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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...
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);...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
Stereotypes in English Folk Song
Ferris, Deborah Morwenna
1981
[M.A.] dissertation which suggests that male stereotypes are identifiable by their occupational name, and that from a reference in a song to a man of a certain occupation, a great deal can be predicte...
Song Structure and Social Structure
Lomax, Alan (1915-2002)
[1962]
This file contains two photocopies of Alan Lomax's paper on the importance of the study of folk music in its context, i.e. as a form of human behaviour, from 'Ethnology', volume I, number 4 (October 1...
Papers on Children's Songs and Folklore
Davey, Gwenda
1975-1980
This file contains documentation produced to accompany the 'Multicultural Cassette Series: Stories, Songs and Rhymes for Young Children', produced by Gwenda Davey, and recorded by Norman O'Conner (Vic...