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Dunn, Ginette17
Pickering, Michael J7
Sullivan, Keith Frederick6
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Hart, Bob (1892-1978)5
Curtin, John3
Russell, Ian3
Cooke, Jane A2
Green, Anthony E (1943-)2
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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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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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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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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, ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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