328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
by
Routledge
328 Pages
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Routledge
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Originally published in 1969. Until the latter half of the nineteenth century, it was thought that England, alone among the European countries, and unlike Scotland and Ireland where collections of ballads and songs had already been published as early as the eighteenth century, had no important native tradition of music. The founding of the (English) Folk-Song Society in 1898, however, and the... Read more
Musical Examples. Preface 1. The Name and Nature of Folk Song 2. Technicalities – Monody, Melody, Ornamentation, Polyphony 3. Ethnology and Nationalism 4. National Idioms and Instruments 5. History of the English Revival 6. Ballads 7. English Folk-Melody 1 – Oral, Broadside, Industrial 8. English Folk-Melody 2 – Functional 9. The Fringes – Norse and Celtic 10. Scholarship – Related Problems – Classification, Editing and Arranging, The Study of Ballads. Sources of Musical Illustrations. Index of Tunes and Sources
Biography
Frank Howes
