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File:H&R Hammond cropped.jpg

2009-01-17T02:27:13Z

MalcolmDouglas: Photograph by Crowe & Rogers, Stirling, of Henry Hammond (right) and Robert Hammond (left) reproduced from 'Folk Music Journal' I (4) 1968, where it was printed with the permission of Miss Cecily Hammond. Cropped version.

Photograph by Crowe & Rogers, Stirling, of Henry Hammond (right) and Robert Hammond (left) reproduced from 'Folk Music Journal' I (4) 1968, where it was printed with the permission of Miss Cecily Hammond. Cropped version.

George Gardiner

2009-01-16T23:27:53Z

MalcolmDouglas: Journal reference corrected, various small text emendations.

[[image:George_gardiner.jpg|left|Dr George Gardiner: photograph reproduced from Folk Music Journal I (3) 1967]]'''George Barnet Gardiner''', Scottish folk-song collector, c.1852-1910.

With a collection of over 1,400 songs, Gardiner should be ranked alongside the major collectors, but his collection fell into obscurity after his death in 1910. He was 'rediscovered' by James Reeves and Frank Purslow in the 1950s. [[Frank Purslow]] did a gargantuan job collating the collection and publishing about 150 of his songs in the excellent '[[Marrow Bones|Marrowbones]]' series of songbooks 1965-1973. The books, however, were a mixture of Gardiner's and [[H.E.D. Hammond|Henry Hammond]]'s material, and Gardiner still did not quite receive the prominence he deserved. The present centenary of his collecting is doing much to further restore his reputation.

George Gardiner was born in Kincardine-on-Forth, Perthshire, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh, he then taught at the Edinburgh Academy from 1884 until 1896. [[H.E.D. Hammond]] joined the staff of the Academy in 1890, and the two men became friends. Gardiner retired from the Academy to translate and publish textbooks. He travelled widely on the continent during this period, and in 1903 he made an extensive study of the folk song of Europe. In 1904 he began collecting English folk songs with Henry Hammond in Hammond's native Somerset. Hammond then concentrated on [[Dorset]] and Gardiner concentrated on the county of [[Hampshire]], continuing until his death in January 1910.

COLLECTING IN HAMPSHIRE.

Hampshire has the rural villages and market towns found in all counties. It also has the industrial and maritime towns of Portsmouth and Southampton, and a strong military and naval presence. Gardiner was able to collect in this county from singers who had a wide range of occupation.

WHERE HE COLLECTED.

George Gardiner collected his first Hampshire song in the Twyford area near Winchester in June 1905. He called this area his first 'happy hunting ground'. He went on to explore the Itchen valley, noting songs in Ropley, Alresford, Bishop's Sutton and Itchen Abbas. He was then caught out by the classic townsman's mistake of forgetting the country cycles of labour. First haymaking, and then the various harvests of summer took the whole attention of all of the country people. Everyone was totally exhausted with this labour, and no one had energy to sing. ([[Cecil Sharp]] apparently persuaded some country singers to sing in this season, but Gardiner was a very kindly man, and would not do this). So he collated his material and planned better for next year.

1906. Gardiner started much earlier in April. He continued in the Itchen valley and Winchester, but he alternated this with collecting in Lyndhurst and Southampton. I think that he made much use of the railway. There is a note to remind himself which railway company to take for a particular village in his archive. He had a modern outlook and he used whatever transport was available. (Hampshire is well-endowed with railways, and this was even more so in Gardiner's day. There was even a Meon Valley line running down from Alton).
Gardiner had now found another source of songs: the workhouses. This was very useful to him in the summer when country people were tied up with the harvests. It was mostly older people who had the songs, and Gardiner could meet lots of old people in the workhouses.
In 1906, he visited the workhouses of Lyndhurst, Romsey, Andover, Southampton, Fareham, Winchester and Basingstoke.

1907. Gardiner collected again from Marchwood in the New Forest, and then again from the northeast, including Preston Candover and Axford. ([[Bob Copper]] of the Copper family followed in his footsteps about 50 years later, and he tape-recorded a few people who still sang songs in the area around Axford and Cheriton).
From July onwards, Gardiner visited the workhouses again, including Portsmouth where he collected over 100 songs. He wrote about this in some detail in the Hampshire Chronicle 4/1/1908.

In 1908 he visited a number of workhouses from August, including Petersfield and Catherington, and he also visited villages in the northeast.

In 1909 he visited villages in the New Forest and the northeast. He went just over the border to Farnham and Westbourne workhouses. But he also seemed to be spreading his wings further to Wiltshire workhouses, getting right over to Trowbridge and Westbury.
He does not seem to have realised that this would be his last year alive. If he had, I think he would have finished collating the songs he had collected already, and attempted to get them published before his death. But we do not know for certain: he may have thought it more important to save more songs for posterity, and to bequeath them to the Folk Song Society.

If Gardiner's singers are plotted on a map, it becomes clear that many singers were found in some areas and few in others. Gardiner does not seem to have collected in the southern New Forest or the Isle of Wight. I think this is because another collector, Alice Gillington, was collecting there.
It can be seen that there was a large area of singing communities in a rough triangle from Winchester to Alton to Basingstoke. There was also another strong cluster in the northern New Forest. But there were large areas where he found no singers. The area to the north and east of Winchester looked promising, but he says he did not find a single song there. There are even a number of workhouses where he seems to have found no singers (e.g. Romsey and Droxford). So the fading singing population had already died out in some places. This shows that Gardiner was only just in time.

Gardiner seems to have collected at least until September 1909. He appears to have been suffering from kidney disease in his final year, and probably for longer. He died in his native Scotland, in Melrose Hydro, on 10th January 1910.

HOW HE COLLECTED.

Although he sang himself, and had great skill in analysing music, Gardiner did not trust himself to do the music notation. So he engaged skilled musicians to note the tunes. He found the singers, chose the songs, noted the words, and then he paid the musicians to do his notation. He used Henry Balfour Gardiner and then Charles Gamblin in the north, and John Guyer in the south. All three seem to have had an interest in traditional folksong.

Henry Balfour Gardiner was a minor composer who knew [[Lucy Broadwood]] and [[Percy Grainger]] well. There is a song which bears his name in the Lucy Broadwood collection dated 1899. He keenly told Percy Grainger that he would buy a phonograph to record singers in 1907. He seems to have become disillusioned, however, when Cecil Sharp refused to publish his folksong arrangements. George Gardiner attempted to smooth things over by commissioning him to work on some folk song arrangements, but Balfour Gardiner seems to have ceased folk song notation after this.

Charles Gamblin was a multi-instrumentalist music schoolteacher who ran a very popular community orchestra. He was also the organist at St Cross, the ancient church that served the medieval almshouse complex just south of Winchester. He was highly respected in Winchester: large numbers turned out for his funeral in the 1920s. Five songs in the collection have his name as the source, so he seems to have learned folk songs long before he met George Gardiner. He was an elderly man, and may have been losing some of his powers by 1909. But he seems to have worked well at notating Gardiner's songs in previous years.

John Fisher Guyer was also a music teacher, but he seems to have maintained himself through private tuition. His instrument was the violin and he lived in Southampton. He was in Edinburgh in the 1890s and so he may well have met Gardiner before he came to Hampshire. There are two postcards from Guyer, showing that he was studying ballads in the British Museum for Gardiner. He seems to have worked closely with Gardiner in his final years, checking the manuscripts for publication. He revisited some of Gamblin's singers to give a second opinion. He died of pneumonia in 1915.

Gardiner did not rely on middle class informants like some other collectors. He had to go and look for the singers himself. He would drive to a locality in a horse carriage, and he would ask the driver if he knew of any singers. He would ask the Blacksmith or Innkeeper when he arrived. He would walk in the localities and presumably ask any men that he met if they knew of singers. (It was not polite to address unknown women in those days). He seemed, like Sharp and other collectors, to have a natural rapport with the singers. Perhaps his Scottish accent served to remove the class barrier that could thwart some collectors. He was certainly not proud. He remarks that he spent two pleasurable afternoons noting songs from a farmer as he milked his cows, and later a similar experience in a hut with a shepherd and his dog. He seems to have understood the language of his singers very well. But in his early note books there are some interesting examples of the local accent: 'Ranal' for Randall, 'Charnsford' for Chandler's Ford and 'Wharton' for Waltham!
Gardiner certainly seemed to get on well with his singers. He loved to sing the songs himself, and we can imagine him swapping songs with the locals. He would have communicated his respect for the songs and for the singers as well. 'Besides a singer is always a jolly good fellow!' he wrote in one of his articles. He got on so well with one couple (probably Daniel and Sarah Goodyear of Axford) that the wife arranged for all the local singers to gather at her house, so that the material could be taken down more easily. Here Gardiner was able to collect from women as well as the men that he could meet in pubs and more public places.

GARDINER'S PUBLICATIONS.

*1894 A Latin Translation Primer.
*1897 A First Latin Course.
*1898 Key to a First Latin Course.
*1900 A Second Latin Reader.
*1902 'The Home of the German Band'. Blackwood's Magazine, Vol 172: Oct 1902.
*1904 A Latin Anthology for Beginners.
*1909 Folk Songs from Hampshire (16 songs). Series editor: Cecil Sharp. Arrangements: G Holst.
*1909 Folk Song Society Journal (50 songs).

In addition, Gardiner wrote a number of articles for the Hampshire Chronicle which were repeated in a number of other publications: 1/9/1906, 13/10/1906, 4/1/1908, 20/2/1909.

The Hampshire Chronicle articles, together with his prefaces, give a good insight into Gardiner's character and approach to collecting. 'The Home of the German Band' gives an insight into his character and love of music.

[[Frank Purslow]], who worked on the Gardiner archive from the 1950s to the 1970s is the source for some of the above material. His article 'The George Gardiner Folk Song Collection' in [[Folk Music Journal]] volume I number 3 1967 129-157, together with his '[[Marrow Bones|Marrowbones]]' series of songbooks did much to publicise Gardiner's work.

See [http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/textpage.cgi?file=aboutGardiner&access=off VWML Online]

[[Category:Collector]]

George Gardiner

2009-01-16T22:56:45Z

MalcolmDouglas: Photograph of Dr George Gardiner added. Reproduced from Folk Music Journal I (3) 1967.

[[image:George_gardiner.jpg|left|Dr George Gardiner: photograph reproduced from Folk Music Journal I (3) 1967]]'''George Barnet Gardiner''', Scottish folk-song collector, c.1852-1910.

With a collection of over 1,400 songs, Gardiner should be ranked alongside the major collectors, but his collection fell into obscurity after his death in 1910. He was 'rediscovered' by James Reeves and Frank Purslow in the 1950s. [[Frank Purslow]] did a gargantuan job collating the collection and publishing about 150 of his songs in the excellent '[[Marrow Bones|Marrowbones]]' series of songbooks 1965-1973. The books, however, were a mixture of Gardiner's and [[H.E.D. Hammond|Henry Hammond]]'s material, and Gardiner still did not quite receive the prominence he deserved. The present centenary of his collecting is doing much to further restore his reputation.

George Gardiner was born in Kincardine-on-Forth, Perthshire, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh, he then taught at the Edinburgh Academy from 1884 until 1896. [[H.E.D. Hammond]] joined the staff of the Academy in 1890, and the two men became friends. Gardiner retired from the Academy to translate and publish textbooks. He travelled widely on the continent during this period, and in 1903 he made an extensive study of the folk song of Europe. In 1904 he began collecting English folk songs with Henry Hammond in Hammond's native Somerset. Hammond then concentrated on [[Dorset]] and Gardiner concentrated on the county of [[Hampshire]], continuing until his death in January 1910.

COLLECTING IN HAMPSHIRE.

Hampshire has the rural villages and market towns found in all counties. It also has the industrial and maritime towns of Portsmouth and Southampton, and a strong military and naval presence. Gardiner was able to collect in this county from singers who had a wide range of occupation.

WHERE HE COLLECTED.

George Gardiner collected his first Hampshire song in the Twyford area near Winchester in June 1905. He called this area his first 'happy hunting ground'. He went on to explore the Itchen valley, noting songs in Ropley, Alresford, Bishop's Sutton and Itchen Abbas. He was then caught out by the classic townsman's mistake of forgetting the country cycles of labour. First haymaking, and then the various harvests of summer took the whole attention of all of the country people. Everyone was totally exhausted with this labour, and no one had energy to sing. ([[Cecil Sharp]] apparently persuaded some country singers to sing in this season, but Gardiner was a very kindly man, and would not do this). So he collated his material and planned better for next year.

1906. Gardiner started much earlier in April. He continued in the Itchen valley and Winchester, but he alternated this with collecting in Lyndhurst and Southampton. I think that he made much use of the railway. There is a note to remind himself which railway company to take for a particular village in his archive. He had a modern outlook and he used whatever transport was available. (Hampshire is well-endowed with railways, and this was even more so in Gardiner's day. There was even a Meon Valley line running down from Alton).
Gardiner had now found another source of songs: the workhouses. This was very useful to him in the summer when country people were tied up with the harvests. It was mostly older people who had the songs, and Gardiner could meet lots of old people in the workhouses.
In 1906, he visited the workhouses of Lyndhurst, Romsey, Andover, Southampton, Fareham, Winchester and Basingstoke.

1907. Gardiner collected again from Marchwood in the New Forest, and then again from the northeast, including Preston Candover and Axford. ([[Bob Copper]] of the Copper family followed in his footsteps about 50 years later, and he tape-recorded a few people who still sang songs in the area around Axford and Cheriton).
From July onwards, Gardiner visited the workhouses again, including Portsmouth where he collected over 100 songs. He wrote about this in some detail in the Hampshire Chronicle 4/1/1908.

In 1908 he visited a number of workhouses from August, including Petersfield and Catherington, and he also visited villages in the northeast.

In 1909 he visited villages in the New Forest and the northeast. He went just over the border to Farnham and Westbourne workhouses. But he also seemed to be spreading his wings further to Wiltshire workhouses, getting right over to Trowbridge and Westbury.
He does not seem to have realised that this would be his last year alive. If he had, I think he would have finished collating the songs he had collected already, and attempted to get them published before his death. But we do not know for certain: he may have thought it more important to save more songs for posterity, and to bequeath them to the Folk Song Society.

If Gardiner's singers are plotted on a map, it becomes clear that many singers were found in some areas and few in others. Gardiner does not seem to have collected in the southern New Forest or the Isle of Wight. I think this is because another collector, Alice Gillington, was collecting there.
It can be seen that there was a large area of singing communities in a rough triangle from Winchester to Alton to Basingstoke. There was also another strong cluster in the northern New Forest. But there were large areas where he found no singers. The area to the north and east of Winchester looked promising, but he says he did not find a single song there. There are even a number of workhouses where he seems to have found no singers (e.g. Romsey and Droxford). So the fading singing population had already died out in some places. This shows that Gardiner was only just in time.

Gardiner seems to have collected at least until September 1909. He appears to have been suffering from kidney disease in his final year, and probably for longer. He sadly died in his native Scotland, in Melrose Hydro, on 10th January 1910.

HOW HE COLLECTED.

Although he sang himself, and had great skill in analysing music, Gardiner did not trust himself to do the music notation. So he engaged skilled musicians to note the tunes. He found the singers, chose the songs, noted the words, and then he paid the musicians to do his notation. He used Henry Balfour Gardiner and then Charles Gamblin in the north, and John Guyer in the south. All three seem to have had an interest in traditional folksong.

Henry Balfour Gardiner was a minor composer who knew [[Lucy Broadwood]] and [[Percy Grainger]] well. There is a song which bears his name in the Lucy Broadwood collection dated 1899. He keenly told Percy Grainger that he would buy a phonograph to record singers in 1907. He seems to have become disillusioned, however, when Cecil Sharp refused to publish his his folksong arrangements. George Gardiner attempted to smooth things over by commissioning him to work on some folk song arrangements, but Balfour Gardiner seems to have ceased folk song notation after this.

Charles Gamblin was a multi-instrumentalist music schoolteacher who ran a very popular community orchestra. He was also the organist at St Cross, the ancient church that served the medieval almshouse complex just south of Winchester. He was highly respected in Winchester: large numbers turned out for his funeral in the 1920s. Five songs in the collection have his name as the source, so he seems to have learned folk songs long before he met George Gardiner. He was an elderly man, and may have been losing some of his powers by 1909. But he seems to have worked well at notating Gardiner's songs in previous years.

John Fisher Guyer was also a music teacher, but he seems to have maintained himself through private tuition. His instrument was the violin and he lived in Southampton. He was in Edinburgh in the 1890s and so he may well have met Gardiner before he came to Hampshire. There are two postcards from Guyer, showing that he was studying ballads in the British Museum for Gardiner. He seems to have worked closely with Gardiner in his final years, checking the manuscripts for publication. He revisited some of Gamblin's singers to give a second opinion. He sadly died of pneumonia in 1915.

Gardiner did not rely on middle class informants like some other collectors. He had to go and look for the singers himself. He would drive to a locality in a horse carriage, and he would ask the driver if he knew of any singers. He would ask the Blacksmith or Innkeeper when he arrived. He would walk in the localities and presumably ask any men that he met if they knew of singers. (It was not polite to address unknown women in those days). He seemed, like Sharp and other collectors, to have a natural rapport with the singers. Perhaps his Scottish accent served to remove the class barrier that could thwart some collectors. He was certainly not proud. He remarks that he spent two pleasurable afternoons noting songs from a farmer as he milked his cows, and later a similar experience in a hut with a shepherd and his dog. He seems to have understood the language of his singers very well. But in his early note books there are some interesting examples of the local accent: 'Ranal' for Randall, 'Charnsford' for Chandler's Ford and 'Wharton' for Waltham!
Gardiner certainly seemed to get on well with his singers. He loved to sing the songs himself, and we can imagine him swapping songs with the locals. He would have communicated his respect for the songs and for the singers as well. 'Besides a singer is always a jolly good fellow!' he wrote in one of his articles. He got on so well with one couple that the wife arranged for all the local singers to gather at her house, so that the material could be taken down easier. Here Gardiner was able to collect from women as well as the men that he could meet in pubs and more public places.

GARDINER'S PUBLICATIONS.

*1894 A Latin Translation Primer.
*1897 A First Latin Course.
*1898 Key to a First Latin Course.
*1900 A Second Latin Reader.
*1902 'The Home of the German Band'. Blackwood's Magazine, Vol 172: Oct 1902.
*1904 A Latin Anthology for Beginners.
*1909 Folk Songs from Hampshire (16 songs). Series editor: Cecil Sharp. Arrangements: G Holst.
*1909 Folk Song Society Journal (50 songs).

In addition, Gardiner wrote a number of articles for the Hampshire Chronicle which were repeated in a number of other publications: 1/9/1906, 13/10/1906, 4/1/1908, 20/2/1909.

The Hampshire Chronicle articles, together with his prefaces, give a good insight into Gardiner's character and approach to collecting. The Article on 'The Home of the German Band', gives an insight into his character and love of music.

[[Frank Purslow]], who worked on the Gardiner archive from the 1950s to the 1970s is the source for some of this material. His article on Gardiner in the Folk Song Journal of 1967, together with his '[[Marrow Bones|Marrowbones]]' series of songbooks did much to publicise Gardiner's work.
see [http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/textpage.cgi?file=aboutGardiner&access=off VWML Online]

[[Category:Collector]]

File:George gardiner.jpg

2009-01-16T22:40:57Z

MalcolmDouglas: Photograph of Dr George Gardiner reproduced from 'Folk Music Journal' I (3) 1967, where it was printed with the permission of Mr B A Stenhouse, Registrar of the Edinburgh Academy.

Photograph of Dr George Gardiner reproduced from 'Folk Music Journal' I (3) 1967, where it was printed with the permission of Mr B A Stenhouse, Registrar of the Edinburgh Academy.

