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Title:

Eighty English folk songs from the Southern Appalachians / collected by Cecil J. Sharp and Maud Karpeles ; specimen piano accompaniments by Benjamin Britten ; chord symbols by Pat Shaw.

Publisher:

M.I.T. Press,

Copyright Date:

©1968

Description:

1 score (109 pages) ; 19 cm

Subject:

Ballads, English--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Folk songs, English--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Folk music--Appalachian Region, Southern.
Appalachians (People)--Music.
Appalachian Region, Southern--Songs and music.
Folk songs, English--Southern States.
Appalachians (People)
Ballads, English.
Folk music.
Folk songs, English.
Southern Appalachian Region.
Southern States.
Songs and music.
Scores.
Folk songs.
Ballads.
Folk songs.
Ballads.
Scores.
Music.

Other Authors:

Sharp, Cecil J. (Cecil James), 1859-1924, compiler.
Karpeles, Maud, 1885-1976, compiler.
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976, arr.

Notes:

Principally unaccompanied. "Selected from a collection of about five hundred [songs] made in the Southern Appalachian Mountains during the years 1916 to 1918"--Page 8. "Notes on the songs:" p. 101-107. "Notes on the songs:" p. 101-107.

Contents:

The lovers' tasks (The elfin knight) -- The false knight upon the road -- The seven sleepers (Earl Brand) -- The outlandish knight (Lady Isabel and the elf knight) -- The two crows (The three ravens) -- The two sisters -- John Randolph (Lord Randal) -- Edward -- The cruel mother -- Lord Bateman (Young Beichan) -- The two brothers -- The cherry tree carol -- Love Henry (Young hunting) -- The maid freed from the gallows -- Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor -- Fair Margaret and Sweet William -- The three little babes (The wife of Usher's well) -- Matthy Groves (Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard) -- Barbara Ellen -- Little son Hugh (Sir Hugh) -- The death of Queen Jane -- Gypsy Davy (The gypsy laddie) -- The wife wrapt in Wether's skin -- Georgie (Geordie) -- The house carpenter (The daemon lover) -- Our goodman -- The farmer's curst wife -- The weeping willow tree (The golden vanity) -- Fair Sally (The brown girl) -- The lady and the dragoon -- Locks and bolts -- Jack went a-sailing -- William Hall -- William and Polly (Lisbon) -- Sweet William -- The cruel ship's carpenter -- The true lover's farewell -- The cuckoo -- Pretty Saro -- My dearest dear -- Black is the colour -- The false young man -- The dear companion -- The Irish girl -- Come all you fair and tender ladies -- Arise! arise! -- The nightingale -- Green bushes -- Good morning my pretty little miss -- The rebel soldier -- The rich old lady -- Katie Morey -- I must and I will get married -- Old woman (The deaf woman's courtship) -- Come my little roving sailor -- The miller's will -- Betty Anne -- The tree in the wood -- The riddle song -- When Adam was created -- Sinner man -- The crow-fish man -- Sally Anne -- Cripple creek -- Will you wear red? -- The chickens they are crowing -- Going to Boston -- Soldier boy for me -- Nottamun town -- The Sally buck -- I whipped my horse -- The swapping song (The foolish boy) -- The bird song -- Tommy robin (Cock robin) -- The frog and the mouse -- The squirrel -- The old woman and the little pig -- The farmyard -- What's little babies made of? -- The bridle and saddle.

Series:

MIT 105 music

OCLC:

(OCoLC)847649

LCCN:

77211357

Locations:

PMAX975 -- Morningside University - Hickman-Johnson-Furrow Library (Sioux City)