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• People
  ==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.
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• Scandinavia
  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
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• Long Company
  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
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• EDS Vol 45 No 1
  ===RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS AND FOLK MUSIC=== Ursula Vaughan Williams writes about R.V.W. and his folk song influences.
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• Yorkshire
  ...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
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• Drama
  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
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• Hoodening
  ...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
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• Tunes From Other Nations
  ...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
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• Other Nations
  ...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
  702 bytes (101 words) - 12:32, 11 December 2021
• Anglo concertina
  ...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
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• Concertina
  ...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
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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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• 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
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• 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
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• 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.
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• 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
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• 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'.
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