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Dunn, Ginette86
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Hunters' songs

Holme Valley Beagles Hunt

[1948]

"This book of hunting songs is being sold for the benefit of the Holme Valley Beagles Hunt. All proceeds from its sale will be devoted to the finances of the hunt"--front cover.

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On the Songs of the Rababa

Al-Hadithi, Sa'adi

1978

M.A. dissertation on the folk songs of Iraq, with particular reference to three related literary-musical patterns, Attaba, Nile and Swaihly. Chapter One introduces Iraq, the land and its people. The s...

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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);...

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Folk songs of Greece

Alevizos, Susan; Alevizos, Ted

1968

Bibliography: p. 96.

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English dance and song

English Folk Dance and Song Society

v.41, no.3 (1979); v.42 no.1 (1980)-v.42, no.2 (1980)

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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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Songs and dances of Spain

Falange EspaƱola Tradicionalista y de las Juntas Ofensivas Nacional-Sindicalistas. Seccion Feminina

1965

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