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==People are Folk:Folk are People== It's rather obvious really. Folk is done by people! The people who do Folk are many and various.

A wiki with notes on Swedish and Scandinavian folk songs and dance music, with abc, midi, and pdf etc. Karen Myers' site "is for musicians who play Scandinavian folk music: the largely traditional music of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Denmar

The Long Company Mummers play takes place on the 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th of January around the Ryburn and C The play is one of the many events put on by the folk development project [[Ryburn 3 Step]] and involves a large number of their

===RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS AND FOLK MUSIC=== Ursula Vaughan Williams writes about R.V.W. and his folk song influences.

...ke the other northern counties, its songs were much collected in the first folk revival, notably by [[Frank Kidson]]. It has continued to be collected for ...over 80 songs (so far) native to or sung for generations in Yorkshire, to play and download for free; entry for each song includes its history, lyrics, an

to bring you information on the spectacle that is the Mummers Play, plus any other form of traditional street drama. ...e by keyword. Photographs of many of these groups can be found in the Folk Play Research website's [http://www.folkplay.info/Gallery/Photographs.htm Photo

...cholas-at-Wade with Sarre, where the Hoodeners have performed a new [[folk play]] each year for over half a century since. ...other songs, while Whitstable follows the St Nicholas lead in performing a play, although their content is quite different and taken from other areas of th

...But as has often been stated, culture recognises no borders. Tunes that we play come from all over the world, and have travelled all over the world. Many E

...But as has often been stated, culture recognises no borders. Tunes that we play come from all over the world, and have travelled all over the world. Many E

...uet concertina|duet]] concertinas can be so horrendously out of tune as to play very different notes on the pull from the push, and thus fool the unwary in ...is a collection of assorted accidentals that enable the skilled player to play in other keys (thus giving rise to the full name of the instrument, the ang

...lly dwindling away into obscurity, as far as the UK was concerned, was the Folk Revival from the '60s onward. Performers looking for a different sound from everything. For folk and morris dance the anglo concertina and its accordion cousin the melodeon

...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

...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

...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 �

'''Cecil James Sharp''', collector of English folk-songs and dances. *''English folk song, some conclusions'', London: Simpkin; Novello, 1907. First edition ava

...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

...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

...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.

...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

...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'.

...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

== 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

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

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

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

'''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

...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

...  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)''

...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

...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

...'; '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

...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

...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

'''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>

...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].

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