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Walking good : travels to music in Romania and Hungary
O'Connor, Peter (1949-)
1971
On Gypsy fiddlers.
Walking good : travels to music in Romania and Hungary
O'Connor, Peter (1949-)
1971
On Gypsy fiddlers.
McGibbon's collection of Scots tunes : for the violin or German flute, with a bass for the violoncello or piano forte
McGibbon, William (1690-1756); Bremner, Robert (1789)
[ca. 1780]
Vocal Music
1958-1981
This subseries contains items relating to aspects of traditional vocal music, including ballad and folk song. The subject matter includes informants' song collections, institutional collections of fol...
Vocal Music: General
1958-1979
This sub-subseries contains items on general aspects of traditional song, and includes collections of folk songs, a copy of a paper by Herbert Halpert on the attitude of American folk singers, lists o...
Ballad
[1960s-1970s]
This sub-subseries contains items on the ballad, and includes ballad texts, comparative studies and papers by Emily Lyle on 'Thomas the Rhymer'.
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);...
Old Gaelic Bards
Lloyd Weedon, Trevor
[1970s]
This file contains a photocopy of Lloyd Weedon's ms. paper on bardic Gaelic singers in Scotland.
Instrumental Music
[1936-1977]
This subseries contains items on traditional instrumental music. The subject matter includes organ pipes, types of bands, piping in Northern England and Irish music.
Sound Recording, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian
5 October 1972
Stanley Marsden singing and talking in his home, Allen Syke Farm, in Lodge Moor, Sheffield. Talks about singing at school, and Riley Marsdensinging at the Sportsman pub, Lodge Moor. Conclusion of sess...
Sound Recording, South Yorkshire
Russell, Ian; Gifford, Terry
December 1971
Ernest Dyson and his wife Mina Dyson, recorded in their home in Stannington, Sheffield. Mina Dyson talks about composing the carols 'Stannington' (plays/sings first verse) and 'Bradfield'; names of ca...