Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Sound Recordings, Oxfordshire
Classmark: LAVC/SRE/A497r
Creator(s): Harrop, Peter K
Site Location(s): Subject - Bampton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom( 51.7263, -1.54547 )
Date(s): May 1978
Size and medium: 1 x 12.7cm open reel spool; Duration: 44' 52".
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/414548
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
[Collector announcement]; Bampton Morris Dancers' get together [?recorded in a Bampton pub]; female sings [unidentified]; male relates an anecdote regarding the meeting of the Bampton Morris Dancers; male sings 'Tom Barbary'; male and female sing 'Wild Mountain Thyme'; male sings 'The Volunteer Organist'; unidentified fiddle tune; all sing [ 'The Blacksmith']; unidentified accordion tune [fragment]; female sings [unidentified]. [Tr. 8]
Bampton Morris Dancers dancing outside; announcement of each dance, sound of dancers' bells, fiddle and accordion accompaniment - tunes include 'Shave the Donkey' and 'Constant Billy'. Collector announces the time and location of dancing at several points, naming ?pubs in Bampton. [Tr. 9]
Originally labelled tape A by the collector. Tape B is now tape LAVC/SRE/A498r, and tape C is tape LAVC/SRE/A510r.
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Access and usage
Reproduction
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Physical and technical conditions
9.5cm/sec and 4.75cm/sec. Recording alternates between these two playback speeds. Variable recording level.
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