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This is a list of songs by their Roud Folk Song Index number; the full catalogue can also be found on the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library website. Some publishers have added Roud numbers to books and liner notes, as has also been done with Child Ballad numbers and Laws numbers.
"Up and Down This World Goes Round", three voice round by Matthew Locke. [1] Play ⓘ. A round (also called a perpetual canon [canon perpetuus], round about or infinite canon) is a musical composition, a limited type of canon, in which multiple voices sing exactly the same melody, but with each voice beginning at different times so that different parts of the melody coincide in the different ...
The Essen folk song database is another collection that includes songs from non-English-speaking countries, particularly Germany and China. It is a collaboration between groups at Stanford University and Ohio State University , stemming from a folksong collection made by Helmut Schaffrath and now incorporating Classical themes, themes from a ...
Bing Crosby included the song in a medley on his 1961 album 101 Gang Songs. Crosby also used the song as part of a round with his family, as captured on the 1976 album Bing Crosby Live at the London Palladium. Aimee Mann included a brief interpolation in her 1996 song "Choice in the Matter".
The most familiar of the canons is the perpetual/infinite canon (in Latin: canon perpetuus) or round. As each voice of the canon arrives at its end it can begin again, in a perpetuum mobile fashion; e.g., "Three Blind Mice". Such a canon is also called a round or, in medieval Latin terminology, a rota.
In music, a catch is a type of round or canon at the unison. That is, it is a musical composition in which two or more voices (usually at least three) repeatedly sing the same melody, beginning at different times. Generally catches have a secular theme, though many collections included devotional rounds and canons.
Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse came out just shy of two weeks ago and it's already Sony's highest-grossing animated release in history. But its influence goes beyond the box office. In a true ...
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