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Folk singer and scholar Fay Hield was commissioned by the EFDSS to create new musical arrangements, drawing on the archive material, to accompany the project. [4] She assembled a collective of musicians to perform at the launch party in June 2013, but after creating a set the musicians decided to extend the collaboration by producing an album and touring under The Full English name in order to ...
This category contains folk songs which originated in England. For a comprehensive list of 25,000 traditional English language songs, see List of folk songs by Roud number . Contents
The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of around 250,000 [1] references to nearly 25,000 songs collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is compiled by Steve Roud. [2] Roud's Index is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before 1900) and a "field-recording index" compiled by Roud.
The Roud Folk Song Index contains 329 examples (though the same version may be reprinted or distributed in more than one publication or recording and therefore generate more than one entry in the index). 92 examples were collected in England, largely in Southern England (17 versions collected in Sussex in contrast with 2 in Yorkshire). 2 were collected from singers in Wales, 2 from Scotland ...
This movement is not based on any folk songs, but rather has two tunes from Playford's Dancing Master of 1651. [2] The finale of the suite opens with an alto saxophone solo based on the folk tune "Dargason", a 16th-century English dance tune included in the first edition of The Dancing Master. The fantasia continues through several variations ...
The Book of World-Famous Music: Classical, Popular, and Folk. Dover Publications (2000). Waltz, Robert B; David G. Engle. "The Red River Valley". The Traditional Ballad Index: An Annotated Bibliography of the Folk Songs of the English-Speaking World. Hosted by California State University, Fresno, Folklore, 2007.
Hold Down a Chord Book 2: Finger Picking Folk Guitar Styles (BBC Publications, 1969) Saturday Night: Twenty Tabulated Folk Songs for the Guitar (BBC Publications, 1969) The John Pearse single string melody method for folk guitarists (Feldman, 1969) 1st Guide To Guitar – a Simple Course Providing the Basics (Amsco Music Pub., 1970) The John ...
"The Recruiting Sergeant" – song (to the tune of "The Peeler and the Goat") from the time of World War 1, popular among the Irish Volunteers of that period, written by Séamus O'Farrell in 1915, recorded by The Pogues. [2] [3] "Mrs. McGrath" – popular among the Irish Volunteers, 1916 [1] "The Saxon Shilling" – written by K. T. Buggy ...