Author : Willis M. Rapp
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574633821
(Meredith Music Resource). With this superb text, Dr. Rapp gives the wind band community both a historical and musical insight into three of its most revered composers. His study of their band works' evolvement through traditional folk music will serve as a fascinating resource, giving both veteran and novice conductors an invaluable understanding of the band repertoire's formative stages.
Author : Ralph Vaughan Williams
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 36,23 MB
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0141190922
This collection is filled with songs that tell of the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. Here are unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters. By turns funny, plain-speaking and melancholic, these songs evoke a lost world and, with their melodies provided, record a vital musical tradition. Generations of inhabitants have helped shape the English countryside � but it has profoundly shaped us too.It has provoked a huge variety of responses from artists, writers, musicians and people who live and work on the land � as well as those who are travelling through it.English Journeys celebrates this long tradition with a series of twenty books on all aspects of the countryside, from stargazey pie and country churches, to man�s relationship with nature and songs celebrating the patterns of the countryside (as well as ghosts and love-struck soldiers).
Author : Robert Simon
Publisher : GIA Publications
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,50 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780878752812
Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 24,80 MB
Release : 2017-08-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 0571309739
In Victorian times, England was famously dubbed the land without music - but one of the great musical discoveries of the early twentieth century was that England had a vital heritage of folk song and music which was easily good enough to stand comparison with those of other parts of Britain and overseas. Cecil Sharp, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, and a number of other enthusiasts gathered a huge harvest of songs and tunes which we can study and enjoy at our leisure. But after over a century of collection and discussion, publication and performance, there are still many things we don't know about traditional song - Where did the songs come from? Who sang them, where, when and why? What part did singing play in the lives of the communities in which the songs thrived? More importantly, have the pioneer collectors' restricted definitions and narrow focus hindered or helped our understanding? This is the first book for many years to investigate the wider social history of traditional song in England, and draws on a wide range of sources to answer these questions and many more.
Author : R. Mark (CRT) Rogers
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 32,66 MB
Release : 1994-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781581060966
Southern Music
Author : Michael Votta, Jr.
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release :
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781457449963
For slightly over two decades, the College Band Directors National Association published the CBDNA Journal, a research outlet for all types of subjects of interest to the membership. Following cessation of activities in 2002, Michael Votta, Jr., the Journal's most recent editor, assembled representative articles on composers and their works, historical research and composition analysis investigations, and produced this fine collection of writings. As a source of well-constructed research by some of the country's leading musicians, it fills a much needed place in everyone's library.
Author : Julia Bishop
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 0141964324
One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012 'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we've received orders for to sail for old England But we hope in a short while to see you again' One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub; they have bewitched generations of English composers who have set them for everything from solo violin to full orchestra; they are sung in concerts, festivals, weddings, funerals and with nobody to hear but the singer. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning. Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L.Lloyd's original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 'Her keen eye did glitter like the bright stars by night The robe she was wearing was costly and white Her bare neck was shaded with her long raven hair And they called her pretty Susan, the pride of Kildare' In association with EFDSS, the English Folk Dance and Song Society
Author : Richard King
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 32,16 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 057133881X
Originally from Newport, Gwent, for the last eighteen years Richard King has lived in the hill farming country of Radnosrshire, Powys. He is the author of Original Rockers, which was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize, and How Soon Is Now?, both published by Faber.
Author : Will Rapp
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574630385
"A one-of-a-kind interpretive source for the student, performer and conductor. The author's scholarly research provides a comprehensive study of the wind band masterworks of Holst, Vaughan Williams and Grainger. Includes folk song sources, analyses, musical examples, discography, bibliography and more."--Publisher's website.
Author : John Griffiths
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 21,49 MB
Release : 2022-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 135102468X
From 1830, the British Empire began to permeate the domestic culture of Empire nations in many ways. This, the fourth volume of Empire and Popular Culture, explores the representation of the Empire in popular media such as newspapers, contemporary magazines and journals and in literature such as novels, works of non-fiction, in poems and ballads.
