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...'s master folksinger (Obituary). Michael Grosvenor Myer, The Guardian, 3rd April 2004.] ...patriarch of the Copper Family (Obituary). Ken Hunt, The Independent, 1st April 2004]

'''Britannia Coco-nut Dancers''' of Bacup, [[Lancashire]]. ...ances, simply known as numbers 1 to 5, and two Nut Dances 'Thowd Cash' and the 'Figures'.

...ing as a painter he lived in Winchcombe for the rest of his life, the bulk of it in Gloucester Street, becoming Parish Clerk and Sexton. He was buried o ...e Wincomb morris dancers, Sharp only recorded two tunes from him, only one of which had Morris connections.

...eath of his father, Richard, and lived with his mother who is described in the 1841 census as a publican. ...ountry dance tunes of the early nineteenth century, a few songs and number of street tunes.

[[January]] [[February]] [[March]] [[April]] [[May]] [[June]] [[July]] [[August]] [[September]] [[October]] [[November ...ions and superstitions. The First day of May, or [[May Day]] sees a number of celebrations, some famous like [[Padstow Obby Oss|Padstow]] and others unkn

[[January]] [[February]] [[March]] [[April]] [[May]] [[June]] [[July]] [[August]] [[September]] [[October]] [[November ...Monday after Epiphany, the first day of the first week back at work after the Christmas holidays.

...had been given good leads by Eliza Wedgwood. John Cook died in the autumn of 1936. Sharp collected only one tune from Cook, the [[Rose Tree]], which was given number 2162 in Sharp's fair copy.

...ished family in Randwick, Gloucestershire. Cecil Sharp visited him on 9th April 19080 and noted three songs. ...ch the couple set up home in their native village and both went to work in the local woollen cloth factory.

...who lived most of her life in [[Birmingham]]. Born October 24th 1884, died April 1976 aged 91. ...least [[Roy Palmer]] produced further material, amounting to a repertoire of seventeen songs."''

...Moffat publish a variant of the first of Chappell's versions in Minstrelsy of England (p. 25) with an instructive note. See also Ashton's ''Real Sailor S ...02, at Port Royal, and was buried at Kingston. His portrait is, or was, in the Painted Hall, Greenwich, to which it was presented by George IV. Mr. Ashton

*[[Thresherman, The|The Thresherman]] ...ather of [[Charles Barling]], from whom Cecil Sharp would collect a couple of songs in 1908. Thus Charles and Harry were cousins.

#I am a boatman by my trade, <br>And a waterman also<br>Through keeping of such company<br>I brought myself to woe.<br> ...at length to Newgate I got brought,<br>Bound down in iron strong,<br>With the rattling chains all round my legs, <br>She longed to hear them on.<br>

...was deceased”) where he died on 22 January 1919. We have found no record of his burial. ...but William Henry became a cattleman. Both, however, continued to work on the land.

'''Cecil James Sharp''', collector of English folk-songs and dances. *''English folk song, some conclusions'', London: Simpkin; Novello, 1907. First edition available online in various formats here [http://www.archive.org/de

...o. Henry Allen died just over a year after Sharp’s visit, towards the end of 1910. ...isingly, they did not. However, one of the other musicians who played for the Ruardean Morris dancers was [[Tite Smith]], from whom [[Stephen Baldwin]] l

...ral the tune is indeed A Aeolian; but if they are presumed to be sharpened the tune is A Dorian. T:34 The Sprig of Thyme<br>

redirect from [[The Copper Family]] ...England]], the nucleus of the family now lives in the neighbouring village of Peacehaven.

...great deal of contextual detail, including biographical information about the major singers; Joseph Taylor, George Gouldthorpe and George Wray himself. ...ition at Barton, at the age of fifty-four; performing to the accompaniment of a fiddle, which he considers better than anything to dance to." ''Op.cit. p

...and it was there that he learned many of the tunes that were to form part of his superb repertoire. ...nbsp; To further supplement their income the family also hawked fish round the local farms and cottages.

'''The Zulu War''' ...battle while fighting with those blacks,<br />Every inch a sailor beneath the Union Jack.“<br /><br />

...ped with the business until his death in February 1927 at the ripe old age of 97 years.<BR><BR> ...and Gardner gave him several morris dance tunes - presumably those used by the North Leigh Set:

...d although Charlie was too young to go into the pub, he picked up a number of songs this way. ...], "nigger minstrel" songs, and standard items such as [[Village Pump, The|The Village Pump]] as well as traditional material.

'''The Folkestone Murder''' ...sisters Caroline (19) and Maria Back (17), by Dedia Redanies, a private in the British Swiss Legion based at Shorncliffe Barracks near Folkestone. Bedanie

...e books, articles, and academic theses, which I will add as I become aware of them. ...the life and works of William Shield (1748-1829)''. PhD thesis, University of Leeds. 2023. [https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/32897/ PDF]

...at Joseph would have had formal education beyond that which was offered by the local Sunday school. ...songs from gypsies who used to come and camp in the chalk pits that dotted the landscape.

...ll did not quite receive the prominence he deserved. The present centenary of his collecting is doing much to further restore his reputation. ...nd then concentrated on [[Dorset]] and Gardiner concentrated on the county of [[Hampshire]], continuing until his death in January 1910.

...A ''Take 6'' Search for Jekyll as Collector list 64 items, all of them in the Butterworth MSS. ..., W.C., and employed as an Assistant in the Department of Printed Books at the British Museum.

...inked to their original MSS enter the filenames [LEB/2/1/1 or whatever] in the search box here. [[http://www.vwml.org/]]''' '''GB/6b/1 All Round My Hat Version 1 of 2'''

...e Home Page of the Full English Transcription Programme (formerly known as the [[Take 6 Transcription Programme]]) ...inked to their original MSS enter the filenames [LEB/2/1/1 or whatever] in the search box here. [[http://www.vwml.org/]]'''

This index covers the first four volumes of the series of Thompson's dance books entitled '200 Country Dances' and published between * [[Adieu, The|The Adieu]] 79-V4

...e Home Page of the Full English Transcription Programme (formerly known as the [[Take 6 Transcription Programme]]) ...inked to their original MSS enter the filenames [LEB/2/1/1 or whatever] in the search box here. [[http://www.vwml.org/]]'''

...inked to their original MSS enter the filenames [LEB/2/1/1 or whatever] in the search box here. [[http://www.vwml.org/]]''' == Sheet Music Tune Book of Melodies from Butterworth MS 6a ==