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Launched in June 2013, The Full English is a folk archive of 44,000 records and over 58,000 digitised images; it is the world's biggest digital archive of traditional music and dance tunes. [1] The archive brings together 19 collections from noted archivists, including Lucy Broadwood , Percy Grainger , Cecil Sharp and Ralph Vaughan Williams .
The Caller (folk song) Can't Help Thinking About Me; The Cat Sat Asleep by the Side of the Fire; Catcheside-Warrington's Tyneside Songs; Catcheside-Warrington's Tyneside Stories & Recitations; John W. Chater; Chater's Annual; Cherry Ripe (song) Child Ballads; The Cliffs of Old Tynemouth; Cob coaling; Cock a doodle doo; Cock Robin; A Collection ...
The Folk Song Index is a collaborative project between the Oberlin College Library and the folk music journal Sing Out!. It indexes traditional folk songs of the world, with an emphasis on English-language songs, and contains over 62,000 entries and over 2,400 anthologies. [12]
The English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) listed 187,800 records in the growing Folksong database as at October 2012 (which total includes all of the songs in the Broadside database that have 'traditional' origins). [1] The purpose of the index is to give each song a unique identifying number.
English folk-song collectors (36 P) English folk songs (47 C, 329 P) Pages in category "English folk music" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
"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 ...
In the strictest sense, English folk music has existed since the arrival of the Anglo-Saxon people in Britain after 400 AD. The Venerable Bede's story of the cattleman and later ecclesiastical musician Cædmon indicates that in the early medieval period it was normal at feasts to pass around the harp and sing 'vain and idle songs'. [1]
Simple English; Slovenčina; ... Folk-song collectors (2 C, 13 P) Folk songs (26 C, 48 P) V. Folk music venues (29 P) ... List of folk music traditions;