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Dunn, Ginette84
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Archive File

On the Songs of the Rababa

Al-Hadithi, Sa'adi

1978

M.A. dissertation on the folk songs of Iraq, with particular reference to three related literary-musical patterns, Attaba, Nile and Swaihly. Chapter One introduces Iraq, the land and its people. The s...

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Archive Sub-sub-series

Folk Song

1958-1981

This sub-subseries contains items on folk song, including texts and tunes. These include copies of song texts submitted by various informants to the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies (IDFLS);...

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Archive Print Item

The songs of Scotland

Graham, G F (1789-1867)

1849

For voice and piano. acc.

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Traditional Song: General

1963-1979

This file contains items relating to aspects of traditional music, and includes a copy of 'The Health of Man', a collection of traditional songs from Bedfordshire, Yorkshire, Suffolk and Lancashire, c...

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Folk Song: General

1959-1981

This file contains typed song texts for 'Ah'm an O'wd Age Penshoner' (provenance unknown); a photocopy of the text and tune for 'Charley of Armor', collected from Captain Shields by Geoff Wood, from a...

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Songs of Frank Weatherill

Weatherill, Frank (1892-1974)

[1967]

This file contains photocopies of texts and tunes for songs in the repertoire of Frank Weatherill of Danby, North Yorkshire. These include the typed text of 'Beside the Bonnie Hawthorn', with a photoc...

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Children's Songs and Rhymes

1954-1979

This file comprises a copy of James Ritchie's 'The Singing Street: A Merry-Ma-Tanzie of Skipping, Hopping, Stotting, Hiding, Birling, Playing, and Dancing Rhymes', revised edition (Edinburgh: Albyn Pr...

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The Folk Songs of Bedfordshire

Webber, M R

1966

A study of songs collected from three adult informants living in Bedfordshire, and from children at a Luton Junior School.

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A Lincolnshire Song Book

Pacey, Robert W

1979

Photocopied draft, and ms. and typed draft of Pacey's 'A Lincolnshire Song Book', with musical notation of song melodies. The collection was compiled from songs collected by Mrs. Ethel Rudkin, who not...

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A Russian song book

Rubin, Rose N; Stillman, Michael; Silverman, Jerry (1931-)

1964, c1962

"Forty-four folk songs and popular songs, with lyrics in Russian, transliteration and English"--On cover.

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Scandinavian songs ands [sic] ballads : modern Swedish, Danish and Norwegian songs

Allwood, Martin Samuel (1916-); Lafford, Lindsay

1957

For voice unacc. or with guitar chords.

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The Folk Song of the Upper Thames

Baldwin, John R

1978

M.Phil. study, based on fieldwork carried out between 1966 and 1968 (with some additional reference to material collected subsequently, in 1969), which relates songs, singing and singers to their soci...

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