Search results

• 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)''
  4 KB (593 words) - 18:30, 9 May 2022
• 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  ...ksong section, offering a prize for “the best unpublished old Lincolnshire folk-song or plough-song” .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 (6,710 words) - 16:21, 17 May 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

View (previous 20 | next 20) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)