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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...
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.
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...
Tape Content Lists and Song Transcriptions
Patten, Bob
1971
A typed letter from the collector, commenting on the singers recorded and their relationship with him. Also included is a typed table of contents for the tape recordings, listing the singers and the s...
Tape Content Lists and Song Lyric Transcriptions
Bystad, Berit
1973
Photocopies of index cards relating to audio recordings of school children singing songs and rhymes. One study is recorded in Norway, and the photocopied cards show transcribed song lyrics. The other ...
Orin Ibeji: Songs in Praise of Twins Booklet
Olayemi, Val
1971
'Orin Ibeji: Songs in Praise of Twins' booklet to accompany tape of the same name. Contains songs transcriptions and translations, with notes at the back. Published with the Institute of African Studi...
Gramophone Discs Additional Material - Folk Songs
1920-1981
Printed and ms. items relating to some of the gramophone discs in LAVC/SRE/D/3/406-438. Includes a record index card listing content relating to folk songs, a 'Yorkshire Folk Songs' list of contents, ...
The Passing of a Community and its Songs: A Study Based on the Unpublished Manuscript Collection of Songs from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire, made by Janet Heatley Blunt
Pickering, Michael J
1978
Ph.D. thesis concerned primarily with the social background to traditional English song, as found in the manuscript collection made by Miss Janet Blunt in Adderbury, North Oxfordshire. The Introductio...
Upper Thames Valley Folk Songs Tape Content Lists
Baldwin, John R
1966-1969
Typed table of contents lists for tapes relating to a thesis on the folk songs of the Upper Thames. Lists the contents of two tapes, noting song titles and conversation topics. Also included are ms. n...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
17 March 1977
George Ellerby, recorded outside his home, Forest Lodge Farm, in Castleton; talks about the collector's research and his moving to Whitby; GE's schooling in Castleton, including singing; comments on h...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
29 November 1976
[Collector announcement, states date as 30 November]; Jim Wilkinson, recorded at home in Tranmire; talks about Yorkshire monologues; thoughts on poetry and painting and sad songs; sings 'Greenland Wha...