folksong

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• In 1949, "pseudo folksongs" were banned by Dalstroi, the Gulag mining camps in Kolyma. Not so secret: deal at the heart of UK-US intelligence
• Mathieson's legacy to folklore included not only his own extensive oral repertoire of folksong but a manuscript collection of 545 songs written down in 3 huge ledgers as he heard them through the years, beginning as a schoolboy and continuing in the bothies, chaulmers and farm kitchens where he feed as a farm servant. Noo I'm a Young Man Cut Down in My Prime
• The program started off ascetically with "Six Studies in English Folksong" which the program warned us were "very melancholic," continued with a song cycle for violin and tenor called "Along the Field" to poems by A.E. Houseman, and finished off the first half with insanely Pre-Raphaelite lushness to a song cycle set to Dante Gabriel Rosetti poems called "The House of Life. Thomas Glenn Sings Vaughan Williams
• His mother sang Welsh folksongs to him that had been passed on to her by her own mother. John Jeffreys obituary
• Then we went to the Ukrainian Museum (do you sense a theme here?) for a concert of ballads, folksongs, and instumental music from the East European Jewish and Ukrainian traditions (I'm quoting the program). My Friday, By Delia
• It adapted itself to the current fashions for folksong style, the ballad, and finally ragtime and jazz idioms.
• There is a Polish folksong that I learned in school and the English translation starts, "Ah, lovely meadows green and wide."
• So this thesis is an attempt to do a research on the folksongs of Yugur Ethnic Group from the geographical point of view.
• Gold-digging slappers who haul their knickers up with one hand and phone Max Clifford with the other are hardly the betrayed maidens of 14th-century folksongs! Letters to MediaGuardian
• Bruck's style in the German sacred lied shows the move towards the later motet-style settings of chorales, but his greatest achievements were in polyphonic arrangements of German folksongs and court melodies, as well as in the quodlibet. Archive 2009-06-01