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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...
Lists from the Archive of Folk Song
Archive of Folk Song (U.S.)
1971-1974
This file contains lists produced by and for, and information about, the Archive of Folk Song at the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The file includes two versions of the paper, 'The Archiv...
The Singing Style of Bob Hart: A Study of Performance in Traditional Song
Bishop, Julia C
1983
M.A. dissertation which considers the singing style of one Suffolkman, Bob Hart, based on a predominantly musicological analysis of three songs from his repertoire. A number of performances of these s...
Recordings of Yorkshire Songs, Music and Customs at Cecil Sharp House, London
English Folk Dance and Song Society
[1964]
This file contains a typed list of recordings held by the English Folk Dance and Song Society at their headquarters, Cecil Sharp House, London. The recordings cover the period ca. 1940-1964, and inclu...
A Phonological Investigation of Dialect Content Among Traditional Singers of English Folk Song
Tawney, Cyril
1977
M.A. (Dialectology) study which takes as its starting point comments on phonology in folk singing made by Percy Grainger (writing about Lincolnshire singers in the 'Journal of the Folk Song Society' i...
Sound Recordings, Manchester and Shropshire
Dunn, Ginette
April 1974
Fred Jordan, singing at the Bay Horse pub in Manchester on the 26 April 1974; sings 'Farmer's Boy', 'The Vacant Chair' and 'The Old Armchair'. [Tr. 1]. Conclusion of session which starts on tape LAVC/...
Alfred Williams Collection: Index
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of a typed index to the Alfred Williams Collection of Folk Songs at Swindon Reference Library, collected in the early 20th century. The index was compiled by Frank Pursl...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
8 September 1976
[Collector announcement]; Will White, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about singing; living at the Black Bull pub; pub singing; biographical details; running the pub with his wife; also mixed farm...
Sound Recordings, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
1971-1973
Ken White in conversation in his home in Sheffield , 24 October 1971. Talk of family and childhood, and four songs. [Tr. 1] Albert Broadhead and Bernard Broadhead recorded in one of their homes, in ...
Sound Recordings, Suffolk
Dunn, Ginette
1974
Percy Webb, recorded at home in Tunstall Commonon the 31 October 1974 ; talks about making clay ovens [learned during World War One]; farm work; church choir; family; engagement; being gassed during W...
Folk Music in the British Isles
English Folk Dance and Song Society
[1960s-1970s]
This file contains photocopies of papers produced by the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) on folk music collections and recordings in Great Britain. The file includes a photocopy of the lis...
Sound Recording, North Yorkshire
Sullivan, Keith Frederick
8 September 1976
[Collector announcement]; Tommy Gallon, recorded at home in Ugthorpe; talks about pub singing - starting, joining in, songs sung, time, landlord, changes and non-locals; learning songs; cycling to pub...