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• Frank Purslow
  ...k music, composed and compiled collections of songs, taught enthusiasts to play musical instruments and was often seen at the Bodleian Library in Oxford re :He was such an authority that the English Folk Dance and Song Society was preparing to award him the Gold Badge, its highe
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• User:Constantsqueezer
  ...dh band, street theatre group, acoustic blues trio, music and vocals). I play a variety of instruments, including anglo concertina, melodeons, tenor banj
  916 bytes (148 words) - 03:41, 21 February 2021
• Jumbo Brightwell
  ...World-and-traditional-music/Keith-Summers-Collection Keith Summers English Folk Music Collection, British Library] * [[Sing, Say and Play|Sing, Say and Play: Traditional Songs & Music From Suffolk]], [[Topic Records]], 12TS375
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• Cecil Sharp's Note 40 (1916)
  ...christ, in notes appended to the version published in the ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', consider that the words have been affected by those of a �
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• Cecil Sharp
  '''Cecil James Sharp''', collector of English folk-songs and dances. *''English folk song, some conclusions'', London: Simpkin; Novello, 1907. First edition ava
  4 KB (647 words) - 23:14, 7 May 2022
• Mixolydian
  ...xamples of the 4 Main Musical Scales in Celtic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs | Samples and Examples of Modes and Scales]]''' ...es are G, A, B, C, D, E, F, G’, and you get this scale on a piano when you play upwards from G to G’ on the white keys. Again, note the distribution of t
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• Aeolian
  ...ic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs|Samples and Examples of Modes in Folk Songs]]''' ...es are A, B, C, D, E, F, G, A’, and you get this scale on a piano when you play upwards from A to A’ on the white keys. Note the distribution of the tone
  3 KB (454 words) - 10:24, 7 February 2021
• Ray Andrews
  ...ncertina, mouth organ, fiddle and phono fiddle.  Ray first learned to play the banjo with his father.  His mother was not known as a musician, bu ...ter a full day, starting early in the morning, he would go straight out to play until last orders had been called.
  3 KB (557 words) - 18:22, 17 February 2022
• Dorian
  ...ic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs|Samples and Examples of Modes in Folk Songs]]''' ...tes are D, E, F, G, A, B, C, D’ and you get this scale on a piano when you play upwards from D to D’ on the white keys. Note the distribution of the tone
  3 KB (469 words) - 10:25, 7 February 2021
• EDS Vol 42 No 1
  ...cance of a recently discovered "earlier" text of the famous Revesby Plough PLay ...off steam about the lack of respect for traditional customs shown by many folk 'enthusiasts'.
  1 KB (189 words) - 08:25, 26 June 2008
• Ambrose Cooper
  ...British Gypsy performers. He loves country music and he’s keen on English folk too. But unlike many others he sings about recent Gypsy experiences and set ...g with his son Ambrose, playing everything from guitar boogies and English folk, to Elvis. Ambrose senior plays the accordion, guitar and banjo expertly. H
  3 KB (608 words) - 09:37, 10 October 2023
• National
  == The English Folk Dance and Song Society == ...London and members all over the world, the EFDSS has an important part to play in passing on the traditions and culture of England to those who wish to ca
  5 KB (845 words) - 17:04, 12 November 2021
• Cecil Sharp's Note 78 (1916)
  ...m a manuscript in his possession and certainly of an earlier date than the play.” Chappell furthermore calls attention to the custom of singing old songs ...a certain air of reckless abandonment about them which seems to suggest a folk-origin, and they are, at any rate, far less obviously the work of a literar
  3 KB (457 words) - 22:06, 19 November 2018
• Cecil Sharp's Note 12 (1916)
  ...he Rev. S. Baring-Gould collected in Devonshire, is published in ''English Folk Songs for Schools''. I have collected only one other version, the first sta ...r part of the sixteenth century,” and he points out that it is quoted in a play, “The Two Noble Kinsmen,” written by “the Memorable Worthies, Mr. Joh
  2 KB (296 words) - 20:43, 19 October 2018
• Ralph Jordan
  ...the usual aim of becoming a rock guitarist, but then he encountered London folk clubs. ...own for his work as an accompanist,band member and arranger on the English folk scene, and he had an extensive musical background elsewhere which informed
  5 KB (913 words) - 04:33, 16 December 2014
• Princess Royal
  ...put the ''Princess Royal'' tune to the poem and included it in his musical play ''Lock and Key'' produced in London in 1796. Whatever the fate of the show, ...use the tune in a minor key, more or less as Walsh’s 1730 print, and five play the tune in major, and although we are familiar with the latter through its
  8 KB (1,421 words) - 19:03, 2 July 2007
• Hornpipes
  ...finitive article on the hornpipe was written by [[George Emmerson]] in the Folk Music Journal [http://fmj.efdss.org/contents/fmj/volumes_1to6/contents.htm# Many of the tunes we play now were named for the actor/dancers who performed them - Fisher, Durang, B
  3 KB (332 words) - 18:12, 21 March 2011
• Music
  Singers and Dancers are just as much musicians as people who play instruments. Folk tunes are very often divorced from their original setting and played for an
  10 KB (1,624 words) - 10:37, 30 July 2023
• Books, Articles, and Academic Studies - Music
  Bearman, C.J.; ''The English Folk Music Movement 1898-1914'' part of Doctoral Thesis. [https://core.ac.uk/dow ..., Georgina (2010). The Imagined Village: Culture, ideology and the English Folk Revival. London: No Masters Cooperative Limited. ISBN 978-0-9566227-0-9
  12 KB (1,752 words) - 15:07, 7 March 2024
• World Library of Folk and Primitive Music - Volume 1: England
  '''World Library of Folk and Primitive Music - Volume 1: England''' Originally released as The Columbia World Library of Folk and Primitive Music - Volume III: England
  4 KB (443 words) - 17:41, 30 December 2012

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