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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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
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• Scales and Musical Modes in Celtic, Anglo-American and English Folk Songs
  ...ow To Dissect, Interpret and Categorize Anglo-American, Celtic and English Folk Melodies]] ...is is complicated, however, because, in Celtic, Anglo-American and English folk song, tunes that present as authentic may have one or more notes that dip b
  43 KB (7,734 words) - 02:03, 10 February 2021
• George Spicer
  ...  During the 1950s he regularly took his son [[Ron Spicer]] along to play accordion while he did the singing. George Frampton ''"I don't know if this is actually a folk song" The Life and Music of George Spicer (1906-1981)''
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• Fred Whiting
  ...there on I went ahead like a house on fire and in those days I only had to play through a bit of music two or three times and I'd never want to see it agai ...barber from Debenham, he used to play violin. There was a chap who used to play a 'push-me-off-the-pavement', you know a slide trombone and there was Jack
  21 KB (4,296 words) - 22:23, 16 February 2022
• Joseph Taylor
  ...ksong section, offering a prize for “the best unpublished old Lincolnshire folk-song or plough-song” . The judge, Frank Kidson, awarded him the prize for ...the tune to “Brigg Fair” from him, which was subsequently published in the Folk Song Society Journal. Grainger returned to Brigg in September 1905 when he
  9 KB (1,510 words) - 15:28, 24 February 2021
• Francis Jekyll
  ...'; 'A brisk young sailor courted me'; and 'Tarry Trowsers'. Andrew King (''Folk Music Journal'', 2010, "Resources in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library" ...r jointly responsible for the collecting of fifty-seven songs,” as well as folk dances from County Limerick.'''5''' After Butterworth died on the Somme in
  15 KB (2,307 words) - 02:42, 10 February 2021
• Books published since about 1900 containing mainly tunes from the English repertoire
  ...by the Author; 1991; A Collection of 51 New Dance Tunes Suitable for Most Folk Instruments ...Franklin; London; Edwin Ashdown Ltd; n/d; Simple piano arrangements of 43 folk tunes
  40 KB (5,573 words) - 12:28, 18 October 2023
• List of historical tunebooks, some of which are available on the internet
  ...with a selection of English, Scottish and Irish popular and folk tunes to play on it, [http://www.campin.me.uk/Music/Brewer/index.html PDFs], [http://tril ...ee Extraordinary Collections, Early 18th century dance music for those who play publick; Pete Stewart; [http://www.hornpipemusic.co.uk/3xcolls.html Hornpip
  86 KB (12,369 words) - 11:32, 10 April 2024
• Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/1
  '''RVW2/1/20 T'Old Tup (part of play of Ker Valley [?])''' T:RVW2/1/20 T'Old Tup (part of play of Ker(?) Valley)<br>
  57 KB (12,006 words) - 23:48, 29 March 2022
• Tune Manuscripts List
  ...With ABC Transcriptions" indicates the ABC transcription will display and play next to the scanned facsimiles by following the vwml link. ...Dance & Song) refers to the magazine of the [http://www.efdss.org/ English Folk Dance & Song Society].
  46 KB (6,709 words) - 15:07, 7 March 2024
• Full English Transcription Programme: The Vaughan Williams Archive at the British Library, MS RVW2/1 Part 2
  W:of this same song, on p.22 of the Penguin Book of English Folk Songs (1959), RVW<br> ...er as his|life Oft|times they walked to-|geth- er How|they did sport * and|play How|they did kiss and|<br>
  74 KB (15,812 words) - 13:52, 20 April 2016

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