WeRead Powered by ReaderPub
English Folk-Song and Dance cover

English Folk-Song and Dance

Chapter 1: ENGLISH FOLK-SONG AND DANCE
Open in WeRead

Explore more books like this:

About This Book

This study surveys English folk songs and dances, defining folk-song, tracing origins, and analyzing musical construction, variation, and diffusion. It categorizes forms—narrative ballads, love, pastoral, drinking, criminal, military, sea, hunting, labour, carols, and children's singing-games—and discusses printed broadside tradition and collecting practices and notation. The dance section examines Morris, sword, furry, and country dances, associated tunes, instruments, costume, and extra characters, and describes revival efforts and contemporary practice. Discussions are illustrated and accompanied by bibliographies to support further research.

The Project Gutenberg eBook of English Folk-Song and Dance

This ebook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this ebook or online at www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this eBook.

Title: English Folk-Song and Dance

Author: Frank Kidson

Mary Neal

Release date: February 12, 2021 [eBook #64536]

Language: English

Credits: Ruth Conway, Paul Marshall and the entire DP proofreading team.

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ENGLISH FOLK-SONG AND DANCE ***

ENGLISH FOLK-SONG
AND DANCE


CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
London: FETTER LANE, E.C.
C. F. CLAY, Manager

Edinburgh: 100 PRINCES STREET
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd.
Toronto: J. M. DENT & SONS, Ltd.
Tokyo: THE MARUZEN KABUSHIKI-KAISHA

All rights reserved


ENGLISH FOLK-SONG
AND DANCE

BY
FRANK KIDSON
AND
MARY NEAL

Cambridge:

at the University Press
1915