Henry Burstow's Reminiscences

2008-06-29T16:37:18Z

MalcolmDouglas: link added to online transcription of Buratow's Reminiscences

[[Henry Burstow|Henry Burstow's]] Reminiscences were first published in 1911. A full transcription can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow.html

This Reminiscence on 19th Century Sussex May Day Customs was reprinted in the [[EDS Vol 38 No2|1976 Summer edition of English Dance and Song]]

May Day, or Garland Day was a very jolly time for us youngsters, not only because it was a holiday, but also because we used to pick up what seemed to us quite a bit of money. Early in the morning we would get up our best [[nosegays]] and [[garlands]], some mounted on poles and visit the private residents and tradespeople. We represented a well recognised institution, and invariably got well received and patronised.People all seemed pleased to see us, and we were all pleased to see one another, especially if the day was fine, as it now seems to me that it always was.

At Manor House special arrangements were made for our reception, and quite a delightful old time ceremony took place. Boys and girls gaily decked out for the occasion, a few at a time used to approach the front door, where a temporary railed platform was erected, and there old Mrs Tredcroft, a nice looking, good hearted old lady used to stand and deal out to each and every one of us kind words and a few pence, everyone curtseying upon approach and upon leaving.

Old Mrs Smallwood who lived in a quaint old cottage in the Bishopric, always used to go round on May Day with an immense [[garland]] drawn on a trolley by two or three boys. On the top of her garland she used to mount her little model cow, indicative of her trade - milk selling. Gaily dressed up herself in bows and ribbons, she used to take her [[garland]] around the town, call upon all the principal residents and tradespeople, to whom she was well known, and get well patronised. This old lady lived nearly 100 years, and until she was nearly 96 regularly carried milk round to her customers in buckets suspended from a yoke on her shoulders.

On this day, too, we had Jacks-in the Green. The chimney sweeps used to dress up in fancy costumes and in evergreens and flowers, and accompanied by a fiddler or two, parade and dance all round the town and neighbourhood. There were two sets of [[Jack-in-the-Green|Jacks-in-the-Green]] when I was a boy, the Potter and the Whiting parties, and a considerable rivalry existed between them.

[[Category:May Day]]

Henry Burstow

2008-06-29T01:13:44Z

MalcolmDouglas: external links added for 'Reminiscences' page references

[[image:henry_burstow_cropped.jpg|left|Henry Burstow: frontispiece, Reminiscences of Horsham, cropped image]]Henry Burstow, 1826-1916, [[Sussex]] singer and bellringer. Collected by [[Lucy Broadwood]] and [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]].

He was born on 11th December 1826 at 34 The Bishopric, Horsham, West Sussex, the second youngest of nine children. His father William Burstow (born 1781) worked as a clay tobacco-pipe maker, assisted by his wife Ellen (died 1857). The Bishopric, commonly known as “The Rookery”, was the poorest and roughest part of Horsham, and the Burstow home served, in Henry’s own words, as “‘factory’, dwelling house and shop” (Reminiscences p9 [http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow_1.html#9]). A shoemaker for all of his working life, Burstow’s fame rests principally upon his singing: the size of his repertoire, and his importance to the late nineteenth / early twentieth century English folksong revival. We know more about his life than that of the average nineteenth century artisan through the writings of folksong collector [[Lucy Broadwood]], and his own “Reminiscences of Horsham”, put together and brought into print by Horsham local historian William Albery.

Burstow began to attend the infant school run by a Miss Sayers in the Bishopric “almost as soon as I could toddle” (Reminiscences p22 [http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow_2.html#22]), with his first year’s fees paid for by a generous Quaker, Mr Pollard. He subsequently attended the Horsham British Schools, the Church School (from 1834) and Collyer’s Free School (1838-1840).

In 1840 he was apprenticed to Jim Vaughan to learn the boot and shoemaking trade. This was an important local industry which employed forty to fifty men, “good hard-workers and sound beer-drinkers to a man” (Reminiscences p23 [http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow_2.html#23]). For the first year Burstow worked for no pay. In the second he earned two shillings a week, and this rose by one shilling a week at the end of each year that he spent in apprenticeship. After spending around ten years with Vaughan, he went to work for Mr Gilburd, with whom he stayed until 1880, making mainly women’s boots at one shilling and sixpence a pair. Burstow records that on average he earned fifteen shillings a week, for a week’s work of sixty to seventy hours. He never earned more than nineteen shillings and sixpence - and this in a week when he made thirteen pairs of boots, working every available hour.

Henry Burstow married Elizabeth Pratt (1833 - 1909), the daughter of a Horsham gardener, in 1855. On his wedding day Burstow rang peals “all day long” (Remiscences p102 [http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow_bellringing_2.html#102]) in company with seven other shoemakers, including the Warnham musician and parish clerk [[Michael Turner]].

Burstow took up bellringing soon after he was apprenticed, at the instigation of John Vaughan, his master’s father, who was Sexton and head bellringer (and who paid his three shilling entrance fee). Bell-ringing became one of his chief pursuits, which he pursued until very late in life. Burstow regretted that when he joined the belfry the Horsham ringers had neither the skill nor the inclination to recreate the change-ringing feats of their late eighteenth century predecessors. However Burstow made the acquaintance of ringers at other parishes - principally Warnham and Newdigate - and was able to develop his own skills. He became well-known locally as a ringer, and in the 1860’s Horsham again became a place where change-ringing records were set.

Burstow rang in 55 Sussex, Surrey and Kent churches, and taught in 15 of these. Both ringing and teaching brought in welcome supplementary income, but they fulfilled primarily a social function. He recalls that at one time he would walk the eight miles to Newdigate every Saturday evening, ring for around three hours, then “adjourn to the ‘Six Bells’ Public House for a jollification, drinking and smoking and song singing in turn” (Reminiscences p99 [http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow_bellringing_2.html#99]) - although it is worth noting that Burstow himself neither smoked nor drank. Leaving home after midnight he would then walk back to Horsham, returning home between two and three o’clock.

In an age when singing and music-making were very much a part of everyday life, Burstow was recognised within his community as a singer of note. He kept a list (reprinted in “Reminiscences” [http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow_songs.html#114]) of 420 songs which he knew by heart. Of these he had learned 84 from his father, who himself knew some 200 songs, and some from his mother. Burstow records the names and occupations of other men from whom he learned songs: some were learned from fellow workers or bellringers, some at “Country Wills” in the taprooms of local public houses - the words often exchanged for a pint of beer - while others came from ballad sheets bought at fairs.

In 1892-93 he lent his list of songs to [[Lucy Broadwood]]. In common with other collectors of the period she had strong preconceptions as to what was worth preserving, and she selected the 50 or 60 songs from the list which she considered to be “of the traditional ballad type” (English Traditional Songs and Carols p xi). Burstow visited Broadwood’s home at Lyne near Rusper and she collected 46 songs from him in all (in practice Broadwood, or the Horsham organist Herbert Buttifant, noted down the tune, while Burstow would write out the words and send them on to her). Subsequently more of Burstow’s songs were noted by [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], who lived at Leith Hill Place in Surrey (31 songs collected between 1903 and 1907) and W.H.Gill (a small number in 1911). Many of these were published in books such as Broadwood’s “English Traditional Songs and Carols” and in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society. Singers from Sussex provided a disproportionately large number of items in the early Journals, and of these 118 titles Burstow was the source of 31. It is ironic, however, that the collectors’ romantic vision of illiterate singers living in rural isolation simply did not fit the facts of Burstow’s life.

In 1907 Vaughan Williams phonographed two songs from Burstow. Unfortunately these recordings are now lost, but Lucy Broadwood published a full transcription of one, “Bristol Town” (English Traditional Songs and Carols p114-115), which illustrates the traditional singer’s ability to adapt a song’s tune and phrasing verse by verse.

While Burstow was feted by the pioneers of the folksong revival, he and his wife faced severe financial hardship. In 1907 they were in danger of being sent to the Workhouse: with no children to support them, their sole income came from Parish Relief, a small sum from sub-letting part of their cottage, and gifts from old friends and bellringers (even though Burstow was now too old to ring regularly). A jeweller, Jury Cramp, opened a subscription to provide the Burstows with a lump sum, while saddler William Albery organised a fund from which they could receive a pension of ten shillings a week. Albery had first met Burstow when they were choirboy and head bellringer respectively. Albery’s interest in local history had later led him to befriend the old man, and he now hit upon the idea of a history of Horsham - based upon Burstow’s personal and family memories, but expanded by reference to other sources - as a way of helping him financially. It became apparent that Burstow might not live to see the publication of a major work, so Albery scaled down his plans and arranged for the publication of “Reminiscences” in 1911. Two impressions - of five hundred and four hundred - were printed, and after the deduction of costs all income went to Burstow.

The book’s title is apt: it is neither a formal history of the town nor an autobiography (written throughout in Burstow’s own words, Albery’s name appears nowhere in the work). Its importance is in the picture it presents of small town life through the eyes of a working man. Burstow tells us of the hardships of everyday life, of political events (notably the passing of the 1832 Reform Bill, and the corruption and disorder surrounding elections), and of features of the traditional calendar - May Day, November 5th, and St Crispin Day when Horsham performed its own version of “Rough Music”. The book is also an extremely rare example of a traditional singer’s words and thoughts being preserved in print, providing important details on how songs were transmitted, and the social context of music-making.

Saved from the Workhouse, Burstow seems to have become something of a local celebrity. He was invited to sing in front of a large audience at a silver band concert in the Kings Head Assembly Room in 1908, while articles on Burstow began to appear in local newspapers and national magazines. These focussed on his singing, his bellringing, his prodigious memory and fascination with figures, and even his atheism. A religious and political freethinker, convinced of the truth of Darwinism and not inclined to conceal his beliefs, Burstow encountered some prejudice - indeed some gave his beliefs as a reason for not contributing to the funds set up to relieve his financial distress. However the Horsham clergy generally accepted his candidly-expressed views - “I fetch ‘em in, and I leaves you to drive ‘em away” the enthusiastic bellringer is reported to have told one vicar (quoted in Reminiscences p xv) - and the Unitarian Albery was able to persuade the Free Church Society to sponsor the publication of “[[Henry Burstow's Reminiscences|Reminiscences]]”.

Burstow died on 30th January 1916 at his home in Spencer’s Road, Horsham and was buried on 4th February at Hill’s Cemetery; several Sussex newspapers carried fairly substantial obituaries. He had lived all his life in the town - the first 42 years in the Bishopric - spending only six nights away from home. The memorial card circulated to his friends bore an epitaph that he had written himself:

'In ringing and singing I took great delight, 
And keeping good company by day and by night; 
Many an hour the bell I have tolled, 
And now I am dead may the Lord receive my soul.'

Burstow was undoubtedly an exceptional character, and an important figure within his community. However it is largely through good fortune that we know as much as we do about the man - factors such as his literacy, his passion for maintaining lists and records of events in his notebooks, the fact that he came to the attention of two important locally-resident folksong collectors, the interest and commitment of Albery, his longevity.

== Henry Burstow's repertoire ==

#[[Boney's Farewell to Paris]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Boney in St. Helena]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Boney's Lamentation]]
#[[Deeds of Napoleon]]
#[[Dream of Napoleon]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Grand Conversation on Napoleon, The|The Grand Conversation of Napoleon]]
#[[The Soldier's Dream]]
#[[The Soldier's Tear]]
#[[The tired Soldier]]
#[[The poor worn out Soldier]]
#[[The Old Soldier's Daughter]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Old Deserter]]
#[[The New Deserter]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Stinson, the Deserter]]
#[[The Sailor's Dream]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Mary's Dream]]
#[[The Wife's Dream]]
#[[The Husband's Dream]]
#[[I had a Dream]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Battle of Waterloo]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Battle of Barrosa]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Battle of America]]
#[[The Standard Bearer]]
#[[Up with the standard of England]]
#[[Mother, is the battle o'er?]]
#[[The answer to it]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Wounded Hussar]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Allen's Return from the Wars]]
#[[The Rose of Allendale]]
#[[The Rose of Britain's Isle]]
#[[She wore a Wreath of Roses]]
#[[Ben Bolt]]
#[[Ben Bolt's Reply]]
#[[Tom Bowling]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Tom Hillyard]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Tom Tough]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Will Watch]]
#[[Harry Hawser]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Paul Jones]]
#[[John William Marchant]]
#[[Gibson, Wilson, and Johnson]]
#[[Gilderoy]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Auld Robin Gray]]
#[[Answer to ditto]]
#[[Barney A vouring]]
#[[Joe the Marine]]
#[[John Lawrence]]
#[[Ditto second part]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Larry O' Gaff]]
#[[Beautiful Kitty]]
#[[Kathleen Mavourneen]]
#[[Sarah had a little Lamb]]
#[[Helen Lorraine]]
#[[My Helen is the Fairest Flower]]
#[[Dear Charlotte when the Sun is Set]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Alice Gray]]
#[[Fanny Gray]]
#[[Nelly Gray]]
#[[Mrs. Myrtle]]
#[[Grace Darling]]
#[[Birth of Crazy Jane]]
#[[Crazy Jane]]
#[[Death of Crazy Jane]]
#[[Jeannette and Jeannot]]
#[[The Answer]]
#[[Pretty Phœbe]]
#[[Pretty Susan, the Pride of Kildare]]
#[[Annie Laurie]]
#[[Bristol Town]]
#[[Gentle Annie]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[I am leaving Thee in sorrow, Annie]]
#[[Lost Rosabel]]
#[[Minnie]]
#[[Little Nell]]
#[[Mary of Argyle]]
#[[Mary Blane]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Mary was a Beauty]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Sally, Sally one Day]]
#[[Poor Uncle Tom]]
#[[Uncle Ned]]
#[[Green Mossy Banks of the Lee]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Ye Banks and Braes of Bonny Doon]]
#[[Ye Banks of Bonny Winding Tyne]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Banks of the Dee]]
#[[Woodman Spare that Tree]]
#[[Butcher Spare that Lamb]]
#[[My good old Father's Mill]]
#[[My good Old Father's Farm]]
#[[The Old House at Home]]
#[[Home, Sweet Home]]
#[[The Rover]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Banks of Sweet Dundee]]
#[[The Star of Glengarry]]
#[[The Maid of Llangollen]]
#[[We have Lived and Loved Together]]
#[[My Skiff is by the Shore]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Adieu, my Native Land, Adieu]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Old England, what are you Coming to?]]
#[[Britain's Revenge on the Death of Nelson]]
#[[Madam, do you know my Trade is War?]]
#[[How Sweet in the Woodland]]
#[[Oh no, I never mention Her]]
#[[The answer to it]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[In Essex there lived a rich Farmer]]
#[[Oh cease, awhile, ye Winds to blow]]
#[[The Answer to it]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[When I was Young and in my Prime]]
#[[Yarmouth is a Pretty Town]]
#[[It's of a Sailor now I write]]
#[[The Lass of Brighton Town]]
#[[Polly's Love, or the Cruel Ship's Carpenter]]
#[[Rosetta and the Plough Boy]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Old Man and his three Daughters]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Flora, the Unkind Shepherdess]]
#[[Our Captain calls all Hands]]
#[[Isle of Beauty, fare Thee well]]
#[[Wealthy Farmer's Son]]
#[[The Constant Farmer's Son]]
#[[I will be a Gipsy]]
#[[The Gipsy's Tent]]
#[[Fitzgerald's Tent]]
#[[Jervis' Tent]]
#[[The Irish Emigrant]]
#[[The Answer to it]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Lango Lee]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Exile of Erin]]
#[[Leather Breeches]]
#[[Miser Grimes]]
#[[One Night I went to meet Her]]
#[[Old Gray Mare]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Mark and John Peteroe]]
#[[Old Dog Tray]]
#[[Poor Black Bess]]
#[[Bonny Black Bess]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Bonny Moon]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Storm]]
#[[The Minute Gun at Sea]]
#[[The Female Smuggler]]
#[[Highland Mary]]
#[[My Highland Home]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[['Ere around the Huge Oak]]
#[[The Oak Table]]
#[[A Song to the Oak]]
#[[The Effects of Love]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Green Hills of Tyrol]]
#[[Cabbage Green]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Belfast Mountains]]
#[[A Week's Matrimony]]
#[[Umbrella Courtship]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Croppy Boy]]
#[[The Sailor's Return]]
#[[The Lovers' Parting]]
#[[New York Street]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Plato's Advice]]
#[[Dulce Domum]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Through Moorfields]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[On Gosport Beach]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Gallant Poachers]]
#[[The Gallant Sailor]]
#[[Creeping Jane]]
#[[Death and the Lady]]
#[[The Scarlet Flower]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Post Captain]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Cabin Boy]]
#[[Gooseberry Wine]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Travel the Country Round]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Age of Man]]
#[[The Sailor Boy's Good-bye]]
#[[Angel's Whisper]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Spare a Halfpenny]]
#[[Some love to Roam]]
#[[The Blackbird]]
#[[The Woodpecker]]
#[[Our Bessie was a Sailor's Bride]]
#[[As I was Walking one Morning by Chance]]
#[[The Salt Sea]]
#[[The Pitcher]]
#[[The Haymakers]]
#[[The Marble Halls]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Sheffield Apprentice]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The London Apprentice]]
#[[The Fairy Tempter]]
#[[After Roving Many Years]]
#[[All's Well]]
#[[Annie Lisle]]
#[[The Plough Boy]]
#[[Night and Morn]]
#[[O Lovely Night]]
#[[The Little Town Boy]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Robin Hood and the Pedlar]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Past Ten o'clock]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Cobbler]]
#[[The Kiss dear Maid]]
#[[The Irish Girl's Lament]]
#[[The Boyhood Days]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Galley Slave]]
#[[Rosemary Lane]]
#[[In a Cottage near a Wood]]
#[[You Combers All]]
#[[The Young Jockey]]
#[[Little Cupid]]
#[[The last Rose of Summer]]
#[[Four and Nine]]
#[[The Tarry Sailor]]
#[[The Bridal Ring]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Banstead Down]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Pilot]]
#[[The Mariner's Grave]]
#[[I have journeyed over many Lands]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Our Trade and Commerce]]
#[[The Miller's three Sons]]
#[[The Cavalier]]
#[[Salisbury Plain]]
#[[To all you Ladies now on Land]]
#[[Nature's gay Days]]
#[[The Demon of the Seas]]
#[[He is gone to the Roaring Waves]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Wild Rover]]
#[[Vilikins and his Dinah]]
#[[The Troubadour]]
#[[Shells of the Ocean]]
#[[Oh, come to the Ingleside]]
#[[Give me but a Cot in the Valley I love]]
#[[Cherry Cheek Polly for Me]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[When the Morn stands on Tiptoe]]
#[[The Cot where I was born]]
#[[The Orphan Beggar Boy]]
#[[Red, White, and Blue]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Cottager's Daughter]]
#[[Old Folks at Home]]
#[[The Convict's Lamentation]]
#[[Butter, Cheese, and all]]
#[[With all Thy Faults I love Thee still]]
#[[Wait for the Waggon]]
#[[Oh Willie, we have missed you]]
#[[Rouse! Brother, Rouse! ]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Partant Pour la Syrie]]
#[[I'll hang my Harp on a Willow Tree]]
#[[The Heart and Head]]
#[[The Basket of Eggs]]
#[[Will you love Me then as now? ]]
#[[Dearest, then, I'll love Thee now]]
#[[Old Towler]]
#[[When other Lips]]
#[[Pretty Wench]]
#[[No Mistake in that]]
#[[The Beggar Girl]]
#[[My gentle Mother dear]]
#[[Isle of France]]
#[[The Little Bird]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The American Stranger]]
#[[Quite Politely]]
#[[Tally Ho]]
#[[The Light of other Days]]
#[[The Bay of Biscay]]
#[[The Lass O'Gowry]]
#[[Good News from Home]]
#[[Beautiful Star]]
#[[The Queen's Letter]]
#[[Nothing More]]
#[[Tempest of the Heart]]
#[[The Rent Days]]
#[[Abroad as I was Walking]]
#[[Down in those Meadows]]
#[[A Voice from the West]]
#[[To the West]]
#[[Ploughman turned Sailor]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Old Carrion Crow]]
#[[The Sailor's Tear]]
#[[Why did She leave Him]]
#[[Prairie Child]]
#[[Goodbye, Sweetheart]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Peggy Ban]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Duke of Marlborough]]
#[[The Young Recruit]]
#[[The Mistletoe Bough]]
#[[The Song of the Brave]]
#[[All among the Barley]]
#[[The sons of Fingal]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Blue Bells of Scotland]]
#[[The Happy Land]]
#[[The poor Fisherman's Boy]]
#[[So early in the Morning]]
#[[Hard Times come again no more]]
#[[Farewell to the Mountains]]
#[[Thou art gone from my Gaze]]
#[[The Banks of the Blue Moselle]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Months of the Year]]
#[[The Blighted Flower]]
#[[The Officer's Funeral]]
#[[The Sailor's Grave]]
#[[Cheer, Boys, Cheer]]
#[[Ever of Thee]]
#[[Kitty Terrall]]
#[[Popping the Question]]
#[[Aunt Sally]]
#[[Jemima Brown]]
#[[Maid of Judah]]
#[[The Gipsy Girl]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Not a Drum was heard]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[My old friend John]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Benbow]]
#[[Down in the Cornfields]]
#[[Meet Me by Moonlight alone]]
#[[The Cottage by the Sea]]
#[[Your lot is far above Me|You(r) lot is far above Me]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[A Rose Tree in full Bearing]]
#[[The Merry Mountain Horn]]
#[[Fair Lily of the Vale]]
#[[Kathleen O'Moore]]
#[[Where there's a Will there's a Way]]
#[[Oh Bitter and Cold was Night]]
#[[Sweet Spirit, Hear mymy Prayer]]
#[[Oh would I were a Bird]]
#[[The Hazel Dell]]
#[[Happy as a King]]
#[[Father, dear Father, come Home with Me now]]
#[[Beautiful Isle of the Sea]]
#[[Maid of Erin's Isle]]
#[[The Gleaner]]
#[[The Bride's Farewell]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Harry Bluff]]
#[[The Sicilian Maid]]
#[[The Village-born Beauty]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Jenny Jones]]
#[[Fifty years ago]]
#[[Nothing shall she Draw, but Water from the Well]]
#[[The Glasses sparkled on the Board]]
#[[Norah, sweet Norah]]
#[[My Friend and Pitcher]]
#[[The Minstrel Boy]]
#[[The Thorn]]
#[[You Lads and Lasses gay]]
#[[The Ivy Cottage]]
#[[Water Cresses]]
#[[Jimmy and Jenny]]
#[[Banks of Sweet Primroses]]
#[[Canadian Boat Song]]
#[[False One, I love Thee still]]
#[[William and Phyllis]]
#[[The Grecian Bend]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Billy and Sally]]
#[[After tasting many Beers]]
#[[I'll meet Thee at the Lane]]
#[[Wait for the Turn of the Tide]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Heart that can feel for Another]]
#[[The Captain and His Whiskers]]
#[[Just before the Battle, Mother]]
#[[Just after the Battle, Mother]]
#[[I am come across the Seas]]
#[[The Female Sailor]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Goddess Diana]]
#[[Green Bushes]]
#[[Bold Collins]]
#[[Sir Roger Tichbourne]]
#[[O leave not your Kathleen]]
#[[Come back to Erin]]
#[[The Gipsy's Warning]]
#[[The Answer to Ditto]]
#[[The Maiden's Reply]]
#[[The Merry Bells of England]]
#[[Far, Far Away]]
#[[Broker, spare that Bed]]
#[[Kitty Wells]]
#[[Sunshine follows Rain]]
#[[Write Me a Letter from Home]]
#[[Dublin Bay]]
#[[Belle Mahone]]
#[[Molly Darling]]
#[[Annie dear, I am called away]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[In the Downhill of Life]]
#[[When first in this Country a Stranger I came]]
#[[As I was going to Birmingham Fair]]
#[[Nancy Lee]]
#[[Silver Threads Among the Gold]]
#[[The Rat-catcher's Daughter]]
#[[Ring the Bell, Watchman]]
#[[Barrel of Beer]]
#[[Go and leave Me if you wish]]
#[[Put me in my Little Bed]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Auld Lang Syne]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[As I wandered by the Brookside]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Make Little Mary his Bride]]
#[[It was just against the Gate]]
#[[Away with Melancholy]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[Black Eyed Susan]]
#[[Good Old Jeff]]
#[[The Negro Boy]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[With my Pot in one Hand]]
#[[Nature's Holiday]]
#[[Won't you buy my pretty Flowers]]
#[[That dear old Stile]]
#[[The Crocodile]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The American has Stole my true Love away]]
#[[Begone Dull Care]]
#[[The Harp that once through Tara's Hall]]
#[[An Old Man came Courting Me]]
#<nowiki>*</nowiki>[[The Holy Friar]]
#[[Bread and Cheese and Kisses]]
#[[There came to Enslave us a Landlord of Erin]]
#[[The Garden Gate]]
#[[Joan and the Miller]]
#[[The Primrose Lass]]
#[[Roger and Flora]]
#[[The Devil He came to an Old Man at the Plough]]
#[[The Brighton Chain Pier]]
#[[The Second part ditto]]
#[[Bonny Bunch of Roses]]
#[[The North Fleet Weighed Anchor]]
#[[The 18th June]]
#[[Duke William]]
#[[We wassailing Lads are Come]]
#[[As I was walking one morning in May]]
#[[Jerry Brown and the Black Jug]]
#[[The Tavern]]
#[[The Donkey]]
#[[John Cladpole's Trip to London]]
#[[Tom Cladpole's Trip to America]]
#[[St. Nicholas' Church]]
#[[Turnips are Round]]

