Author: Vaughan Williams Memorial LibraryPublisher: [London] : Mansell
ISBN:
Category : Folk dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Catalogue of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
Author: Vaughan Williams Memorial LibraryPublisher: [London] : Mansell
ISBN:
Category : Folk dancing
Languages : en
Pages : 794
Book Description
Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Author: English Folk Dance and Song SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Catalogue of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
Author: The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Author: English Folk Dance and Song Society. Research and Resources Sub-CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Author: English Folk Songs
Author: Ralph Vaughan WilliamsPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141190922
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
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 RoudPublisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571309739
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
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.
Folk Dance Articles in the Journal of the English Folk Dance Society, Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society and Folk Music Journal
Author: Who Killed Cock Robin?
Author: Stephen SedleyPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789145023
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
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.
Journal of the English Folk Dance & Song Society
Author: English Folk Dance and Song SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dance
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Includes music.