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Folksongs of Britain and Ireland : a guidebook to the living tradition of folksinging in the British Isles and Ireland, containing 360 folksongs from field recordings

1975

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Abstract: Includes songs in Scottish Gaelic,Irish Gaelic,Welsh, Manx Gaelic - Cornish,Channel Islands, of courtship, false love and true,of seduction,of uneasy wedlock,of occupations,of country life,of newsworthy sensation,of diversion,of good company and of the travelling people.

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Main title:

Folksongs of Britain and Ireland : a guidebook to the living tradition of folksinging in the British Isles and Ireland, containing 360 folksongs from field recordings / edited by Peter Kennedy ; assisted by Allison Whyte ... [et al.] ; musical transcriptions and guitar chords by Raymond Parfrey.

Author:

Kennedy, Peter, 1922-, editorParfrey, Raymond, musical transcriberWhyte, Allison, contributor

Imprint:

London : Cassell, 1975.

Collation:

xvi, 824 pages : map (on lining papers) music, portraits ; 29 cm.

Notes:

Musical transcriptions and guitar chords by Raymond Parfrey.Bibl. - Index.Includes songs in English, Lowland Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Irish Gaelic, Welsh, Cornish, Channel Islands French, Romany and Tinkers' Cants.

Contents:

Contents: Le petit navire - Green grows the laurel - A health to all true-lovers - The maid of Australia - As I roved out - Belle Rose - Au bord d'une fontaine - The mole-catcher - The linen song - The farmer's boy - The innocent hare - Ground for the floor - Green brooms - The lion's den - The jolly tinker.

ISBN:

03049375419780304937547

Dewey class:

784.4941784.4941784.762

LC class:

ML3650

Local class:

781.620942

Language:

Multiple languagesEnglish#ACOGAEIRIMAXWELCORFRERO

Subject:

Folk-songs, British