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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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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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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...

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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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Folk Songs of Northumberland and Durham

Atchison, Maureen

1964

A collection of folk songs recorded from four informants (including a miner, and a mother and daughter) living in Northumberland and Durham. The text and tune transcription for each song are provided....

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Village Song and Culture: A Study Based on the Blunt Collection of Song from Adderbury, North Oxfordshire

Pickering, Michael J

1981

This file contains a complete photocopy of a typed draft, with ms. corrections, of Pickering's study of the folk songs of Adderbury, as published by Croom Helm , 1982, [viii], 281 leaves. The book was...

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Yorkshire Dialect and North Country Songs

[ca. 1934-1960s]

This file contains a printed score and the text of J. Perkins' 'Pratty Flowers', or 'Holmfirth Anthem', no. 4 in the series 'Yorkshire Dialect Songs' (Leeds: Banks, ca. 1934); and illustrated greeting...

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