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Titles marked with an asterisk are those Henry learned from his father, of which 'Travel the Country Round' was the first.

== Bibliography ==

Henry Burstow. Reminiscences of Horsham, ed. A. E. Green and T. Wales (1975)

Henry Burstow. Reminiscences of Horsham: being Recollections of Henry Burstow The Celebrated Bellringer & Songsinger (1911) [http://folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow.html]

Andrew R. Turner, ‘Burstow, Henry (1826–1916)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/57089]

[[Category:Singer]][[Category:Sussex]]

Frank Kidson

2007-07-18T02:20:59Z

MalcolmDouglas:

'''Frank Kidson''', folksong collector, writer and antiquary. Born 15 November 1855 in Leeds; died, also in Leeds, 7 November 1926.

== External links ==
Roy Palmer, ‘Kidson, Frank (1855–1926)’, ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/57239]

Herbert Thompson, William C. Smith, Frank Howes, Rosemary Williamson, 'Kidson, Frank', ''[[Grove Music Online]]'' ed. L. Macy [http://www.grovemusic.com/]

John Francmanis & Vic Gammon (compilers) 'Frank Kidson's 'Collector' Articles in "The Choir", [http://www.tradsong.org/Kidson.htm]

== Publications ==
*Kidson, Frank, ed., ''[[Traditional Tunes]]: A Collection of Ballad Airs, Chiefly Obtained in Yorkshire and the South of Scotland; Together with their Appropriate Words from Broadsides and from Oral Tradition'' (Oxford: Chas. Taphouse, 1891; repr. East Ardsley: S. R. Publishers, 1970; repr. Felinfach: [http://www.llanerchpress.com/ Llanerch Press], 1999. ISBN 1 86143 088 4).

:Collection of songs edited in a scholarly manner (with the emphasis on the melody), mainly from Yorkshire, some illustrative of nineteenth-century social conditions.

*Kidson, Frank, ed., ''A Garland of English Folk-Songs, Being a Collection of Sixty Folk-Songs, with pianoforte accompaniments by Alfred Moffat'' (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, 1926).

:Mostly amended texts, with accompaniments.

*Kidson, Frank, ''Folk Songs from the North Countrie, with their Traditional Airs, ed. by Ethel Kidson, arranged for medium voice with piano accompaniment by Alfred Moffat, Foreword by Lucy E. Broadwood'' (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, 1927).

:Edition prepared by Kidson’s niece, who made many revisions (Kidson died in 1924); many of the 60 songs appeared in ''Traditional Tunes''.

*Kidson, Frank, ''English Peasant Songs, with their Traditional Airs, Being the Third (and Last) Selection of Sixty Folk Songs from the Frank Kidson Collection, ed. by and rev. by Ethel Kidson, airs arranged for medium voice with piano accompaniment by Alfred Moffat'' (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, 1929).

:Further edition of 60 songs prepared by Kidson’s niece, who made many revisions.

==Articles==

*Francmanis, John, 'Folk song and the "folk": a relationship illuminated by Frank Kidson's ''Traditional Tunes'''; in ''Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation'' (Aberdeen: [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/ Elphinstone Institute], 2004 ISBN 0 9545682 0 6), 186-194.

*Francmanis, John, 'The Roving Artist: Frank Kidson, Pioneer Song Collector' (London: [http://fmj.efdss.org/ FMJ], 8.1 (2001), 41-66

*Graham, John, 'The Late Mr. Kidson' (London: JEFDSS, 2.1 (1927), 48-51

*Palmer, Roy, 'Kidson's Collecting' (London: [http://fmj.efdss.org/ FMJ], 5.2 (1986), 150-75

*Palmer, Roy, 'Checklist of Manuscript Songs and Tunes collected from Oral Tradition by Frank Kidson', (London & Glasgow, EFDSS & The Mitchell Library (1986)

[[Category:Collector]]

Frank Kidson

2007-07-18T02:10:03Z

MalcolmDouglas: bibliographic detail added

'''Frank Kidson''', folksong collector, writer and antiquary. Born 15 November 1855 in Leeds; died, also in Leeds, 7 November 1926.

== External links ==
Roy Palmer, ‘Kidson, Frank (1855–1926)’, ''[[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]]'', Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/57239]

Herbert Thompson, William C. Smith, Frank Howes, Rosemary Williamson, 'Kidson, Frank', ''[[Grove Music Online]]'' ed. L. Macy [http://www.grovemusic.com/]

John Francmanis & Vic Gammon (compilers) 'Frank Kidson's 'Collector' Articles in "The Choir", [http://www.tradsong.org/Kidson.htm]

== Publications ==
*Kidson, Frank, ed., ''[[Traditional Tunes]]: A Collection of Ballad Airs, Chiefly Obtained in Yorkshire and the South of Scotland; Together with their Appropriate Words from Broadsides and from Oral Tradition'' (Oxford: Chas. Taphouse, 1891; repr. East Ardsley: S. R. Publishers, 1970; repr. Felinfach: Llanerch Press[http://www.llanerchpress.com/], 1999. ISBN 1 86143 088 4).

:Collection of songs edited in a scholarly manner (with the emphasis on the melody), mainly from Yorkshire, some illustrative of nineteenth-century social conditions.

*Kidson, Frank, ed., ''A Garland of English Folk-Songs, Being a Collection of Sixty Folk-Songs, with pianoforte accompaniments by Alfred Moffat'' (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, 1926).

:Mostly amended texts, with accompaniments.

*Kidson, Frank, ''Folk Songs from the North Countrie, with their Traditional Airs, ed. by Ethel Kidson, arranged for medium voice with piano accompaniment by Alfred Moffat, Foreword by Lucy E. Broadwood'' (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, 1927).

:Edition prepared by Kidson’s niece, who made many revisions (Kidson died in 1924); many of the 60 songs appeared in Traditional Tunes.

*Kidson, Frank, ''English Peasant Songs, with their Traditional Airs, Being the Third (and Last) Selection of Sixty Folk Songs from the Frank Kidson Collection, ed. by and rev. by Ethel Kidson, airs arranged for medium voice with piano accompaniment by Alfred Moffat'' (London: Ascherberg, Hopwood and Crew, 1929).

:Further edition of 60 songs prepared by Kidson’s niece, who made many revisions.

==Articles==

*Francmanis, John, 'Folk song and the "folk": a relationship illuminated by Frank Kidson's ''Traditional Tunes'''; in ''Folk Song: Tradition, Revival, and Re-Creation'' (Aberdeen: Elphinstone Institute [http://www.abdn.ac.uk/elphinstone/], 2004 ISBN 0 9545682 0 6), 186-194.

*Francmanis, John, 'The Roving Artist: Frank Kidson, Pioneer Song Collector' (London: FMJ, 8.1 (2001), 41-66

*Graham, John, 'The Late Mr. Kidson' (London: JEFDSS, 2.1 (1927), 48-51

*Palmer, Roy, 'Kidson's Collecting' (London: FMJ, 5.2 (1986), 150-75

*Palmer, Roy, 'Checklist of Manuscript Songs and Tunes collected from Oral Tradition by Frank Kidson', (London & Glasgow, EFDSS & The Mitchell Library (1986)

[[Category:Collector]]

Song Books

2007-07-13T16:45:23Z

MalcolmDouglas: /* Collections */

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation.

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland]]'', Compiled and edited by Ewan MacColl 1965, Oak Publications Books. Traditional songs, with music.

* ''[[I'm A Freeborn Man]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1968, Oak Publications, New York. Tells the story of the eight Radio Ballads (1957 - 1964) commissioned by the BBC. This book contains the story of the original radio ballads, songs taken from some of the ballads and other contemporary songs of struggle and conscience.

* ''[[Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1977, Routledge Keegan And Paul. The result of 15 years of collecting both in the south and south-eastern England and central and north-eastern Scotland. 130 songs arranged into themes along with stories. Excellent book.

* ''[[Till Doomsday in the Afternoon]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1986, Manchester University Press. The result of 20 years of following the fortunes of the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, a family of Scots Travellers. An enormous treasury of tales, jokes, riddles, children's songs and and the words and music of some seventy songs.

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', [[A. L. Lloyd]], second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', [[Roy Palmer]], 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* '' A Touch on the Times'', Songs of Social Change 1770- 1914 Edited by [[Roy Palmer]], Penguin Education 1974

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', [[Karl Dallas]], 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster [[Karl Dallas]], 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', [[Stan Hugill]], 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - [[Roy Palmer]], 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', [[Maud Karpeles]], 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', [[Pat Shaw|Pat Shuldham-Shaw]], Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors [[Gavin Greig]] and [[John Duncan]], who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''[[Marrow Bones]]'', ''[[The Wanton Seed]]'', ''[[The Constant Lovers]]'', and ''[[The Foggy Dew]]'', [[Frank Purslow]], 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of and [[H.E.D. Hammond|Henry]] and [[Robert Hammond]] and [[George Gardiner]], who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, extensively revised edition of ''[[Marrow Bones]]'' was published by EFDSS in June 2007, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. A new edition of ''[[The Wanton Seed]]'' is planned for 2008.

* EFDSS also published two books from the collecting of [[Fred Hamer]] and one from the collecting of [[Ken Stubbs]]. These were ''Garners Gay: English Folk songs collected by Fred Hamer'' (1967): ''The Life of a Man: English Folk Songs from the Home Counties collected by Ken Stubbs'' (1970); and ''Green Groves: More English Folk Songs collected by Fred Hamer'' (1973).

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1983, J M Dent.

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', [[Roy Palmer]], 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections): http://www.llanerchpress.com/

Song Books

2007-07-11T04:22:16Z

MalcolmDouglas:

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation.

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland]]'', Compiled and edited by Ewan MacColl 1965, Oak Publications Books. Traditional songs, with music.

* ''[[I'm A Freeborn Man]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1968, Oak Publications, New York. Tells the story of the eight Radio Ballads (1957 - 1964) commissioned by the BBC. This book contains the story of the original radio ballads, songs taken from some of the ballads and other contemporary songs of struggle and conscience.

* ''[[Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1977, Routledge Keegan And Paul. The result of 15 years of collecting both in the south and south-eastern England and central and north-eastern Scotland. 130 songs arranged into themes along with stories. Excellent book.

* ''[[Till Doomsday in the Afternoon]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1986, Manchester University Press. The result of 20 years of following the fortunes of the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, a family of Scots Travellers. An enormous treasury of tales, jokes, riddles, children's songs and and the words and music of some seventy songs.

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* '' A Touch on the Times'', Songs of Social Change 1770- 1914 Edited by Roy Palmer, Penguin Education 1974

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', Roy Palmer, 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - Roy Palmer, 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', Maud Karpeles, 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.
 

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan, who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, extensively revised edition of [[Marrow Bones]] was published by EFDSS in June 2007, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. A new edition of [[The Wanton Seed]] is planned for 2008.

* EFDSS also published two books from the collecting of Fred Hamer and one from the collecting of Ken Stubbs. These were ''Garners Gay: English Folk songs collected by Fred Hamer'' (1967): ''The Life of a Man: English Folk Songs from the Home Counties collected by Ken Stubbs'' (1970); and ''Green Groves: More English Folk Songs collected by Fred Hamer'' (1973).

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1983, J.M Dent

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections): http://www.llanerchpress.com/

Song Books

2007-07-11T04:20:44Z

MalcolmDouglas: 'Marrow Bones': link to folkshop added; plus various textual and formatting amendments.

==General Anthologies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation.

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''[[The Singing Island]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''[[Folk Songs and Ballads of Scotland]]'', Compiled and edited by Ewan MacColl 1965, Oak Publications Books. Traditional songs, with music.

* ''[[I'm A Freeborn Man]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1968, Oak Publications, New York. Tells the story of the eight Radio Ballads (1957 - 1964) commissioned by the BBC. This book contains the story of the original radio ballads, songs taken from some of the ballads and other contemporary songs of struggle and conscience.

* ''[[Travellers' Songs from England and Scotland]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1977, Routledge Keegan And Paul. The result of 15 years of collecting both in the south and south-eastern England and central and north-eastern Scotland. 130 songs arranged into themes along with stories. Excellent book.

* ''[[Till Doomsday in the Afternoon]]'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1986, Manchester University Press. The result of 20 years of following the fortunes of the Stewarts of Blairgowrie, a family of Scots Travellers. An enormous treasury of tales, jokes, riddles, children's songs and and the words and music of some seventy songs.

* ''[[Folk Songs of Britain and Ireland]]'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* '' A Touch on the Times'', Songs of Social Change 1770- 1914 Edited by Roy Palmer, Penguin Education 1974

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''The Cruel Wars'', 100 Soldiers Songs from Agincourt to Ulster Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

* ''Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland'' Elisabeth Bristol Greenleaf and Grace Yarrow Mansfield, 1933, Memorial University of Newfoundland

* ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'', Roy Palmer, 1986, Oxford University Press

* ''Boxing The Compass - Sea Songs and Shanties'' - Roy Palmer, 2001, Herron Publishing (Previously ''The Oxford Book of Sea Songs'' - now expanded)

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', Maud Karpeles, 1974, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.
 

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan, who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, extensively revised edition of [[Marrow Bones]] was published by EFDSS in June 2007, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. A new edition of [[The Wanton Seed]] is planned for 2008.

* EFDSS also published two books from the collecting of Fred Hamer and one from the collecting of Ken Stubbs. These were ''Garners Gay: English Folk songs collected by Fred Hamer'' (1967): ''The Life of a Man: English Folk Songs from the Home Counties collected by Ken Stubbs'' (1970); and ''Green Groves: More English Folk Songs collected by Fred Hamer'' (1973).

* ''Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1983, J.M Dent

* ''Bushes and Briars, Folk Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams'', Roy Palmer, 1999, Llanerch Press (As 1983 but with corrections): http://www.llanerchpress.com/

Sabine Baring-Gould

2007-07-01T03:29:19Z

MalcolmDouglas: /* External links */link added to online transcription of Baring-Gould's 'Essay on English Folk-Music'.

'''Sabine Baring-Gould''', English clergyman, folksong collector, novelist and writer. Born Exeter, 28 Jan 1834; died Lewtrenchard, Devon, 2 Jan 1924.

Educated at Cambridge, Baring-Gould was ordained in 1864. On his father’s death in 1872 he inherited the family estates at Lewtrenchard, where he became rector in 1881, and served as a Justice of the Peace. He travelled widely and wrote extensively on both theological and more general topics.
He was the author of the words of many well-known hymns, Onward, Christian Soldiers being the best known example.

Baring-Gould was also a pioneer in the collection of English folksong: between 1888 and 1891 he published 110 songs, transcribed from performances by singers in [[Devon]] and [[Cornwall]], as ''Songs and Ballads of the West''. This collection was made jointly with the Rev. H.F. Sheppard, sub-dean of the Savoy Chapel. The two men collaborated also on ''A Garland of Country Song'' (1895) and ''English Minstrelsie'' (1895–6).

Although Baring-Gould has been criticised for his bowdlerisation - indeed, in some cases, rewriting - of many of the songs that he collected, it is worth remembering that as a collector he was preceded in England only by [[John Broadwood|John]] and [[Lucy Broadwood]]’s ''Sussex Songs'' (1843, 1888). Baring-Gould and Sheppard's publications came several years earlier than the folksong collections of [[W.A. Barrett]], [[Frank Kidson]], [[John Stokoe]] and [[J.A. Fuller Maitland]]. [[Cecil Sharp]]’s revision of ''Songs and Ballads of the West'' (1905) reflects the influence of Baring-Gould’s early work on Sharp’s own choice of collecting ground.

== External links ==
[http://www.greenjack.btinternet.co.uk/ Sabine Baring-Gould and the folk songs of South-West England] - site maintained by [[Martin Graebe]].

[http://folk-network.com/miscellany/baring_gould/baring-gould.html Essay on English Folk-Music] - from volume VII of Baring-Gould's ''English Minstrelsie: a National Monument of English Song''.

== References ==
Brenda Colloms, ‘Gould, Sabine Baring- (1834–1924)’, [[Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]], Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30587

Bernarr Rainbow: 'Baring-Gould, Sabine', [[Grove Music Online]] ed. L. Macy, http://www.grovemusic.com

[[Category:Collector]]

Talk:Song

2007-04-03T22:29:06Z

MalcolmDouglas:

My comments, typically, are quite long. Might it be useful to have a bit of a debate via the discussion list, or shall I inflict them on you here?

--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 23:29, 3 April 2007 (BST)

I think either 1 or 2 would fit the bill at the moment. Do we have a view on how many songs, details, texts, versions, etc the site will contain?

Pete Wood

Andy Turner has been looking at how song information might be organised. He has produced 4 schemes which are viewable [[Image:Songs_scheme.pdf|Songs Scheme]]

Comments welcome.

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:28, 3 April 2007 (BST)

Johnny has now changed the heading to 'Books since 1900', which works better, I think.
Usual (though not invariable) practice is to italicize book titles and enclose song titles in single quotes.

Malcolm Douglas--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 02:31, 2 April 2007 (BST)

I think we may need to look at these section soon anyway. If we have "last century" and "song books", where to we put the book?
On another point, I am sailing on using italics for both book titles and song titles. Do we need to use different formats for these two perhaps?

Pete Wood--[[User:PeteWood|PeteWood]] 22:44, 1 April 2007 (BST)

One thing. 'Books from the last century'. Since we're only a few short years into the current one, mightn't it be a good plan to say instead '20th century'? For most people presently able to read, the 'last century' is still the 19th, so something a little more specific might perhaps be helpful.

--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 1 April 2007

Pete, My feeling is that as information builds, then detail is pushed deeper. The big list of singers is obviously too long for a front page so it can be easily transferred to a level back and have a link leading to it.

The idea is that we can reorganise the structure as we share ideas and develop a sense of the way things will develop. The way you have categorised below seems eminently sensible and would be a way forward.

I would add 1.5 Rural Songs and note that some songs may be accessed via more than one route

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:57, 28 March 2007 (BST)

I'm new to this, as are most of us I suspect, but my instinct is that we should talk a bit to each other even at this early stage. My first question for the group is-who is our readership? People will come to the site with very different levels of knowledge. The "First Level" should be very gentle, assuming the reader has no knowledge of folk song, but constructed so that the person wil be stimulated to go into gradually increasing depth, as well as enabling afficianados to get quickly to where they want to be. At the moment, we scroll down the song page, and get a long list of names of singers, which is excellent stuff for "Level 2 or 3" user, but perhaps offputting to the casual "Level 1" visitor. Same applies to song types, which I have started but certainly not finished. So perhaps we should be able to scroll down less, but click on more?

I'm loth at the moment to go in and make wholesale changes without some discussion, but for now, would not this a be more logical first level structure for the Song Section?

# 1 English Songs
* 1.1 Sea Songs
* 1.2 Industrial Songs
* 1.3 Love Songs
* 1.4 Ceremonial Songs

# 2 Traditional Singers
* 2.1 English Singers
* 2.2 Scots Singers
* 2.3 Irish Singers
* 2.4 North American Singers

# 3 Performance

# 4 Resources
4.1 Recordings
4.1.1 Commercially Available Recordings
4.2 Books & Bibliographies
4.3 Indexes

Pete Wood

Talk:Song

2007-04-02T01:31:31Z

MalcolmDouglas:

Johnny has now changed the heading to 'Books since 1900', which works better, I think.
Usual (though not invariable) practice is to italicize book titles and enclose song titles in single quotes.

Malcolm Douglas--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 02:31, 2 April 2007 (BST)

I think we may need to look at these section soon anyway. If we have "last century" and "song books", where to we put the book?
On another point, I am sailing on using italics for both book titles and song titles. Do we need to use different formats for these two perhaps?

Pete Wood--[[User:PeteWood|PeteWood]] 22:44, 1 April 2007 (BST)

One thing. 'Books from the last century'. Since we're only a few short years into the current one, mightn't it be a good plan to say instead '20th century'? For most people presently able to read, the 'last century' is still the 19th, so something a little more specific might perhaps be helpful.

--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 1 April 2007

Pete, My feeling is that as information builds, then detail is pushed deeper. The big list of singers is obviously too long for a front page so it can be easily transferred to a level back and have a link leading to it.

The idea is that we can reorganise the structure as we share ideas and develop a sense of the way things will develop. The way you have categorised below seems eminently sensible and would be a way forward.

I would add 1.5 Rural Songs and note that some songs may be accessed via more than one route

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:57, 28 March 2007 (BST)

I'm new to this, as are most of us I suspect, but my instinct is that we should talk a bit to each other even at this early stage. My first question for the group is-who is our readership? People will come to the site with very different levels of knowledge. The "First Level" should be very gentle, assuming the reader has no knowledge of folk song, but constructed so that the person wil be stimulated to go into gradually increasing depth, as well as enabling afficianados to get quickly to where they want to be. At the moment, we scroll down the song page, and get a long list of names of singers, which is excellent stuff for "Level 2 or 3" user, but perhaps offputting to the casual "Level 1" visitor. Same applies to song types, which I have started but certainly not finished. So perhaps we should be able to scroll down less, but click on more?

I'm loth at the moment to go in and make wholesale changes without some discussion, but for now, would not this a be more logical first level structure for the Song Section?

# 1 English Songs
* 1.1 Sea Songs
* 1.2 Industrial Songs
* 1.3 Love Songs
* 1.4 Ceremonial Songs

# 2 Traditional Singers
* 2.1 English Singers
* 2.2 Scots Singers
* 2.3 Irish Singers
* 2.4 North American Singers

# 3 Performance

# 4 Resources
4.1 Recordings
4.1.1 Commercially Available Recordings
4.2 Books & Bibliographies
4.3 Indexes

Pete Wood

Talk:Song

2007-04-01T04:57:09Z

MalcolmDouglas: comment

One thing. 'Books from the last century'. Since we're only a few short years into the current one, mightn't it be a good plan to say instead '20th century'? For most people presently able to read, the 'last century' is still the 19th, so something a little more specific might perhaps be helpful.

--[[User:MalcolmDouglas|MalcolmDouglas]] 1 April 2007

Pete, My feeling is that as information builds, then detail is pushed deeper. The big list of singers is obviously too long for a front page so it can be easily transferred to a level back and have a link leading to it.

The idea is that we can reorganise the structure as we share ideas and develop a sense of the way things will develop. The way you have categorised below seems eminently sensible and would be a way forward.

I would add 1.5 Rural Songs and note that some songs may be accessed via more than one route

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 12:57, 28 March 2007 (BST)

I'm new to this, as are most of us I suspect, but my instinct is that we should talk a bit to each other even at this early stage. My first question for the group is-who is our readership? People will come to the site with very different levels of knowledge. The "First Level" should be very gentle, assuming the reader has no knowledge of folk song, but constructed so that the person wil be stimulated to go into gradually increasing depth, as well as enabling afficianados to get quickly to where they want to be. At the moment, we scroll down the song page, and get a long list of names of singers, which is excellent stuff for "Level 2 or 3" user, but perhaps offputting to the casual "Level 1" visitor. Same applies to song types, which I have started but certainly not finished. So perhaps we should be able to scroll down less, but click on more?

I'm loth at the moment to go in and make wholesale changes without some discussion, but for now, would not this a be more logical first level structure for the Song Section?

# 1 English Songs
* 1.1 Sea Songs
* 1.2 Industrial Songs
* 1.3 Love Songs
* 1.4 Ceremonial Songs

# 2 Traditional Singers
* 2.1 English Singers
* 2.2 Scots Singers
* 2.3 Irish Singers
* 2.4 North American Singers

# 3 Performance

# 4 Resources
4.1 Recordings
4.1.1 Commercially Available Recordings
4.2 Books & Bibliographies
4.3 Indexes

Pete Wood

Song

2007-04-01T04:31:54Z

MalcolmDouglas: /* Indexes */

''Category Editor: Dr Vic Gammon''

There are many thousands of songs. There are many song collections and many versions of the same song. Where to start looking? That's the problem.

Note. Our intention is not to restrict this initiative to English Song, but to use the present headings as a starting point to view whatever develops from wherever it comes.

==Traditional Songs by Theme==

It's often difficult to categorise a song. Is the song of a Thames Bargeman a sea song or an industrial one? Likewise a Fishing song. Many industrial or rural songs had a political dimension. It doesn't do to worry too much about it - the categories are really just a rough guide to get to something that fits the browser's interest and in the spirit of the Wiki might lead to somewhere altogether unexpected!
Some [[Song Books]] are arranged by theme.

===[[Sea Songs]]===

===Rural Songs===

===[[Industrial Songs]]===

===Love Songs===

===Songs of Seduction===

===Songs of Good Company===

===Hunting and Poaching Songs===

===Songs of work, occupation and trade===

===Songs of Diversion===

===Travellers' Songs===

===Ceremonial Songs===

===Political Songs===

===[[Ballads]]===

==Traditional Singers==

==='''[[English Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Scottish Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Irish Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[North American Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Australian Source Singers]]'''===

==Performance==
''section editor Chris Coe''

This is a tricky section to think of including. One doesn't always associate folk song and 'performance' but some of the techniques applied by the traditional singers can bear scrutiny, especially by those who want to sing the same sort of songs.

The intimate fireside delivery of [[Walter Pardon]].......

[[Lizzie Higgins]] taking a deep breath, expanding to be a 'giant' and setting forth..........

[[Johnny Doughty]] turning his cap sideways and singing the [[Herring's Head]].....

And any one who has seen [[Jock Duncan]] perform the [[Two Sisters]] will have a vivid understanding of song delivery with gestures....

Watch this space.

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 22:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

==Resources==

===Recordings===
====Commercially Available Recordings====
''Currently available or deleted''

* [[Kyloe Records]]
* [[Leader Records]]
* [[Musical Traditions Records]]
* [[Topic Records]]
* [[Veteran]]
* [[Wildgoose Records]]
* [[New World Records]]

=== Books & Bibliographies===
Books of and about folk songs abound and seem to increase at an exponential rate. It is ironic that computerisation and digitalisation, which make this site possible, also make it much easier and cheaper to publish new books. In addition, many rare and inaccessible books from the past have been scanned and placed on the web in recent years, which has helped more and more people to find songs and contribute to scholarship and discussion. Probably the most complete and recent listing of books is the one given immediately below. After that, there follows a short selection of some important books.

====Bibliographies====

[http://www.efdss.org/songbib3.pdf English Folk Song Bibliography: An Introductory Bibliography Based on the Holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Third Edition, edited by David Atkinson]

====Books====
* [[Song Books]]

* [[Historic Books]] - Bronson, Chappell, Child, etc

* [[Books from the last century]]

* [[Modern Scholarship]]

===Indexes===

* The [[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]] [http://library.efdss.org online index] including
** [[Cecil Sharp]]
** [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]
** [[Maud Karpeles]]
** [[Lucy Broadwood]]
** [[H.E.D. Hammond]]
** [[Francis Collinson]]
** [[George Gardiner]]
** [[Percy Grainger]]

The site also gives you access to the [http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/textpage.cgi?file=aboutRoud&access=off Roud Index], compiled by Steve Roud.

The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of 143,000+ references to songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is the most important finding aid for traditional song ever compiled, and not even the most casual researcher can afford to do without it.

==The Folk Revival==
Contributors to ''Folkopedia'' frequently mention the "Folk Revival". What they normally mean is the quite sudden increase of interest in traditional song and music starting with pioneers in the 1950s and establishing itself in the 1960s with an explosion in the number of clubs and later festivals. Much has been written about the reasons for this, and this site will probably have a major section. The revival is sometimes called the "second folk revival", the first having been the major collecting activities of the 1890s and early 1900s, including the formation of the Folk-Song Society in 1899.

Song

2007-04-01T04:27:06Z

MalcolmDouglas: /* Resources */

''Category Editor: Dr Vic Gammon''

There are many thousands of songs. There are many song collections and many versions of the same song. Where to start looking? That's the problem.

Note. Our intention is not to restrict this initiative to English Song, but to use the present headings as a starting point to view whatever develops from wherever it comes.

==Traditional Songs by Theme==

It's often difficult to categorise a song. Is the song of a Thames Bargeman a sea song or an industrial one? Likewise a Fishing song. Many industrial or rural songs had a political dimension. It doesn't do to worry too much about it - the categories are really just a rough guide to get to something that fits the browser's interest and in the spirit of the Wiki might lead to somewhere altogether unexpected!
Some [[Song Books]] are arranged by theme.

===[[Sea Songs]]===

===Rural Songs===

===[[Industrial Songs]]===

===Love Songs===

===Songs of Seduction===

===Songs of Good Company===

===Hunting and Poaching Songs===

===Songs of work, occupation and trade===

===Songs of Diversion===

===Travellers' Songs===

===Ceremonial Songs===

===Political Songs===

===[[Ballads]]===

==Traditional Singers==

==='''[[English Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Scottish Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Irish Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[North American Source Singers]]'''===

==='''[[Australian Source Singers]]'''===

==Performance==
''section editor Chris Coe''

This is a tricky section to think of including. One doesn't always associate folk song and 'performance' but some of the techniques applied by the traditional singers can bear scrutiny, especially by those who want to sing the same sort of songs.

The intimate fireside delivery of [[Walter Pardon]].......

[[Lizzie Higgins]] taking a deep breath, expanding to be a 'giant' and setting forth..........

[[Johnny Doughty]] turning his cap sideways and singing the [[Herring's Head]].....

And any one who has seen [[Jock Duncan]] perform the [[Two Sisters]] will have a vivid understanding of song delivery with gestures....

Watch this space.

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 22:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

==Resources==

===Recordings===
====Commercially Available Recordings====
''Currently available or deleted''

* [[Kyloe Records]]
* [[Leader Records]]
* [[Musical Traditions Records]]
* [[Topic Records]]
* [[Veteran]]
* [[Wildgoose Records]]
* [[New World Records]]

=== Books & Bibliographies===
Books of and about folk songs abound and seem to increase at an exponential rate. It is ironic that computerisation and digitalisation, which make this site possible, also make it much easier and cheaper to publish new books. In addition, many rare and inaccessible books from the past have been scanned and placed on the web in recent years, which has helped more and more people to find songs and contribute to scholarship and discussion. Probably the most complete and recent listing of books is the one given immediately below. After that, there follows a short selection of some important books.

====Bibliographies====

[http://www.efdss.org/songbib3.pdf English Folk Song Bibliography: An Introductory Bibliography Based on the Holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Third Edition, edited by David Atkinson]

====Books====
* [[Song Books]]

* [[Historic Books]] - Bronson, Chappell, Child, etc

* [[Books from the last century]]

* [[Modern Scholarship]]

===Indexes===

* The [[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]] [http://library.efdss.org online index] including
** [[Cecil Sharp]]
** [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]
** [[Maud Karpeles]]
** [[Lucy Broadwood]]
** [[H.E.D. Hammond]]
** [[Francis Collinson]]
** [[George Gardiner]]
** [[Percy Grainger]]

The site also gives you access to the [http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/textpage.cgi?file=aboutRoud&access=off Roud Index], compiled by Steve Roud.

'The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of 143,000+ references to songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.'
It is the most important finding aid for traditional song ever compiled, and not even the most casual researcher can afford to do without it.

==The Folk Revival==
Contributors to ''Folkopedia'' frequently mention the "Folk Revival". What they normally mean is the quite sudden increase of interest in traditional song and music starting with pioneers in the 1950s and establishing itself in the 1960s with an explosion in the number of clubs and later festivals. Much has been written about the reasons for this, and this site will probably have a major section. The revival is sometimes called the "second folk revival", the first having been the major collecting activities of the 1890s and early 1900s, including the formation of the Folk-Song Society in 1899.

Song Books

2007-04-01T04:15:55Z

MalcolmDouglas: /* Collections */

==General Antholgies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation. Three important ones published in the early part of the current revival are:

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''The Singing Island'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''Folk Songs of Great Britain and Ireland'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''Cecil Sharp's Collection of English Folk Songs'', Maud Karpeles, 1975, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.
 

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan, who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, augmented edition of [[Marrow Bones]] will be published by EFDSS in spring 2007, and a new edition of [[The Wanton Seed]] is planned for early 2008.

Song Books

2007-04-01T04:10:17Z

MalcolmDouglas: additions and corrections.

==General Antholgies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation. Three important ones published in the early part of the current revival are:

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''The Singing Island'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''Folk Songs of Great Britain and Ireland'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.

* ''The Folk Song Collection of Cecil Sharp'', Maud Karpeles, 1975, Oxford University Press. About two-thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, mostly in their original forms, though not invariably accurately or completely transcribed by Dr Karpeles. In two volumes, but difficult to find except through university libraries and 'antiquarian' book dealers.
 

* ''The Greig-Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan, who worked in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp and his contemporaries were collecting mainly in the south and east of England. Eight volumes: numbers 2, 4, 7 and 8 of which can still be got from the publishers.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry and Robert Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. The books were intended for relative newcomers to folk song and, as was usual until very recently in 'popular' anthologies, many of the song texts were edited and collated in order to produce good 'singing' versions. A new, augmented edition of [[Marrow Bones]] will be published by EFDSS in spring 2007, and a new edition of [[The Wanton Seed]] is planned for early 2008.

Song Books

2007-04-01T03:17:34Z

MalcolmDouglas: /* General Antholgies */

==General Antholgies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation. Three important ones published in the early part of the current revival are:

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''The Singing Island'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''Folk Songs of Great Britain and Ireland'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.
* ''The Folk Song Collection of Cecil Sharp'', Maud Karpeles, 1975, Oxford University Press. About two thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, in their original form. In two volumes, but difficult to find outside University libraries.

* ''The Greig Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B. Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan collecting in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp. Not only as originally collected, but has a fascimile of the music. In eight volumes.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of small books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. Minor editing of some songs.

Song Books

2007-04-01T03:13:34Z

MalcolmDouglas: 'Penguin': errors corrected and links added.

==General Antholgies==

Books of folk songs can be comprehensive anthologies of songs from a region, from a country, or a nation. Three important ones published in the early part of the current revival are:

* ''The Penguin Book of English Folk Songs'', A L Lloyd and Ralph Vaughan Williams, several editions from 1959 onwards, Penguin Books. Seventy songs selected from ''The Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', with music, and the book most favoured by singers in the '60s revival as a source of songs. A revised edition, with more detailed notes, bibliography and information on the source singers, was published by EFDSS as [[Classic English Folk Songs]] in 2003, and can be bought from http://folkshop.efdss.org/. Web pages devoted to additions and corrections, with supporting material, can be seen at http://www.folk-network.com/miscellany/penguin/

* ''The Singing Island'', Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger, 1960, Mills Books. Another great favourite in the early revival. Mostly traditional songs, arranged by theme, and with music.

* ''Folk Songs of Great Britain and Ireland'', Peter Kennedy, 1975, Cassell. Again the songs are arranged by theme, largely using versions collected by Kennedy himself. Has music, and copious notes on each song, with useful references to other versions.

==Specific Subjects==
* ''Come All you Bold Miners'', A L Lloyd, second edition 1978, Laurence and Wishart

* ''A Taste of Ale'', Roy Palmer, 2000, Green Branch, Lechlade

* ''The Rambling Soldier'', Roy Palmer, 1977, Peacock Books

* ''Songs and Music of The Redcoats (1642 - 1902)'', Lewis Winstock, 1970, Leo Cooper Ltd

* ''One Hundred Songs of Toil'', Karl Dallas, 1974, Wolfe

* ''Shanties from the Seven Seas'', Stan Hugill, 1961, Routledge & Kegan Paul

==Collections==
Books which concentrate on the songs collected by one or two collectors.
* ''The Folk Song Collection of Cecil Sharp'', Maud Karpeles, 1975, Oxford University Press. About two thirds of the songs and tunes collected in England in the early 1900s by the most prolific collector, in their original form. In two volumes, but difficult to find outside University libraries.

* ''The Greig Duncan Folk Song Collection'', Pat Shuldham Shaw, Emily B. Lyle and others, 1981-2002, Aberdeen University Press and Mercat Press. The entire collection of the two Scots collectors Gavin Greig and John Duncan collecting in Aberdeenshire at the same time as Sharp. Not only as originally collected, but has a fascimile of the music. In eight volumes.

* ''Marrow Bones'', ''The Wanton Seed'', ''The Constant Lovers'', and ''The Foggy Dew'', Frank Purslow, 1965 to 1973, EFDS Publications Ltd. A series of small books with a selection of songs from the collections of Henry Hammond and George Gardiner, who collected mainly in Dorset and Hampshire respectively, again in the early 1900s. Minor editing of some songs.

Grand Conversation on Napoleon, The

2007-03-29T01:47:21Z

MalcolmDouglas: FSJ reference added, plus links to Roud Index and broadside examples at Bodleian, and refs. to other songs apparently written by George Brown.

'''The Grand Conversation on Napoleon'''

as sung by [[Henry Burstow]], Horsham, [[Sussex]].

#'Twas over that wild beating track, a friend of the bold Bonaparte Did pace the sands and lofty rocks of St Helena's shore; The wind blew in an hurricane, the lightening flash around did dart, The seagulls were shrieking and the waves all round did roar. 
#Ha hush, rude winds, the stranger cried, while I do range this dreary spot Where alas this gallant hero his heavy eyes did close; But while his valiant limbs do rot, his name shall never be forgot, This grand conversation on Napoleon arose. 
#Ha England, he cried, why did you persecute that hero bold? Much better had you slain him on the plains of Waterloo. Napoleon was a friend to heroes all, both young and old, He caused the money for to fly wherever he did go. 
#Plans were arranging night and day, this bold commander to betray, He cries, I'll go to Moscow and then it will ease my woes, If fortune shine without delay, all the world shall me obey, This grand conversation on Napoleon arose. 
#Thousands of thousands he then did rise, to conquer Moscow by surprise, He led his men across the Alps oppressed by frost and snow But being near the Russian land he then began to open his eyes, All Moscow was a-blazing and his men drove to and fro. 
#Napoleon dauntless viewed the flames and wept in anguish for the same, He cried, Retreat my gallant men, for time do swiftly go. What thousands died on that retreat, some were their horses forced to eat, This grand conversation on Napoleon arose. 
#At Waterloo his men they fought, commanded by great Bonaparte, Attended by Field Marshall Ney and he was bribed with gold. When Blucher led the Prussians in it nearly broke Napoleon's heart; He cried, My thirty thousand men are slain and I am sold. 
#He viewed the plains and cried, "'Tis lost," 'twas then his favourite charger crossed, The plains were in confusion with blood and dying woes, The bunch of roses did advance and boldly entered into France, This grand conversation on Napoleon arose.

Notation made by Vaughan Williams from Mr Burstow's singing (22 December 1904) is in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'' vol II (issue 8) 1906, pp 188-189.

[[Gordon Hall]], also from Horsham, sang a similar version, which can be heard on ''[[When the May is all in Bloom]]'', [[Veteran]] VT131CD.
see http://www.veteran.co.uk/vt131cd_words.htm

Roud Number 1189 [http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/query.cgi?index_roud=on&cross=off&type=Song&access=off&op_9=or&field_9=&op_12=or&field_12=&op_13=or&field_13=&op_14=or&field_14=&op_15=or&field_15=&op_16=or&field_16=&op_0=or&field_0=&op_17=or&field_17=&op_10=or&field_10=&op_11=or&field_11=&op_18=or&field_18=&op_19=or&field_19=&op_20=or&field_20=&op_21=or&field_21=&op_22=or&field_22=&op_23=or&field_23=&op_24=or&field_24=&op_5=or&field_5=&op_25=or&field_25=&op_26=or&field_26=&fieldshow=single&output=List&length=50&submit=Submit+query&op=or&query=1189&field=20]

A number of broadside examples [http://bodley24.bodley.ox.ac.uk/cgi-bin/acwwweng/regsrch.pl?recnums=4448:4491:15560:18967:18969:24331:24337:24645:27085:30679:46444:54248&index=1&db=ballads] can be seen at Bodleian Library Broadside Ballads: http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/

Note that the Pitts copy (Harding B 11(253)) carries a credit to one George Brown; nothing seems to be known of him beyond the fact that he is also credited on various broadsides as writer of such songs as [[Flora the Lily of the West]] (Roud 957, Laws P29),
[[The Merchant's Daughter and Constant Farmer's Son]] (Roud 675, Laws M33), and [[Young Napoleon, or The Bunch of Roses]] (Roud 664, Laws J5).

Henry Burstow

2007-03-25T20:20:55Z

MalcolmDouglas:

[[image:henry_burstow_cropped.jpg|left|Henry Burstow: frontispiece, Reminiscences of Horsham, cropped image]]Henry Burstow, 1826-1916, [[Sussex]] singer and bellringer. Collected by [[Lucy Broadwood]] and [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]].

He was born on 11th December 1826 at 34 The Bishopric, Horsham, West Sussex, the second youngest of nine children. His father William Burstow (born 1781) worked as a clay tobacco-pipe maker, assisted by his wife Ellen (died 1857). The Bishopric, commonly known as “The Rookery”, was the poorest and roughest part of Horsham, and the Burstow home served, in Henry’s own words, as “‘factory’, dwelling house and shop” (Reminiscences p9). A shoemaker for all of his working life, Burstow’s fame rests principally upon his singing: the size of his repertoire, and his importance to the late nineteenth / early twentieth century English folksong revival. We know more about his life than that of the average nineteenth century artisan through the writings of folksong collector [[Lucy Broadwood]], and his own “Reminiscences of Horsham”, put together and brought into print by Horsham local historian William Albery.

Burstow began to attend the infant school run by a Miss Sayers in the Bishopric “almost as soon as I could toddle” (Reminiscences p22),, with his first year’s fees paid for by a generous Quaker, Mr Pollard. He subsequently attended the Horsham British Schools, the Church School (from 1834) and Collyer’s Free School (1838-1840).

In 1840 he was apprenticed to Jim Vaughan to learn the boot and shoemaking trade. This was an important local industry which employed forty to fifty men, “good hard-workers and sound beer-drinkers to a man” (Reminiscences p23). For the first year Burstow worked for no pay. In the second he earned two shillings a week, and this rose by one shilling a week at the end of each year that he spent in apprenticeship. After spending around ten years with Vaughan, he went to work for Mr Gilburd, with whom he stayed until 1880, making mainly women’s boots at one shilling and sixpence a pair. Burstow records that on average he earned fifteen shillings a week, for a week’s work of sixty to seventy hours. He never earned more than nineteen shillings and sixpence - and this in a week when he made thirteen pairs of boots, working every available hour.

Henry Burstow married Elizabeth Pratt (1833 - 1909), the daughter of a Horsham gardener, in 1855. On his wedding day Burstow rang peals “all day long” (Remiscences p102) in company with seven other shoemakers, including the Warnham musician and parish clerk [[Michael Turner]].

Burstow took up bellringing soon after he was apprenticed, at the instigation of John Vaughan, his master’s father, who was Sexton and head bellringer (and who paid his three shilling entrance fee). Bell-ringing became one of his chief pursuits, which he pursued until very late in life. Burstow regretted that when he joined the belfry the Horsham ringers had neither the skill nor the inclination to recreate the change-ringing feats of their late eighteenth century predecessors. However Burstow made the acquaintance of ringers at other parishes - principally Warnham and Newdigate - and was able to develop his own skills. He became well-known locally as a ringer, and in the 1860’s Horsham again became a place where change-ringing records were set.

Burstow rang in 55 Sussex, Surrey and Kent churches, and taught in 15 of these. Both ringing and teaching brought in welcome supplementary income, but they fulfilled primarily a social function. He recalls that at one time he would walk the eight miles to Newdigate every Saturday evening, ring for around three hours, then “adjourn to the ‘Six Bells’ Public House for a jollification, drinking and smoking and song singing in turn” (Reminiscences p99) - although it is worth noting that Burstow himself neither smoked nor drank. Leaving home after midnight he would then walk back to Horsham, returning home between two and three o’clock.

In an age when singing and music-making were very much a part of everyday life, Burstow was recognised within his community as a singer of note. He kept a list (reprinted in “Reminiscences”) of 420 songs which he knew by heart. Of these he had learned 84 from his father, who himself knew some 200 songs, and some from his mother. Burstow records the names and occupations of other men from whom he learned songs: some were learned from fellow workers or bellringers, some at “Country Wills” in the taprooms of local public houses - the words often exchanged for a pint of beer - while others came from ballad sheets bought at fairs.

In 1892-93 he lent his list of songs to [[Lucy Broadwood]]. In common with other collectors of the period she had strong preconceptions as to what was worth preserving, and she selected the 50 or 60 songs from the list which she considered to be “of the traditional ballad type” (English Traditional Songs and Carols p xi). Burstow visited Broadwood’s home at Lyne near Rusper and she collected 46 songs from him in all (in practice Broadwood, or the Horsham organist Herbert Buttifant, noted down the tune, while Burstow would write out the words and send them on to her). Subsequently more of Burstow’s songs were noted by [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], who lived at Leith Hill Place in Surrey (31 songs collected between 1903 and 1907) and W.H.Gill (a small number in 1911). Many of these were published in books such as Broadwood’s “English Traditional Songs and Carols” and in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society. Singers from Sussex provided a disproportionately large number of items in the early Journals, and of these 118 titles Burstow was the source of 31. It is ironic, however, that the collectors’ romantic vision of illiterate singers living in rural isolation simply did not fit the facts of Burstow’s life.

In 1907 Vaughan Williams phonographed two songs from Burstow. Unfortunately these recordings are now lost, but Lucy Broadwood published a full transcription of one, “Bristol Town” (English Traditional Songs and Carols p114-115), which illustrates the traditional singer’s ability to adapt a song’s tune and phrasing verse by verse.

While Burstow was feted by the pioneers of the folksong revival, he and his wife faced severe financial hardship. In 1907 they were in danger of being sent to the Workhouse: with no children to support them, their sole income came from Parish Relief, a small sum from sub-letting part of their cottage, and gifts from old friends and bellringers (even though Burstow was now too old to ring regularly). A jeweller, Jury Cramp, opened a subscription to provide the Burstows with a lump sum, while saddler William Albery organised a fund from which they could receive a pension of ten shillings a week. Albery had first met Burstow when they were choirboy and head bellringer respectively. Albery’s interest in local history had later led him to befriend the old man, and he now hit upon the idea of a history of Horsham - based upon Burstow’s personal and family memories, but expanded by reference to other sources - as a way of helping him financially. It became apparent that Burstow might not live to see the publication of a major work, so Albery scaled down his plans and arranged for the publication of “Reminiscences” in 1911. Two impressions - of five hundred and four hundred - were printed, and after the deduction of costs all income went to Burstow.

The book’s title is apt: it is neither a formal history of the town nor an autobiography (written throughout in Burstow’s own words, Albery’s name appears nowhere in the work). Its importance is in the picture it presents of small town life through the eyes of a working man. Burstow tells us of the hardships of everyday life, of political events (notably the passing of the 1832 Reform Bill, and the corruption and disorder surrounding elections), and of features of the traditional calendar - May Day, November 5th, and St Crispin Day when Horsham performed its own version of “Rough Music”. The book is also an extremely rare example of a traditional singer’s words and thoughts being preserved in print, providing important details on how songs were transmitted, and the social context of music-making.

Saved from the Workhouse, Burstow seems to have become something of a local celebrity. He was invited to sing in front of a large audience at a silver band concert in the Kings Head Assembly Room in 1908, while articles on Burstow began to appear in local newspapers and national magazines. These focussed on his singing, his bellringing, his prodigious memory and fascination with figures, and even his atheism. A religious and political freethinker, convinced of the truth of Darwinism and not inclined to conceal his beliefs, Burstow encountered some prejudice - indeed some gave his beliefs as a reason for not contributing to the funds set up to relieve his financial distress. However the Horsham clergy generally accepted his candidly-expressed views - “I fetch ‘em in, and I leaves you to drive ‘em away” the enthusiastic bellringer is reported to have told one vicar (quoted in Reminiscences p xv) - and the Unitarian Albery was able to persuade the Free Church Society to sponsor the publication of “Reminiscences”.

Burstow died on 30th January 1916 at his home in Spencer’s Road, Horsham and was buried on 4th February at Hill’s Cemetery; several Sussex newspapers carried fairly substantial obituaries. He had lived all his life in the town - the first 42 years in the Bishopric - spending only six nights away from home. The memorial card circulated to his friends bore an epitaph that he had written himself:

'In ringing and singing I took great delight, 
And keeping good company by day and by night; 
Many an hour the bell I have tolled, 
And now I am dead may the Lord receive my soul.'

Burstow was undoubtedly an exceptional character, and an important figure within his community. However it is largely through good fortune that we know as much as we do about the man - factors such as his literacy, his passion for maintaining lists and records of events in his notebooks, the fact that he came to the attention of two important locally-resident folksong collectors, the interest and commitment of Albery, his longevity.

== Henry Burstow's repertoire ==
1 [[Boney's Farewell to Paris]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>2 [[Boney in St. Helena]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>3 [[Boney's Lamentation]] 
4 [[Deeds of Napoleon]] 
5 [[Dream of Napoleon]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>6 [[The Grand Conversation of Napoleon]] 
7 [[The Soldier's Dream]] 
8 [[The Soldier's Tear]] 
9 [[The tired Soldier]] 
10 [[The poor worn out Soldier]] 
11 [[The Old Soldier's Daughter]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>12 [[The Old Deserter]] 
13 [[The New Deserter]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>14 [[Stinson, the Deserter]] 
15 [[The Sailor's Dream]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>16 [[Mary's Dream]] 
17 [[The Wife's Dream]] 
18 [[The Husband's Dream]] 
19 [[I had a Dream]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>20 [[The Battle of Waterloo]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>21 [[The Battle of Barrosa]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>22 [[The Battle of America]] 
23 [[The Standard Bearer]] 
24 [[Up with the standard of England]] 
25 [[Mother, is the battle o'er?]] 
26 [[The answer to it]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>27 [[The Wounded Hussar]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>28 [[Allen's Return from the Wars]] 
29 [[The Rose of Allendale]] 
30 [[The Rose of Britain's Isle]] 
31 [[She wore a Wreath of Roses]] 
32 [[Ben Bolt]] 
33 [[Ben Bolt's Reply]] 
34 [[Tom Bowling]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>35 [[Tom Hillyard]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>36 [[Tom Tough]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>37 [[Will Watch]] 
38 [[Harry Hawser]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>39 [[Paul Jones]] 
40 [[John William Marchant]] 
41 [[Gibson, Wilson, and Johnson]] 
42 [[Gilderoy]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>43 [[Auld Robin Gray]] 
44 [[Answer to ditto]] 
45 [[Barney A vouring]] 
46 [[Joe the Marine]] 
47 [[John Lawrence]] 
48 [[Ditto second part]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>49 [[Larry O' Gaff]] 
50 [[Beautiful Kitty]] 
51 [[Kathleen Mavourneen]] 
52 [[Sarah had a little Lamb]] 
53 [[Helen Lorraine]] 
54 [[My Helen is the Fairest Flower]] 
55 [[Dear Charlotte when the Sun is Set]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>56 [[Alice Gray]] 
57 [[Fanny Gray]] 
58 [[Nelly Gray]] 
59 [[Mrs. Myrtle]] 
60 [[Grace Darling]] 
61 [[Birth of Crazy Jane]] 
62 [[Crazy Jane]] 
63 [[Death of Crazy Jane]] 
64 [[Jeannette and Jeannot]] 
65 [[The Answer]] 
66 [[Pretty Phœbe]] 
67 [[Pretty Susan, the Pride of Kildare]] 
68 [[Annie Laurie]] 
69 [[Bristol Town]] 
70 [[Gentle Annie]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>71 [[I am leaving Thee in sorrow, Annie]] 
72 [[Lost Rosabel]] 
73 [[Minnie]] 
74 [[Little Nell]] 
75 [[Mary of Argyle]] 
76 [[Mary Blane]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>77 [[Mary was a Beauty]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>78 [[Sally, Sally one Day]] 
79 [[Poor Uncle Tom]] 
80 [[Uncle Ned]] 
81 [[Green Mossy Banks of the Lee]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>82 [[Ye Banks and Braes of Bonny Doon]] 
83 [[Ye Banks of Bonny Winding Tyne]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>84 [[Banks of the Dee]] 
85 [[Woodman Spare that Tree]] 
86 [[Butcher Spare that Lamb]] 
87 [[My good old Father's Mill]] 
88 [[My good Old Father's Farm]] 
89 [[The Old House at Home]] 
90 [[Home, Sweet Home]] 
91 [[The Rover]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>92 [[Banks of Sweet Dundee]] 
93 [[The Star of Glengarry]] 
94 [[The Maid of Llangollen]] 
95 [[We have Lived and Loved Together]] 
96 [[My Skiff is by the Shore]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>97 [[Adieu, my Native Land, Adieu]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>98 [[Old England, what are you Coming to?]] 
99 [[Britain's Revenge on the Death of Nelson]] 
100 [[Madam, do you know my Trade is War?]] 
101 [[How Sweet in the Woodland]] 
102 [[Oh no, I never mention Her]] 
103 [[The answer to it]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>104 [[In Essex there lived a rich Farmer]] 
105 [[Oh cease, awhile, ye Winds to blow]] 
106 [[The Answer to it]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>107 [[When I was Young and in my Prime]] 
108 [[Yarmouth is a Pretty Town]] 
109 [[It's of a Sailor now I write]] 
110 [[The Lass of Brighton Town]] 
111 [[Polly's Love, or the Cruel Ship's Carpenter]] 
112 [[Rosetta and the Plough Boy]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>113 [[The Old Man and his three Daughters]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>114 [[Flora, the Unkind Shepherdess]] 
115 [[Our Captain calls all Hands]] 
116 [[Isle of Beauty, fare Thee well]] 
117 [[Wealthy Farmer's Son]] 
118 [[The Constant Farmer's Son]] 
119 [[I will be a Gipsy]] 
120 [[The Gipsy's Tent]] 
121 [[Fitzgerald's Tent]] 
122 [[Jervis' Tent]] 
123 [[The Irish Emigrant]] 
124 [[The Answer to it]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>125 [[Lango Lee]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>126 [[Exile of Erin]] 
127 [[Leather Breeches]] 
128 [[Miser Grimes]] 
129 [[One Night I went to meet Her]] 
130 [[Old Gray Mare]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>131 [[Mark and John Peteroe]] 
132 [[Old Dog Tray]] 
133 [[Poor Black Bess]] 
134 [[Bonny Black Bess]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>135 [[Bonny Moon]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>136 [[The Storm]] 
137 [[The Minute Gun at Sea]] 
138 [[The Female Smuggler]] 
139 [[Highland Mary]] 
140 [[My Highland Home]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>141 [['Ere around the Huge Oak]] 
142 [[The Oak Table]] 
143 [[A Song to the Oak]] 
144 [[The Effects of Love]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>145 [[The Green Hills of Tyrol]] 
146 [[Cabbage Green]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>147 [[Belfast Mountains]] 
148 [[A Week's Matrimony]] 
149 [[Umbrella Courtship]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>150 [[The Croppy Boy]] 
151 [[The Sailor's Return]] 
152 [[The Lovers' Parting]] 
153 [[New York Street]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>154 [[Plato's Advice]] 
155 [[Dulce Domum]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>156 [[Through Moorfields]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>157 [[On Gosport Beach]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>158 [[The Gallant Poachers]] 
159 [[The Gallant Sailor]] 
160 [[Creeping Jane]] 
161 [[Death and the Lady]] 
162 [[The Scarlet Flower]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>163 [[The Post Captain]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>164 [[The Cabin Boy]] 
165 [[Gooseberry Wine]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>166 [[Travel the Country Round]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>167 [[The Age of Man]] 
168 [[The Sailor Boy's Good-bye]] 
169 [[Angel's Whisper]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>170 [[Spare a Halfpenny]] 
171 [[Some love to Roam]] 
172 [[The Blackbird]] 
173 [[The Woodpecker]] 
174 [[Our Bessie was a Sailor's Bride]] 
175 [[As I was Walking one Morning by Chance]] 
176 [[The Salt Sea]] 
177 [[The Pitcher]] 
178 [[The Haymakers]] 
179 [[The Marble Halls]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>180 [[The Sheffield Apprentice]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>181 [[The London Apprentice]] 
182 [[The Fairy Tempter]] 
183 [[After Roving Many Years]] 
184 [[All's Well]] 
185 [[Annie Lisle]] 
186 [[The Plough Boy]] 
187 [[Night and Morn]] 
188 [[O Lovely Night]] 
189 [[The Little Town Boy]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>190 [[Robin Hood and the Pedlar]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>191 [[Past Ten o'clock]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>192 [[The Cobbler]] 
193 [[The Kiss dear Maid]] 
194 [[The Irish Girl's Lament]] 
195 [[The Boyhood Days]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>196 [[The Galley Slave]] 
197 [[Rosemary Lane]] 
198 [[In a Cottage near a Wood]] 
199 [[You Combers All]] 
200 [[The Young Jockey]] 
201 [[Little Cupid]] 
202 [[The last Rose of Summer]] 
203 [[Four and Nine]] 
204 [[The Tarry Sailor]] 
205 [[The Bridal Ring]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>206 [[Banstead Down]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>207 [[The Pilot]] 
208 [[The Mariner's Grave]] 
209 [[I have journeyed over many Lands]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>210 [[Our Trade and Commerce]] 
211 [[The Miller's three Sons]] 
212 [[The Cavalier]] 
213 [[Salisbury Plain]] 
214 [[To all you Ladies now on Land]] 
215 [[Nature's gay Days]] 
216 [[The Demon of the Seas]] 
217 [[He is gone to the Roaring Waves]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>218 [[The Wild Rover]] 
219 [[Vilikins and his Dinah]] 
220 [[The Troubadour]] 
221 [[Shells of the Ocean]] 
222 [[Oh, come to the Ingleside]] 
223 [[Give me but a Cot in the Valley I love]] 
224 [[Cherry Cheek Polly for Me]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>225 [[When the Morn stands on Tiptoe]] 
226 [[The Cot where I was born]] 
227 [[The Orphan Beggar Boy]] 
228 [[Red, White, and Blue]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>229 [[The Cottager's Daughter]] 
230 [[Old Folks at Home]] 
231 [[The Convict's Lamentation]] 
232 [[Butter, Cheese, and all]] 
233 [[With all Thy Faults I love Thee still]] 
234 [[Wait for the Waggon]] 
235 [[Oh Willie, we have missed you]] 
236 [[Rouse! Brother, Rouse! ]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>237 [[Partant Pour la Syrie]] 
238 [[I'll hang my Harp on a Willow Tree]] 
239 [[The Heart and Head]] 
240 [[The Basket of Eggs]] 
241 [[Will you love Me then as now? ]] 
242 [[Dearest, then, I'll love Thee now]] 
243 [[Old Towler]] 
244 [[When other Lips]] 
245 [[Pretty Wench]] 
246 [[No Mistake in that]] 
247 [[The Beggar Girl]] 
248 [[My gentle Mother dear]] 
249 [[Isle of France]] 
250 [[The Little Bird]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>251 [[The American Stranger]] 
252 [[Quite Politely]] 
253 [[Tally Ho]] 
254 [[The Light of other Days]] 
255 [[The Bay of Biscay]] 
256 [[The Lass O'Gowry]] 
257 [[Good News from Home]] 
258 [[Beautiful Star]] 
259 [[The Queen's Letter]] 
260 [[Nothing More]] 
261 [[Tempest of the Heart]] 
262 [[The Rent Days]] 
263 [[Abroad as I was Walking]] 
264 [[Down in those Meadows]] 
265 [[A Voice from the West]] 
266 [[To the West]] 
267 [[Ploughman turned Sailor]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>268 [[Old Carrion Crow]] 
269 [[The Sailor's Tear]] 
270 [[Why did She leave Him]] 
271 [[Prairie Child]] 
272 [[Goodbye, Sweetheart]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>273 [[Peggy Ban]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>274 [[Duke of Marlborough]] 
275 [[The Young Recruit]] 
276 [[The Mistletoe Bough]] 
277 [[The Song of the Brave]] 
278 [[All among the Barley]] 
279 [[The sons of Fingal]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>280 [[The Blue Bells of Scotland]] 
281 [[The Happy Land]] 
282 [[The poor Fisherman's Boy]] 
283 [[So early in the Morning]] 
284 [[Hard Times come again no more]] 
285 [[Farewell to the Mountains]] 
286 [[Thou art gone from my Gaze]] 
287 [[The Banks of the Blue Moselle]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>288 [[The Months of the Year]] 
289 [[The Blighted Flower]] 
290 [[The Officer's Funeral]] 
291 [[The Sailor's Grave]] 
292 [[Cheer, Boys, Cheer]] 
293 [[Ever of Thee]] 
294 [[Kitty Terrall]] 
295 [[Popping the Question]] 
296 [[Aunt Sally]] 
297 [[Jemima Brown]] 
298 [[Maid of Judah]] 
299 [[The Gipsy Girl]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>300 [[Not a Drum was heard]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>301 [[My old friend John]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>302 [[Benbow]] 
303 [[Down in the Cornfields]] 
304 [[Meet Me by Moonlight alone]] 
305 [[The Cottage by the Sea]] 
306 [[Your lot is far above Me|You(r) lot is far above Me]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>307 [[A Rose Tree in full Bearing]] 
308 [[The Merry Mountain Horn]] 
309 [[Fair Lily of the Vale]] 
310 [[Kathleen O'Moore]] 
311 [[Where there's a Will there's a Way]] 
312 [[Oh Bitter and Cold was Night]] 
313 [[Sweet Spirit, Hear mymy Prayer]] 
314 [[Oh would I were a Bird]] 
315 [[The Hazel Dell]] 
316 [[Happy as a King]] 
317 [[Father, dear Father, come Home with Me now]] 
318 [[Beautiful Isle of the Sea]] 
319 [[Maid of Erin's Isle]] 
320 [[The Gleaner]] 
321 [[The Bride's Farewell]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>322 [[Harry Bluff]] 
323 [[The Sicilian Maid]] 
324 [[The Village-born Beauty]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>325 [[Jenny Jones]] 
326 [[Fifty years ago]] 
327 [[Nothing shall she Draw, but Water from the Well]] 
328 [[The Glasses sparkled on the Board]] 
329 [[Norah, sweet Norah]] 
330 [[My Friend and Pitcher]] 
331 [[The Minstrel Boy]] 
332 [[The Thorn]] 
333 [[You Lads and Lasses gay]] 
334 [[The Ivy Cottage]] 
335 [[Water Cresses]] 
336 [[Jimmy and Jenny]] 
337 [[Banks of Sweet Primroses]] 
338 [[Canadian Boat Song]] 
339 [[False One, I love Thee still]] 
340 [[William and Phyllis]] 
341 [[The Grecian Bend]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>342 [[Billy and Sally]] 
343 [[After tasting many Beers]] 
344 [[I'll meet Thee at the Lane]] 
345 [[Wait for the Turn of the Tide]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>346 [[The Heart that can feel for Another]] 
347 [[The Captain and His Whiskers]] 
348 [[Just before the Battle, Mother]] 
349 [[Just after the Battle, Mother]] 
350 [[I am come across the Seas]] 
351 [[The Female Sailor]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>352 [[Goddess Diana]] 
353 [[Green Bushes]] 
354 [[Bold Collins]] 
354 [[Sir Roger Tichbourne]] 
355 [[O leave not your Kathleen]] 
357 [[Come back to Erin]] 
358 [[The Gipsy's Warning]] 
359 [[The Answer to Ditto]] 
360 [[The Maiden's Reply]] 
361 [[The Merry Bells of England]] 
362 [[Far, Far Away]] 
363 [[Broker, spare that Bed]] 
364 [[Kitty Wells]] 
365 [[Sunshine follows Rain]] 
366 [[Write Me a Letter from Home]] 
367 [[Dublin Bay]] 
368 [[Belle Mahone]] 
369 [[Molly Darling]] 
370 [[Annie dear, I am called away]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>371 [[In the Downhill of Life]] 
372 [[When first in this Country a Stranger I came]] 
373 [[As I was going to Birmingham Fair]] 
374 [[Nancy Lee]] 
375 [[Silver Threads Among the Gold]] 
376 [[The Rat-catcher's Daughter]] 
377 [[Ring the Bell, Watchman]] 
378 [[Barrel of Beer]] 
379 [[Go and leave Me if you wish]] 
380 [[Put me in my Little Bed]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>381 [[Auld Lang Syne]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>382 [[As I wandered by the Brookside]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>383 [[Make Little Mary his Bride]] 
384 [[It was just against the Gate]] 
385 [[Away with Melancholy]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>386 [[Black Eyed Susan]] 
387 [[Good Old Jeff]] 
388 [[The Negro Boy]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>389 [[With my Pot in one Hand]] 
390 [[Nature's Holiday]] 
391 [[Won't you buy my pretty Flowers]] 
392 [[That dear old Stile]] 
393 [[The Crocodile]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>394 [[The American has Stole my true Love away]] 
395 [[Begone Dull Care]] 
396 [[The Harp that once through Tara's Hall]] 
397 [[An Old Man came Courting Me]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>398 [[The Holy Friar]] 
399 [[Bread and Cheese and Kisses]] 
400 [[There came to Enslave us a Landlord of Erin]] 
401 [[The Garden Gate]] 
402 [[Joan and the Miller]] 
403 [[The Primrose Lass]] 
404 [[Roger and Flora]] 
405 [[The Devil He came to an Old Man at the Plough]] 
406 [[The Brighton Chain Pier]] 
407 [[The Second part ditto]] 
408 [[Bonny Bunch of Roses]] 
409 [[The North Fleet Weighed Anchor]] 
410 [[The 18th June]] 
411 [[Duke William]] 
412 [[We wassailing Lads are Come]] 
413 [[As I was walking one morning in May]] 
414 [[Jerry Brown and the Black Jug]] 
415 [[The Tavern]] 
416 [[The Donkey]] 
417 [[John Cladpole's Trip to London]] 
418 [[Tom Cladpole's Trip to America]] 
419 [[St. Nicholas' Church]] 
420 [[Turnips are Round]] 

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Titles marked with an asterisk are those Henry learned from his father, of which 'Travel the Country Round' was the first.

== Bibliography ==

Henry Burstow. Reminiscences of Horsham, ed. A. E. Green and T. Wales (1975)

Henry Burstow. Reminiscences of Horsham: being Recollections of Henry Burstow The Celebrated Bellringer & Songsinger (1911) [http://folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow.html]

Andrew R. Turner, ‘Burstow, Henry (1826–1916)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/57089]

[[Category:Singer]][[Category:Sussex]]

Henry Burstow

2007-03-25T20:19:01Z

MalcolmDouglas: /* Henry Burstow's repertoire */

[[image:henry_burstow_cropped.jpg|left|Henry Burstow: frontispiece, Reminiscences of Horsham, cropped image]]Henry Burstow, 1826-1916, [[Sussex]] singer and bellringer. Collected by [[Lucy Broadwood]] and [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]].

He was born on 11th December 1826 at 34 The Bishopric, Horsham, West Sussex, the second youngest of nine children. His father William Burstow (born 1781) worked as a clay tobacco-pipe maker, assisted by his wife Ellen (died 1857). The Bishopric, commonly known as “The Rookery”, was the poorest and roughest part of Horsham, and the Burstow home served, in Henry’s own words, as “‘factory’, dwelling house and shop” (Reminiscences p9). A shoemaker for all of his working life, Burstow’s fame rests principally upon his singing: the size of his repertoire, and his importance to the late nineteenth / early twentieth century English folksong revival. We know more about his life than that of the average nineteenth century artisan through the writings of folksong collector [[Lucy Broadwood]], and his own “Reminiscences of Horsham”, put together and brought into print by Horsham local historian William Albery.

Burstow began to attend the infant school run by a Miss Sayers in the Bishopric “almost as soon as I could toddle” (Reminiscences p22),, with his first year’s fees paid for by a generous Quaker, Mr Pollard. He subsequently attended the Horsham British Schools, the Church School (from 1834) and Collyer’s Free School (1838-1840).

In 1840 he was apprenticed to Jim Vaughan to learn the boot and shoemaking trade. This was an important local industry which employed forty to fifty men, “good hard-workers and sound beer-drinkers to a man” (Reminiscences p23). For the first year Burstow worked for no pay. In the second he earned two shillings a week, and this rose by one shilling a week at the end of each year that he spent in apprenticeship. After spending around ten years with Vaughan, he went to work for Mr Gilburd, with whom he stayed until 1880, making mainly women’s boots at one shilling and sixpence a pair. Burstow records that on average he earned fifteen shillings a week, for a week’s work of sixty to seventy hours. He never earned more than nineteen shillings and sixpence - and this in a week when he made thirteen pairs of boots, working every available hour.

Henry Burstow married Elizabeth Pratt (1833 - 1909), the daughter of a Horsham gardener, in 1855. On his wedding day Burstow rang peals “all day long” (Remiscences p102) in company with seven other shoemakers, including the Warnham musician and parish clerk [[Michael Turner]].

Burstow took up bellringing soon after he was apprenticed, at the instigation of John Vaughan, his master’s father, who was Sexton and head bellringer (and who paid his three shilling entrance fee). Bell-ringing became one of his chief pursuits, which he pursued until very late in life. Burstow regretted that when he joined the belfry the Horsham ringers had neither the skill nor the inclination to recreate the change-ringing feats of their late eighteenth century predecessors. However Burstow made the acquaintance of ringers at other parishes - principally Warnham and Newdigate - and was able to develop his own skills. He became well-known locally as a ringer, and in the 1860’s Horsham again became a place where change-ringing records were set.

Burstow rang in 55 Sussex, Surrey and Kent churches, and taught in 15 of these. Both ringing and teaching brought in welcome supplementary income, but they fulfilled primarily a social function. He recalls that at one time he would walk the eight miles to Newdigate every Saturday evening, ring for around three hours, then “adjourn to the ‘Six Bells’ Public House for a jollification, drinking and smoking and song singing in turn” (Reminiscences p99) - although it is worth noting that Burstow himself neither smoked nor drank. Leaving home after midnight he would then walk back to Horsham, returning home between two and three o’clock.

In an age when singing and music-making were very much a part of everyday life, Burstow was recognised within his community as a singer of note. He kept a list (reprinted in “Reminiscences”) of 420 songs which he knew by heart. Of these he had learned 84 from his father, who himself knew some 200 songs, and some from his mother. Burstow records the names and occupations of other men from whom he learned songs: some were learned from fellow workers or bellringers, some at “Country Wills” in the taprooms of local public houses - the words often exchanged for a pint of beer - while others came from ballad sheets bought at fairs.

In 1892-93 he lent his list of songs to [[Lucy Broadwood]]. In common with other collectors of the period she had strong preconceptions as to what was worth preserving, and she selected the 50 or 60 songs from the list which she considered to be “of the traditional ballad type” (English Traditional Songs and Carols p xi). Burstow visited Broadwood’s home at Lyne near Rusper and she collected 46 songs from him in all (in practice Broadwood, or the Horsham organist Herbert Buttifant, noted down the tune, while Burstow would write out the words and send them on to her). Subsequently more of Burstow’s songs were noted by [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]], who lived at Leith Hill Place in Surrey (31 songs collected between 1903 and 1907) and W.H.Gill (a small number in 1911). Many of these were published in books such as Broadwood’s “English Traditional Songs and Carols” and in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society. Singers from Sussex provided a disproportionately large number of items in the early Journals, and of these 118 titles Burstow was the source of 31. It is ironic, however, that the collectors’ romantic vision of illiterate singers living in rural isolation simply did not fit the facts of Burstow’s life.

In 1907 Vaughan Williams phonographed two songs from Burstow. Unfortunately these recordings are now lost, but Lucy Broadwood published a full transcription of one, “Bristol Town” (English Traditional Songs and Carols p114-115), which illustrates the traditional singer’s ability to adapt a song’s tune and phrasing verse by verse.

While Burstow was feted by the pioneers of the folksong revival, he and his wife faced severe financial hardship. In 1907 they were in danger of being sent to the Workhouse: with no children to support them, their sole income came from Parish Relief, a small sum from sub-letting part of their cottage, and gifts from old friends and bellringers (even though Burstow was now too old to ring regularly). A jeweller, Jury Cramp, opened a subscription to provide the Burstows with a lump sum, while saddler William Albery organised a fund from which they could receive a pension of ten shillings a week. Albery had first met Burstow when they were choirboy and head bellringer respectively. Albery’s interest in local history had later led him to befriend the old man, and he now hit upon the idea of a history of Horsham - based upon Burstow’s personal and family memories, but expanded by reference to other sources - as a way of helping him financially. It became apparent that Burstow might not live to see the publication of a major work, so Albery scaled down his plans and arranged for the publication of “Reminiscences” in 1911. Two impressions - of five hundred and four hundred - were printed, and after the deduction of costs all income went to Burstow.

The book’s title is apt: it is neither a formal history of the town nor an autobiography (written throughout in Burstow’s own words, Albery’s name appears nowhere in the work). Its importance is in the picture it presents of small town life through the eyes of a working man. Burstow tells us of the hardships of everyday life, of political events (notably the passing of the 1832 Reform Bill, and the corruption and disorder surrounding elections), and of features of the traditional calendar - May Day, November 5th, and St Crispin Day when Horsham performed its own version of “Rough Music”. The book is also an extremely rare example of a traditional singer’s words and thoughts being preserved in print, providing important details on how songs were transmitted, and the social context of music-making.

Saved from the Workhouse, Burstow seems to have become something of a local celebrity. He was invited to sing in front of a large audience at a silver band concert in the Kings Head Assembly Room in 1908, while articles on Burstow began to appear in local newspapers and national magazines. These focussed on his singing, his bellringing, his prodigious memory and fascination with figures, and even his atheism. A religious and political freethinker, convinced of the truth of Darwinism and not inclined to conceal his beliefs, Burstow encountered some prejudice - indeed some gave his beliefs as a reason for not contributing to the funds set up to relieve his financial distress. However the Horsham clergy generally accepted his candidly-expressed views - “I fetch ‘em in, and I leaves you to drive ‘em away” the enthusiastic bellringer is reported to have told one vicar (quoted in Reminiscences p xv) - and the Unitarian Albery was able to persuade the Free Church Society to sponsor the publication of “Reminiscences”.

Burstow died on 30th January 1916 at his home in Spencer’s Road, Horsham and was buried on 4th February at Hill’s Cemetery; several Sussex newspapers carried fairly substantial obituaries. He had lived all his life in the town - the first 42 years in the Bishopric - spending only six nights away from home. The memorial card circulated to his friends bore an epitaph that he had written himself:

'In ringing and singing I took great delight,

And keeping good company by day and by night;

Many an hour the bell I have tolled,

And now I am dead may the Lord receive my soul.'

Burstow was undoubtedly an exceptional character, and an important figure within his community. However it is largely through good fortune that we know as much as we do about the man - factors such as his literacy, his passion for maintaining lists and records of events in his notebooks, the fact that he came to the attention of two important locally-resident folksong collectors, the interest and commitment of Albery, his longevity.

== Henry Burstow's repertoire ==
1 [[Boney's Farewell to Paris]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>2 [[Boney in St. Helena]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>3 [[Boney's Lamentation]] 
4 [[Deeds of Napoleon]] 
5 [[Dream of Napoleon]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>6 [[The Grand Conversation of Napoleon]] 
7 [[The Soldier's Dream]] 
8 [[The Soldier's Tear]] 
9 [[The tired Soldier]] 
10 [[The poor worn out Soldier]] 
11 [[The Old Soldier's Daughter]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>12 [[The Old Deserter]] 
13 [[The New Deserter]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>14 [[Stinson, the Deserter]] 
15 [[The Sailor's Dream]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>16 [[Mary's Dream]] 
17 [[The Wife's Dream]] 
18 [[The Husband's Dream]] 
19 [[I had a Dream]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>20 [[The Battle of Waterloo]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>21 [[The Battle of Barrosa]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>22 [[The Battle of America]] 
23 [[The Standard Bearer]] 
24 [[Up with the standard of England]] 
25 [[Mother, is the battle o'er?]] 
26 [[The answer to it]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>27 [[The Wounded Hussar]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>28 [[Allen's Return from the Wars]] 
29 [[The Rose of Allendale]] 
30 [[The Rose of Britain's Isle]] 
31 [[She wore a Wreath of Roses]] 
32 [[Ben Bolt]] 
33 [[Ben Bolt's Reply]] 
34 [[Tom Bowling]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>35 [[Tom Hillyard]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>36 [[Tom Tough]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>37 [[Will Watch]] 
38 [[Harry Hawser]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>39 [[Paul Jones]] 
40 [[John William Marchant]] 
41 [[Gibson, Wilson, and Johnson]] 
42 [[Gilderoy]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>43 [[Auld Robin Gray]] 
44 [[Answer to ditto]] 
45 [[Barney A vouring]] 
46 [[Joe the Marine]] 
47 [[John Lawrence]] 
48 [[Ditto second part]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>49 [[Larry O' Gaff]] 
50 [[Beautiful Kitty]] 
51 [[Kathleen Mavourneen]] 
52 [[Sarah had a little Lamb]] 
53 [[Helen Lorraine]] 
54 [[My Helen is the Fairest Flower]] 
55 [[Dear Charlotte when the Sun is Set]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>56 [[Alice Gray]] 
57 [[Fanny Gray]] 
58 [[Nelly Gray]] 
59 [[Mrs. Myrtle]] 
60 [[Grace Darling]] 
61 [[Birth of Crazy Jane]] 
62 [[Crazy Jane]] 
63 [[Death of Crazy Jane]] 
64 [[Jeannette and Jeannot]] 
65 [[The Answer]] 
66 [[Pretty Phœbe]] 
67 [[Pretty Susan, the Pride of Kildare]] 
68 [[Annie Laurie]] 
69 [[Bristol Town]] 
70 [[Gentle Annie]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>71 [[I am leaving Thee in sorrow, Annie]] 
72 [[Lost Rosabel]] 
73 [[Minnie]] 
74 [[Little Nell]] 
75 [[Mary of Argyle]] 
76 [[Mary Blane]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>77 [[Mary was a Beauty]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>78 [[Sally, Sally one Day]] 
79 [[Poor Uncle Tom]] 
80 [[Uncle Ned]] 
81 [[Green Mossy Banks of the Lee]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>82 [[Ye Banks and Braes of Bonny Doon]] 
83 [[Ye Banks of Bonny Winding Tyne]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>84 [[Banks of the Dee]] 
85 [[Woodman Spare that Tree]] 
86 [[Butcher Spare that Lamb]] 
87 [[My good old Father's Mill]] 
88 [[My good Old Father's Farm]] 
89 [[The Old House at Home]] 
90 [[Home, Sweet Home]] 
91 [[The Rover]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>92 [[Banks of Sweet Dundee]] 
93 [[The Star of Glengarry]] 
94 [[The Maid of Llangollen]] 
95 [[We have Lived and Loved Together]] 
96 [[My Skiff is by the Shore]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>97 [[Adieu, my Native Land, Adieu]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>98 [[Old England, what are you Coming to?]] 
99 [[Britain's Revenge on the Death of Nelson]] 
100 [[Madam, do you know my Trade is War?]] 
101 [[How Sweet in the Woodland]] 
102 [[Oh no, I never mention Her]] 
103 [[The answer to it]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>104 [[In Essex there lived a rich Farmer]] 
105 [[Oh cease, awhile, ye Winds to blow]] 
106 [[The Answer to it]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>107 [[When I was Young and in my Prime]] 
108 [[Yarmouth is a Pretty Town]] 
109 [[It's of a Sailor now I write]] 
110 [[The Lass of Brighton Town]] 
111 [[Polly's Love, or the Cruel Ship's Carpenter]] 
112 [[Rosetta and the Plough Boy]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>113 [[The Old Man and his three Daughters]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>114 [[Flora, the Unkind Shepherdess]] 
115 [[Our Captain calls all Hands]] 
116 [[Isle of Beauty, fare Thee well]] 
117 [[Wealthy Farmer's Son]] 
118 [[The Constant Farmer's Son]] 
119 [[I will be a Gipsy]] 
120 [[The Gipsy's Tent]] 
121 [[Fitzgerald's Tent]] 
122 [[Jervis' Tent]] 
123 [[The Irish Emigrant]] 
124 [[The Answer to it]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>125 [[Lango Lee]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>126 [[Exile of Erin]] 
127 [[Leather Breeches]] 
128 [[Miser Grimes]] 
129 [[One Night I went to meet Her]] 
130 [[Old Gray Mare]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>131 [[Mark and John Peteroe]] 
132 [[Old Dog Tray]] 
133 [[Poor Black Bess]] 
134 [[Bonny Black Bess]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>135 [[Bonny Moon]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>136 [[The Storm]] 
137 [[The Minute Gun at Sea]] 
138 [[The Female Smuggler]] 
139 [[Highland Mary]] 
140 [[My Highland Home]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>141 [['Ere around the Huge Oak]] 
142 [[The Oak Table]] 
143 [[A Song to the Oak]] 
144 [[The Effects of Love]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>145 [[The Green Hills of Tyrol]] 
146 [[Cabbage Green]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>147 [[Belfast Mountains]] 
148 [[A Week's Matrimony]] 
149 [[Umbrella Courtship]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>150 [[The Croppy Boy]] 
151 [[The Sailor's Return]] 
152 [[The Lovers' Parting]] 
153 [[New York Street]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>154 [[Plato's Advice]] 
155 [[Dulce Domum]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>156 [[Through Moorfields]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>157 [[On Gosport Beach]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>158 [[The Gallant Poachers]] 
159 [[The Gallant Sailor]] 
160 [[Creeping Jane]] 
161 [[Death and the Lady]] 
162 [[The Scarlet Flower]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>163 [[The Post Captain]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>164 [[The Cabin Boy]] 
165 [[Gooseberry Wine]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>166 [[Travel the Country Round]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>167 [[The Age of Man]] 
168 [[The Sailor Boy's Good-bye]] 
169 [[Angel's Whisper]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>170 [[Spare a Halfpenny]] 
171 [[Some love to Roam]] 
172 [[The Blackbird]] 
173 [[The Woodpecker]] 
174 [[Our Bessie was a Sailor's Bride]] 
175 [[As I was Walking one Morning by Chance]] 
176 [[The Salt Sea]] 
177 [[The Pitcher]] 
178 [[The Haymakers]] 
179 [[The Marble Halls]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>180 [[The Sheffield Apprentice]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>181 [[The London Apprentice]] 
182 [[The Fairy Tempter]] 
183 [[After Roving Many Years]] 
184 [[All's Well]] 
185 [[Annie Lisle]] 
186 [[The Plough Boy]] 
187 [[Night and Morn]] 
188 [[O Lovely Night]] 
189 [[The Little Town Boy]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>190 [[Robin Hood and the Pedlar]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>191 [[Past Ten o'clock]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>192 [[The Cobbler]] 
193 [[The Kiss dear Maid]] 
194 [[The Irish Girl's Lament]] 
195 [[The Boyhood Days]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>196 [[The Galley Slave]] 
197 [[Rosemary Lane]] 
198 [[In a Cottage near a Wood]] 
199 [[You Combers All]] 
200 [[The Young Jockey]] 
201 [[Little Cupid]] 
202 [[The last Rose of Summer]] 
203 [[Four and Nine]] 
204 [[The Tarry Sailor]] 
205 [[The Bridal Ring]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>206 [[Banstead Down]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>207 [[The Pilot]] 
208 [[The Mariner's Grave]] 
209 [[I have journeyed over many Lands]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>210 [[Our Trade and Commerce]] 
211 [[The Miller's three Sons]] 
212 [[The Cavalier]] 
213 [[Salisbury Plain]] 
214 [[To all you Ladies now on Land]] 
215 [[Nature's gay Days]] 
216 [[The Demon of the Seas]] 
217 [[He is gone to the Roaring Waves]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>218 [[The Wild Rover]] 
219 [[Vilikins and his Dinah]] 
220 [[The Troubadour]] 
221 [[Shells of the Ocean]] 
222 [[Oh, come to the Ingleside]] 
223 [[Give me but a Cot in the Valley I love]] 
224 [[Cherry Cheek Polly for Me]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>225 [[When the Morn stands on Tiptoe]] 
226 [[The Cot where I was born]] 
227 [[The Orphan Beggar Boy]] 
228 [[Red, White, and Blue]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>229 [[The Cottager's Daughter]] 
230 [[Old Folks at Home]] 
231 [[The Convict's Lamentation]] 
232 [[Butter, Cheese, and all]] 
233 [[With all Thy Faults I love Thee still]] 
234 [[Wait for the Waggon]] 
235 [[Oh Willie, we have missed you]] 
236 [[Rouse! Brother, Rouse! ]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>237 [[Partant Pour la Syrie]] 
238 [[I'll hang my Harp on a Willow Tree]] 
239 [[The Heart and Head]] 
240 [[The Basket of Eggs]] 
241 [[Will you love Me then as now? ]] 
242 [[Dearest, then, I'll love Thee now]] 
243 [[Old Towler]] 
244 [[When other Lips]] 
245 [[Pretty Wench]] 
246 [[No Mistake in that]] 
247 [[The Beggar Girl]] 
248 [[My gentle Mother dear]] 
249 [[Isle of France]] 
250 [[The Little Bird]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>251 [[The American Stranger]] 
252 [[Quite Politely]] 
253 [[Tally Ho]] 
254 [[The Light of other Days]] 
255 [[The Bay of Biscay]] 
256 [[The Lass O'Gowry]] 
257 [[Good News from Home]] 
258 [[Beautiful Star]] 
259 [[The Queen's Letter]] 
260 [[Nothing More]] 
261 [[Tempest of the Heart]] 
262 [[The Rent Days]] 
263 [[Abroad as I was Walking]] 
264 [[Down in those Meadows]] 
265 [[A Voice from the West]] 
266 [[To the West]] 
267 [[Ploughman turned Sailor]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>268 [[Old Carrion Crow]] 
269 [[The Sailor's Tear]] 
270 [[Why did She leave Him]] 
271 [[Prairie Child]] 
272 [[Goodbye, Sweetheart]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>273 [[Peggy Ban]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>274 [[Duke of Marlborough]] 
275 [[The Young Recruit]] 
276 [[The Mistletoe Bough]] 
277 [[The Song of the Brave]] 
278 [[All among the Barley]] 
279 [[The sons of Fingal]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>280 [[The Blue Bells of Scotland]] 
281 [[The Happy Land]] 
282 [[The poor Fisherman's Boy]] 
283 [[So early in the Morning]] 
284 [[Hard Times come again no more]] 
285 [[Farewell to the Mountains]] 
286 [[Thou art gone from my Gaze]] 
287 [[The Banks of the Blue Moselle]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>288 [[The Months of the Year]] 
289 [[The Blighted Flower]] 
290 [[The Officer's Funeral]] 
291 [[The Sailor's Grave]] 
292 [[Cheer, Boys, Cheer]] 
293 [[Ever of Thee]] 
294 [[Kitty Terrall]] 
295 [[Popping the Question]] 
296 [[Aunt Sally]] 
297 [[Jemima Brown]] 
298 [[Maid of Judah]] 
299 [[The Gipsy Girl]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>300 [[Not a Drum was heard]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>301 [[My old friend John]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>302 [[Benbow]] 
303 [[Down in the Cornfields]] 
304 [[Meet Me by Moonlight alone]] 
305 [[The Cottage by the Sea]] 
306 [[Your lot is far above Me|You(r) lot is far above Me]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>307 [[A Rose Tree in full Bearing]] 
308 [[The Merry Mountain Horn]] 
309 [[Fair Lily of the Vale]] 
310 [[Kathleen O'Moore]] 
311 [[Where there's a Will there's a Way]] 
312 [[Oh Bitter and Cold was Night]] 
313 [[Sweet Spirit, Hear mymy Prayer]] 
314 [[Oh would I were a Bird]] 
315 [[The Hazel Dell]] 
316 [[Happy as a King]] 
317 [[Father, dear Father, come Home with Me now]] 
318 [[Beautiful Isle of the Sea]] 
319 [[Maid of Erin's Isle]] 
320 [[The Gleaner]] 
321 [[The Bride's Farewell]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>322 [[Harry Bluff]] 
323 [[The Sicilian Maid]] 
324 [[The Village-born Beauty]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>325 [[Jenny Jones]] 
326 [[Fifty years ago]] 
327 [[Nothing shall she Draw, but Water from the Well]] 
328 [[The Glasses sparkled on the Board]] 
329 [[Norah, sweet Norah]] 
330 [[My Friend and Pitcher]] 
331 [[The Minstrel Boy]] 
332 [[The Thorn]] 
333 [[You Lads and Lasses gay]] 
334 [[The Ivy Cottage]] 
335 [[Water Cresses]] 
336 [[Jimmy and Jenny]] 
337 [[Banks of Sweet Primroses]] 
338 [[Canadian Boat Song]] 
339 [[False One, I love Thee still]] 
340 [[William and Phyllis]] 
341 [[The Grecian Bend]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>342 [[Billy and Sally]] 
343 [[After tasting many Beers]] 
344 [[I'll meet Thee at the Lane]] 
345 [[Wait for the Turn of the Tide]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>346 [[The Heart that can feel for Another]] 
347 [[The Captain and His Whiskers]] 
348 [[Just before the Battle, Mother]] 
349 [[Just after the Battle, Mother]] 
350 [[I am come across the Seas]] 
351 [[The Female Sailor]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>352 [[Goddess Diana]] 
353 [[Green Bushes]] 
354 [[Bold Collins]] 
354 [[Sir Roger Tichbourne]] 
355 [[O leave not your Kathleen]] 
357 [[Come back to Erin]] 
358 [[The Gipsy's Warning]] 
359 [[The Answer to Ditto]] 
360 [[The Maiden's Reply]] 
361 [[The Merry Bells of England]] 
362 [[Far, Far Away]] 
363 [[Broker, spare that Bed]] 
364 [[Kitty Wells]] 
365 [[Sunshine follows Rain]] 
366 [[Write Me a Letter from Home]] 
367 [[Dublin Bay]] 
368 [[Belle Mahone]] 
369 [[Molly Darling]] 
370 [[Annie dear, I am called away]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>371 [[In the Downhill of Life]] 
372 [[When first in this Country a Stranger I came]] 
373 [[As I was going to Birmingham Fair]] 
374 [[Nancy Lee]] 
375 [[Silver Threads Among the Gold]] 
376 [[The Rat-catcher's Daughter]] 
377 [[Ring the Bell, Watchman]] 
378 [[Barrel of Beer]] 
379 [[Go and leave Me if you wish]] 
380 [[Put me in my Little Bed]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>381 [[Auld Lang Syne]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>382 [[As I wandered by the Brookside]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>383 [[Make Little Mary his Bride]] 
384 [[It was just against the Gate]] 
385 [[Away with Melancholy]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>386 [[Black Eyed Susan]] 
387 [[Good Old Jeff]] 
388 [[The Negro Boy]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>389 [[With my Pot in one Hand]] 
390 [[Nature's Holiday]] 
391 [[Won't you buy my pretty Flowers]] 
392 [[That dear old Stile]] 
393 [[The Crocodile]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>394 [[The American has Stole my true Love away]] 
395 [[Begone Dull Care]] 
396 [[The Harp that once through Tara's Hall]] 
397 [[An Old Man came Courting Me]] 
<nowiki>*</nowiki>398 [[The Holy Friar]] 
399 [[Bread and Cheese and Kisses]] 
400 [[There came to Enslave us a Landlord of Erin]] 
401 [[The Garden Gate]] 
402 [[Joan and the Miller]] 
403 [[The Primrose Lass]] 
404 [[Roger and Flora]] 
405 [[The Devil He came to an Old Man at the Plough]] 
406 [[The Brighton Chain Pier]] 
407 [[The Second part ditto]] 
408 [[Bonny Bunch of Roses]] 
409 [[The North Fleet Weighed Anchor]] 
410 [[The 18th June]] 
411 [[Duke William]] 
412 [[We wassailing Lads are Come]] 
413 [[As I was walking one morning in May]] 
414 [[Jerry Brown and the Black Jug]] 
415 [[The Tavern]] 
416 [[The Donkey]] 
417 [[John Cladpole's Trip to London]] 
418 [[Tom Cladpole's Trip to America]] 
419 [[St. Nicholas' Church]] 
420 [[Turnips are Round]] 

<nowiki>*</nowiki> Titles marked with an asterisk are those Henry learned from his father, of which 'Travel the Country Round' was the first.

== Bibliography ==

Henry Burstow. Reminiscences of Horsham, ed. A. E. Green and T. Wales (1975)

Henry Burstow. Reminiscences of Horsham: being Recollections of Henry Burstow The Celebrated Bellringer & Songsinger (1911) [http://folk-network.com/miscellany/burstow/burstow.html]

Andrew R. Turner, ‘Burstow, Henry (1826–1916)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/57089]

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Song

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MalcolmDouglas: /* Traditional Singers */

''Category Editor: Dr Vic Gammon''

There are many thousands of songs. There are many song collections and many versions of the same song. Where to start looking? That's the problem.

Note. Our intention is not to restrict this initiative to English Song, but to use the present headings as a starting point to view whatever develops from wherever it comes.

==Indexes==

* The [[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]] [http://library.efdss.org online index] including
** [[Cecil Sharp]]
** [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]
** [[Maud Karpeles]]
** [[Lucy Broadwood]]
** [[H.E.D. Hammond]]
** [[Francis Collinson]]
** [[George Gardiner]]
** [[Percy Grainger]]

The site also gives you access to the [http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/textpage.cgi?file=aboutRoud&access=off Roud Index], compiled by Steve Roud.

