Twelve Songs for Children from the Appalachian Mountains: Bye, bye, baby; Swing a lady; Sourwood Mountain; The frog in the well; Putman's Hill; Sing, said the mother
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 24
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The Art of the Mountain Banjo
Author: Art Rosebaum
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Published: 2015-10-08
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1619115395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA complete survey of traditional banjo styles complete with tunings, playing tips, and the author's deft drawings. Progresses from easy tunes for the beginner to more difficult pieces. The styles include up-picking or Pete Seeger's basic strum; two-finger picking; three-finger picking; and what had variously been called frailing, clawhammer, knocking, rapping, overhand, fram-style, flayin' hand, andother Appalachian names, here called down-picking. Audio download available online
English Folk Songs
Author: 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).
Imogen Holst
Author: Christopher Grogan
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 1843835991
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExtensively revised with new material, the book also includes a study of Imogen Hoist's music and a chronological list of her works, revealing her as a composer of tremendous talent, whose music deserves to be much more familiar.
American Ballads and Folk Songs
Author: John A. Lomax
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-07-24
Total Pages: 719
ISBN-13: 048631992X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusic 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.
English Dancing Master, 1651
Author: John Playford
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Published: 1957
Total Pages: 128
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Music of Gustav Holst ; And, Holst's Music Reconsidered
Author: Imogen Holst
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA leading figure of English music in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Gustav Holst is best known for his orchestral tour de force, The Planets. He composed music of startling originality in many forms, drawing inspiration from sources as varied as English folk-song, oriental melody, the Apocrypha, and Sanskrit literatures, as well as from such writers as Keats, Hardy, and Whitman. In this study of her father's music, Imogen Holst discusses Holst's pieces of the early 1890s, the musical consequences of his holiday in Algeria in 1908, problems of performance in The Planets, and editing Holt's music. The volume also includes a list of important dates in Holst's life, a list of his published work, and a bibliography.
Westward into Kentucky
Author: Chester Raymond Young
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2014-07-11
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0813149266
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his youth Daniel Trabue (1760–1840) served as a Virginia soldier in the Revolutionary War. After three years of service on the Kentucky frontier, he returned home to participate as a sutler in the Yorktown campaign. Following the war he settled in the Piedmont, but by 1785 his yearning to return westward led him to take his family to Kentucky, where they settled for a few years in the upper Green River country. He recorded his narrative in 1827, in the town of Columbia, of which he was a founder. A keen observer of people and events, Trabue captures experiences of everyday life in both the Piedmont and frontier Kentucky. His notes on the settling of Kentucky touch on many important moments in the opening of the Bluegrass region.
Folk Songs from Somerset
Author: Cecil James Sharp
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Published: 2015-02-15
Total Pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781296037437
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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. 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.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. 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.
An ABC of Music
Author: Imogen Holst
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 212
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKImogen Holst's brilliantly lucid book introduces the reader to the language of musical terms, highlighting and analysing the historical development of music's texture, harmony, and form. The perfect complement to The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, it can be read by anyone - absolutebeginners and those who wish to consolidate and extend what they already know. But it not only informs: ultimately, for performers and listeners alike it encourages livelier participation.
