The Vaughan Williams Memorial Library Catalogue of the English Folk Dance and Song Society
Author: Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Publisher: [London] : Mansell
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 794
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Author: Vaughan Williams Memorial Library
Publisher: [London] : Mansell
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 794
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: English Folk Dance and Song Society
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Published: 1992
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2009-04-02
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0141190922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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).
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Published: 1973
Total Pages: 769
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: English Folk Dance and Song Society. Research and Resources Sub-Committee
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 78
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steve Roud
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2017-08-15
Total Pages: 612
ISBN-13: 0571309739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 6
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cecil James Sharp
Publisher: London : Simpkin
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 172
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cecil J. Sharp
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2022-10-27
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781016065443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Peter Harrop
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-07-12
Total Pages: 814
ISBN-13: 1000401596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.