'The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of 143,000+ references to songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.'

==Traditional Singers==

'''England:'''
* [[Jack Arnoll]]
* [[Bob Blake]]
* [[Charlie Bridger]]
* [[Henry Burstow]]
* [[The Copper Family]]
* [[Debbie & Pennie Davis]]
* [[Bill Dore]]
* [[Johnny Doughty]]
* [[Ray Driscoll]]
* [[George Dunn]]
* [[George Fradley]]
* [[Alice Francombe]]
* [[Jacquey Gabriel]]
* [[Jack Goodban]]
* [[Archer Goode]]
* [[Jim 'Brick' Harber]]
* [[Bob Hart]]
* [[Mary Ann Haynes]]
* [[Ivor Hill]]
* [[Frank Hinchliffe]]
* [[Harry Holman]]
* [[Joe Jones]]
* [[Lena Jones]]
* [[Fred Jordan]]
* [[George 'Pop' Maynard]]
* [[Tom Newman]]
* [[Freda Palmer]]
* [[Walter Pardon]]
* [[Alice Penfold]]
* [[Cyril Philips]]
* [[Cyril Poacher]]
* [[Sarah Porter]]
* [[Bill Porter]]
* [[Ted & Bet Porter]]
* [[Denny Smith]]
* [[Derby Smith]]
* [[Biggun Smith]]
* [[Wisdom Smith]]
* [[Wiggy Smith]]
* [[Jasper Smith]]
* [[Minty Smith]]
* [[Levi Smith]]
* [[George Spicer]]
* [[George Townshend]]
* [[Harry Upton]]
* [[Bill Whiting]]
* [[Chris Willett]]
* [[Jim Wilson]]

'''Scotland:'''

* [[Willie Beattie]]
* [[Daisy Chapman]]
* [[Lizzie Higgins]]
* [[Jimmy McBeath]]
* [[Ellen Mitchell]]
* [[Joe Rae]]

'''Ireland:'''
* [[Vincie Boyle]]
* [[Bill Bryan]]
* [[Packie Manus Byrne]]
* [[Mary Cash]]
* [[Andy Cash]]
* [[Bill Cassidy]]
* [[Nora Cleary]]
* [[Mary Anne Connelly]]
* [['Rich' Johnny Connors]]
* [['Pops' Johnny Connors]]
* [[Josie Connors]]
* [[Ollie Conway]]
* [[Eddie Coyle]]
* [[Peggy Delaney]]
* [[Mary Delaney]]
* [[Michael 'Straighty' Flanagan]]
* [[Austin Flanagan]]
* [[Patsy Flynn]]
* [[James Halpin]]
* [[Paddy Halpin]]
* [[Kitty Hayes]]
* [[Joe Heaney (Seosamh Ó hÉanaí)]]
* [[Martin Howley]]
* [[Mikey Kelleher]]
* [[Tom Lenihan]]
* [[Martin Long]]
* [[Nonie Lynch]]
* [[Pat MacNamara]]
* [[Big John Maguire]]
* [[Jamesie McCarthy]]
* [[Mikeen McCarthy]]
* [[Red Mick McDermott]]
* [[James McDermott]]
* [[Philip McDermott]]
* [[Freddy McKay]]
* [[Packie McKeaney]]
* [[Kevin Mitchell]]
* [[Maggie Murphy]]
* [[Martin Reidy]]
* [[Paddy Reilly]]
* [[Tom Tinneny]]
'''America:'''

* [[Garrett Arwood]]
* [[Norah Arwood]]
* [[Gracie Baker]]
* [[Lavonne Baker]]
* [[Nova Baker]]
* [[Earl Barnes]]
* [[Ethel Birchfield]]
* [[Hubert Bowling]]
* [[Paul Brown]]
* [[Inez Chandler]]
* [[Viola Cole]]
* [[Calvin Cole]]
* [[Sam Connor]]
* [[Carol Foster]]
* [[Annadeene Fraley]]
* [[Danielle Fraley]]
* [[Jim Garland]]
* [[Michael Garvin]]
* [[Francis Gillum]]
* [[Alva Greene]]
* [[Lulabelle Greene]]
* [[Sarah Gunning]]
* [[George Hawkins]]
* [[Stanley Hicks]]
* [[Roscoe Holcomb]]
* [[Buell Kazee]]
* [[Abe Keibler]]
* [[Stella Kimble]]
* [[Mary Lozier]]
* [[Eunice Yeatts MacAlexander]]
* [[Wash Nelson]]
* [[Dellie Norton]]
* [[Morris Norton]]
* [[Hattie Presnell]]
* [[Emma Pruitt]]
* [[Douston Ramsey]]
* [[Evelyn Ramsey]]
* [[Pearl Richardson]]
* [[Perry Riley]]
* [[Dixon Sisters, The]]
* [[Hobert Stallard]]
* [[Dan Tate]]
* [[Mildred Tucker]]
* [[Elsie Vanover]]
* [[Doug Wallin]]
* [[Berzilla Wallin]]
* [[Doug Wallin]]
* [[Cas Wallin]]
* [[Vergie Wallin]]
* [[Dent Wimmer]]
* [[Mollie Workman]]
* [[Nimrod Workman]]
* [[Gene York]]
* [[Margie York]]

[[Singers by County]]

==Books==

'''Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry''' is described in Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliques_of_Ancient_English_Poetry See]

The contents might well be catalogued here but in the meantime here's one song to be going on with - [[The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington]]

'''Old English Popular Music''' by William Chappell ''Ed. H.E.Wooldridge'' ''Additions by Frank Kidson''

==Recordings==
===Commercially Available Recordings===
''Currently available or deleted''

* [[Kyloe Records]]
* [[Leader Records]]
* [[Musical Traditions Records]]
* [[Topic Records]]
* [[Veteran]]
* [[Wildgoose Records]]

==Performance==
''section editor Chris Coe''

This is a tricky section to think of including. One doesn't always associate folk song and 'performance' but some of the techniques applied by the traditional singers can bear scrutiny, especially by those who want to sing the same sort of songs.

The intimate fireside delivery of [[Walter Pardon]].......

[[Lizzie Higgins]] taking a deep breath, expanding to be a 'giant' and setting forth..........

[[Johnny Doughty]] turning his cap sideways and singing the [[Herring's Head]].....

And any one who has seen [[Jock Duncan]] perform the [[Two Sisters]] will have a vivid understanding of song delivery with gestures....

Watch this space.

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 22:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

==English Songs==

[http://www.efdss.org/songbib3.pdf English Folk Song Bibliography: An Introductory Bibliography Based on the Holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Third Edition, edited by David Atkinson]

Song

2007-03-25T00:49:25Z

MalcolmDouglas: links added to Henry Burstow and Copper Family pages

''Category Editor: Dr Vic Gammon''

There are many thousands of songs. There are many song collections and many versions of the same song. Where to start looking? That's the problem.

Note. Our intention is not to restrict this initiative to English Song, but to use the present headings as a starting point to view whatever develops from wherever it comes.

==Indexes==

* The [[Vaughan Williams Memorial Library]] [http://library.efdss.org online index] including
** [[Cecil Sharp]]
** [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]
** [[Maud Karpeles]]
** [[Lucy Broadwood]]
** [[H.E.D. Hammond]]
** [[Francis Collinson]]
** [[George Gardiner]]
** [[Percy Grainger]]

The site also gives you access to the [http://library.efdss.org/cgi-bin/textpage.cgi?file=aboutRoud&access=off Roud Index], compiled by Steve Roud.

'The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of 143,000+ references to songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world.'

==Traditional Singers==

'''England:'''
* [[Jack Arnoll]]
* [[Bob Blake]]
* [[Charlie Bridger]]
* [[Henry Burstow]]
* [[The_Copper_Family]]
* [[Debbie & Pennie Davis]]
* [[Bill Dore]]
* [[Johnny Doughty]]
* [[Ray Driscoll]]
* [[George Dunn]]
* [[George Fradley]]
* [[Alice Francombe]]
* [[Jacquey Gabriel]]
* [[Jack Goodban]]
* [[Archer Goode]]
* [[Jim 'Brick' Harber]]
* [[Bob Hart]]
* [[Mary Ann Haynes]]
* [[Ivor Hill]]
* [[Frank Hinchliffe]]
* [[Harry Holman]]
* [[Joe Jones]]
* [[Lena Jones]]
* [[Fred Jordan]]
* [[George 'Pop' Maynard]]
* [[Tom Newman]]
* [[Freda Palmer]]
* [[Walter Pardon]]
* [[Alice Penfold]]
* [[Cyril Philips]]
* [[Cyril Poacher]]
* [[Sarah Porter]]
* [[Bill Porter]]
* [[Ted & Bet Porter]]
* [[Denny Smith]]
* [[Derby Smith]]
* [[Biggun Smith]]
* [[Wisdom Smith]]
* [[Wiggy Smith]]
* [[Jasper Smith]]
* [[Minty Smith]]
* [[Levi Smith]]
* [[George Spicer]]
* [[George Townshend]]
* [[Harry Upton]]
* [[Bill Whiting]]
* [[Chris Willett]]
* [[Jim Wilson]]

'''Scotland:'''

* [[Willie Beattie]]
* [[Daisy Chapman]]
* [[Lizzie Higgins]]
* [[Jimmy McBeath]]
* [[Ellen Mitchell]]
* [[Joe Rae]]

'''Ireland:'''
* [[Vincie Boyle]]
* [[Bill Bryan]]
* [[Packie Manus Byrne]]
* [[Mary Cash]]
* [[Andy Cash]]
* [[Bill Cassidy]]
* [[Nora Cleary]]
* [[Mary Anne Connelly]]
* [['Rich' Johnny Connors]]
* [['Pops' Johnny Connors]]
* [[Josie Connors]]
* [[Ollie Conway]]
* [[Eddie Coyle]]
* [[Peggy Delaney]]
* [[Mary Delaney]]
* [[Michael 'Straighty' Flanagan]]
* [[Austin Flanagan]]
* [[Patsy Flynn]]
* [[James Halpin]]
* [[Paddy Halpin]]
* [[Kitty Hayes]]
* [[Joe Heaney (Seosamh Ó hÉanaí)]]
* [[Martin Howley]]
* [[Mikey Kelleher]]
* [[Tom Lenihan]]
* [[Martin Long]]
* [[Nonie Lynch]]
* [[Pat MacNamara]]
* [[Big John Maguire]]
* [[Jamesie McCarthy]]
* [[Mikeen McCarthy]]
* [[Red Mick McDermott]]
* [[James McDermott]]
* [[Philip McDermott]]
* [[Freddy McKay]]
* [[Packie McKeaney]]
* [[Kevin Mitchell]]
* [[Maggie Murphy]]
* [[Martin Reidy]]
* [[Paddy Reilly]]
* [[Tom Tinneny]]
'''America:'''

* [[Garrett Arwood]]
* [[Norah Arwood]]
* [[Gracie Baker]]
* [[Lavonne Baker]]
* [[Nova Baker]]
* [[Earl Barnes]]
* [[Ethel Birchfield]]
* [[Hubert Bowling]]
* [[Paul Brown]]
* [[Inez Chandler]]
* [[Viola Cole]]
* [[Calvin Cole]]
* [[Sam Connor]]
* [[Carol Foster]]
* [[Annadeene Fraley]]
* [[Danielle Fraley]]
* [[Jim Garland]]
* [[Michael Garvin]]
* [[Francis Gillum]]
* [[Alva Greene]]
* [[Lulabelle Greene]]
* [[Sarah Gunning]]
* [[George Hawkins]]
* [[Stanley Hicks]]
* [[Roscoe Holcomb]]
* [[Buell Kazee]]
* [[Abe Keibler]]
* [[Stella Kimble]]
* [[Mary Lozier]]
* [[Eunice Yeatts MacAlexander]]
* [[Wash Nelson]]
* [[Dellie Norton]]
* [[Morris Norton]]
* [[Hattie Presnell]]
* [[Emma Pruitt]]
* [[Douston Ramsey]]
* [[Evelyn Ramsey]]
* [[Pearl Richardson]]
* [[Perry Riley]]
* [[Dixon Sisters, The]]
* [[Hobert Stallard]]
* [[Dan Tate]]
* [[Mildred Tucker]]
* [[Elsie Vanover]]
* [[Doug Wallin]]
* [[Berzilla Wallin]]
* [[Doug Wallin]]
* [[Cas Wallin]]
* [[Vergie Wallin]]
* [[Dent Wimmer]]
* [[Mollie Workman]]
* [[Nimrod Workman]]
* [[Gene York]]
* [[Margie York]]

[[Singers by County]]

==Books==

'''Percy's Reliques of Ancient Poetry''' is described in Wikipedia [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliques_of_Ancient_English_Poetry See]

The contents might well be catalogued here but in the meantime here's one song to be going on with - [[The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington]]

'''Old English Popular Music''' by William Chappell ''Ed. H.E.Wooldridge'' ''Additions by Frank Kidson''

==Recordings==
===Commercially Available Recordings===
''Currently available or deleted''

* [[Kyloe Records]]
* [[Leader Records]]
* [[Musical Traditions Records]]
* [[Topic Records]]
* [[Veteran]]
* [[Wildgoose Records]]

==Performance==
''section editor Chris Coe''

This is a tricky section to think of including. One doesn't always associate folk song and 'performance' but some of the techniques applied by the traditional singers can bear scrutiny, especially by those who want to sing the same sort of songs.

The intimate fireside delivery of [[Walter Pardon]].......

[[Lizzie Higgins]] taking a deep breath, expanding to be a 'giant' and setting forth..........

[[Johnny Doughty]] turning his cap sideways and singing the [[Herring's Head]].....

And any one who has seen [[Jock Duncan]] perform the [[Two Sisters]] will have a vivid understanding of song delivery with gestures....

Watch this space.

--[[User:JohnnyAdams|JohnnyAdams]] 22:46, 14 March 2007 (UTC)

==English Songs==

[http://www.efdss.org/songbib3.pdf English Folk Song Bibliography: An Introductory Bibliography Based on the Holdings of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, Third Edition, edited by David Atkinson]

Henry Burstow

2007-03-17T05:10:19Z

MalcolmDouglas: 'Reminiscences' link corrected

Henry Burstow

2007-03-17T04:53:20Z

MalcolmDouglas: Added: Henry Burstow's epitaph, written by himself. (Journal of the Folk-Song Society, V (20) 1916, 320.

The Copper Family

2007-03-14T23:15:40Z

MalcolmDouglas: bibliographical refs added

[[Bob Copper]]

[[James Copper|James "Brasser" Copper]]

[[Jill Copper]]

[[John Copper]]

[[Ron Copper]]

[[Jon Dudley]]

== Bibliography ==
Copper Family Songbook: A Living Tradition, Coppersongs. ISBN: 0 9526240 0 1 (1995)

Bob Copper. A Song for Every Season: 100 Years in the Life of a Sussex Farming Family. Heinemann, 1971. ISBN: 043414455X

Bob Copper. A Song for Every Season: 100 Years in the Life of a Sussex Farming Family. Coppersongs, 1997. ISBN: 095262401X

Kate Lee. 'Some experiences of a Folk-Song Collector' in Journal of the Folk-Song Society. London: FSS, vol I no 1, 1899, 7-25.

A L Lloyd. 'The Singing Style of the Copper Family' in Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. London: EFDSS, vol VII no 3, 1954, 145-151.

== Discography ==
A Song for Every Season. 4-LP box set, Leader LEAB 404, 1971.

Come Write Me Down: Early Recordings of the Copper Family. CD, Topic TSCD534, 2001.

Coppersongs: A Living Tradition. LP, EFDSS VWML004 (Coppersongs 1), 1987.

Coppersongs 2. CD, Coppersongs, 1995.

Coppersongs 3: The Legacy Continues. CD, Coppersongs.

== Links ==
[http://www.thecopperfamily.com/ Copper family website]

[http://www.thecopperfamily.com/songs/coppersongs/index.html Songs sung by the Copper Family]

[http://www.frootsmag.com/content/features/old-coppers/ Family Business: A 1984 Conversation With Bob & John Copper (reprinted from The Southern Rag Issue 20, April 1984)]

[[Category:Singer]][[Category:Sussex]]

The Copper Family

2007-03-14T23:13:41Z

MalcolmDouglas: /* Discography */

[[Bob Copper]]

[[James Copper|James "Brasser" Copper]]

[[Jill Copper]]

[[John Copper]]

[[Ron Copper]]

[[Jon Dudley]]

== Bibliography ==
Copper Family Songbook: A Living Tradition, Coppersongs. ISBN: 0 9526240 0 1 (1995)

Bob Copper. A Song for Every Season: 100 Years in the Life of a Sussex Farming Family. Heinemann, 1971. ISBN: 043414455X

Bob Copper. A Song for Every Season: 100 Years in the Life of a Sussex Farming Family. Coppersongs, 1997. ISBN: 095262401X

== Discography ==
A Song for Every Season. 4-LP box set, Leader LEAB 404, 1971.

Come Write Me Down: Early Recordings of the Copper Family. CD, Topic TSCD534, 2001.

Coppersongs: A Living Tradition. LP, EFDSS VWML004 (Coppersongs 1), 1987.

Coppersongs 2. CD, Coppersongs, 1995.

Coppersongs 3: The Legacy Continues. CD, Coppersongs.

== Links ==
[http://www.thecopperfamily.com/ Copper family website]

[http://www.thecopperfamily.com/songs/coppersongs/index.html Songs sung by the Copper Family]

[http://www.frootsmag.com/content/features/old-coppers/ Family Business: A 1984 Conversation With Bob & John Copper (reprinted from The Southern Rag Issue 20, April 1984)]

[[Category:Singer]][[Category:Sussex]]

The Copper Family

2007-03-14T14:56:08Z

MalcolmDouglas: Two Journal article references added.

[[Bob Copper]]

[[James Copper|James "Brasser" Copper]]

[[Jill Copper]]

[[John Copper]]

[[Ron Copper]]

[[Jon Dudley]]

== Bibliography ==
Copper Family Songbook: A Living Tradition, Coppersongs. ISBN: 0 9526240 0 1 (1995)

Bob Copper. A Song for Every Season: 100 Years in the Life of a Sussex Farming Family. Heinemann, 1971. ISBN: 043414455X

Bob Copper. A Song for Every Season: 100 Years in the Life of a Sussex Farming Family. Coppersongs, 1997. ISBN: 095262401X

== Discography ==
A Song for Every Season. 4-LP box set, Leader LEAB 404, 1971.

Come Write Me Down: Early Recordings of the Copper Family. CD, Topic TSCD534, 2001.

Coppersongs: A Living Tradition. LP, EFDSS VWML004 (Coppersongs 1), 1987.

Coppersongs 2. CD, Coppersongs, 1995.

Coppersongs 3: The Legacy Continues. CD, Coppersongs.

Kate Lee. 'Some experiences of a Folk-Song Collector' in Journal of the Folk-Song Society. London: FSS, vol I no 1, 1899, 7-25.

A L Lloyd. 'The Singing Style of the Copper Family' in Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. London: EFDSS, vol VII no 3, 1954, 145-151.

== Links ==
[http://www.thecopperfamily.com/ Copper family website]

[http://www.thecopperfamily.com/songs/coppersongs/index.html Songs sung by the Copper Family]

[http://www.frootsmag.com/content/features/old-coppers/ Family Business: A 1984 Conversation With Bob & John Copper (reprinted from The Southern Rag Issue 20, April 1984)]

Henry Burstow

2007-03-14T14:29:23Z

MalcolmDouglas: Photograph of Henry Burstow added (frontispiece, Reminiscences of Horsham, cropped.

File:Henry burstow cropped.jpg

2007-03-13T23:09:12Z

MalcolmDouglas: Henry Burstow: frontispiece, Reminiscences of Horsham (cropped)

Henry Burstow: frontispiece, Reminiscences of Horsham (cropped)

Song

2007-03-09T03:45:21Z

MalcolmDouglas: /* Commercially Available Recordings */