classics New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs written by Steve Roud and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians

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Total Pages : 427 pages
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Book Synopsis English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians by : Cecil James Sharp

Download or read book English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians written by Cecil James Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: