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This listing is our May update on newly catalogued additions to the library collections. All items are available to consult or listen to in the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.
BOOKS
Author | Title | Subtitle | Author/Editor notes | Date |
A service to celebrate the life of Roy Dommett CBE, 1933-2015 : | 11am Saturday 21st November 2015 Christ Church, Church Crookham / | 2015. | ||
A celebration of the life of Ivor Allsop : | 1st August 1930-2nd November 2012 / | 2012. | ||
Horsley, I. N. | Our 'Lincolnshire lads' the Grimsby Morris Men : | 1967 - 45 years! - 2012 / | 2013. | |
Gray, Chris | The art of folk song : | Pete Seeger, May 3 1919-January 27 2014 / | Chris Gray. | 2014. |
Greenland, Felicity J. | Whaling songs in Japan as a reflection of cultural practice / | Felicity Greenland. | 2011. | |
Greenland, Felicity J. | Whaling songs in Japan as a reflection of cultural attitudes / | Felicity Greenland. | 2012. | |
Greenland, Felicity J. | Transition and transformation : | cross-cultural interpretation of song / | Felicity Greenland. | 2010. |
Out of this world : | English folk song in the community choir repertoire / | 2011. | ||
Slade, Paul | Unprepared to die : | America's greatest murder ballads and the true crimes that inspired them / | Paul Slade. | 2015. |
Rose, Marion | Step lively 2 : | Canadian dance favourites, with CD recording of Canadian music / | by Marion Rose. | 2000. |
Sermon, Richard | A sweet country life : | the folk songs of Elizabeth Smitherd and William Henry Watts, collected at Tewkesbury by Cecil Sharp in 1908 / | introduced and edited by Richard Sermon. | 2010. |
Williams, Dave | Chips off the old block : | a selection of traditional and community songs and mummer's plays with related notes and anecdotes from the New Forest area / | collected by Dave Williams. | 1996. |
Sabol, Andrew J. | Songs and dances for the Stuart masque : | an edition of sixty-three items of music for the English court masque from 1604 to 1641 / | with an introductory essay by Andrew J. Sabol. | 1959. |
Dorita y Pepe / | 1969. | |||
Schofield, Derek | The Sing Out Folk Club in Crewe / | by Derek Schofield. | 2000. | |
Once in a blue moon : | a tribute to Lal Waterson / | 2007. | ||
Shallal : | Cornish dance for 3 to 7 years / | 2003. | ||
Padstow Echo : | May 1998, number 107 / | 1998. | ||
Riley, Kate | Kensington Folk Dance Club, 1927-2009 / | Kate Riley. | 2010. | |
Jewitt, Diana | Folk dance: an alternative life style (or wizards and muggles) / | Diana Campbell Jewitt. | 2007 | |
Review of English literature, volume 16, March 2009 / | 2009 | |||
Folkus residential weekend of music making, Waddow Hall, Clitheroe, Lancashire, 5th-7th February 2010 / | 2010. | |||
Maxfield, A. C. | Dancing and ball room etiquette / | by A. C. Maxfield. | [1901]. | |
Cake and cockhorse, autumn/winter 2000, volume 15, number 1 / | 2000. | |||
MacLean, Amanda | The flax flower / | by Amanda MacLean. | 2015. | |
Williams, Sarah F. | Damnable practises : | witches, dangerous women, and music in seventeenth-century English broadside ballads / | Sarah F. Williams. | 2015. |
McLane, Maureen N. | Balladeering, minstrelsy, and the making of British romantic poetry / | Maureen McLane. | 2011. | |
Robinson, Suzanne | Grainger the modernist / | edited by Suzanne Robinson and Kay Dreyfus. | 2015. | |
Dowling, Martin W. | Traditional music and Irish society : | historical perspectives / | Martin Dowling. | 2014. |
Allan Moore, Giovanni Vacca. | Legacies of Ewan MacColl : | the last interview / | Allan Moore, Giovanni Vacca. | 2014 |
Hollingworth, Brian | Songs of the people : | Lancashire dialect poetry of the industrial revolution / | Brian Hollingworth, editor. | 1977. |
Callens, Philippe | Continental capers : | a collection of English country dances / | by Philippe Callens ; music edited by Mik Lammers. | 1999. |
Hyde, Douglas | Amhráin chúige Chonnacht I-III = The songs of Connacht I-III : | Ó Cearbhalláin, amhráin molta na mBan, amhráin óil = songs of O'Carolan, songs praising women, drinking songs / | Dubhghlas de hÍde, in eagar ag Breandán Ó Conaire = Douglas Hyde, edited, with an introduction, by Breandán Ó Conaire. | 1985. |
Ohrlin, Glenn | The hell-bound train : | a cowboy songbook / | Glenn Ohrlin ; with a biblio-discography by Harlan Daniel. | 1973. |
Friedman, Albert B. | The Penguin book of folk ballads of the English-speaking world / | edited by Albert B. Friedman. | 1977. | |
Vignal, Marc | Ralph Vaughan Williams / | Marc Vignal. | 2015. | |
Watts, Thomas | The Thomas Watts manuscript : | the music of a late 18th century Derbyshire musician / | 2014 | |
Munnelly, Tom | The singing will never be done : | Tom Munnelly: collected essays and lectures, 1990-2007 / | edited by Anne Clune. | 2014. |
Sparling, Heather | Reeling roosters & dancing ducks / | Heather Sparling. | 2014. | |
Brown, Jack | A mixed bag of dances / | by Jack Brown. | 2014. | |
The soldier's muse / | 1980. | |||
Russell, Ian | A festival of village carols : | sixteen carols from the Mount-Dawson manuscripts, Worrall / | transcribed and arranged by Ian Russell. | 1994. |
Brothwell, Jack | Jack's maggot : | a collection of 17th & 18th century tunes / | arranged by Jack Brothwell | 1988. |
Wyndham-Read, Martyn | Maypoles to mistletoe : | the book of the show / | written by Martyn Wyndham-Read and Chris Brown ; with contributions from Jim Farr ; illustrations by Danni Wyndham-Read with Helen Brown and Mary Kent ; music transcriptions by Iris Bishop. | 2008. |
Russell, Ian | Arise, rejoice and sing! : | village carols from the Blue Ball Inn, Worrall / | edited by Ian Russell. | 1988. |
Adderbury tradition : | Cotswold morris dancing / | 1989. | ||
Kerridge, Roy | Last train to heaven's gate / | Roy Kerridge | [2015]. | |
Bush, Alan | 20 sing for pleasure songs : | for three-part accompanied or unaccompanied singing / | Selected by A. L. Lloyd ; music arranged by Alan Bush. | 1955. |
Trollope, Michael | Geordie's wife : | three Tyneside songs for women's voices (S.S.A.) unaccompanied / | by Michael Trollope. | 1963. |
Tongue, Ruth L. | The Quaker's wife : | and other Somerset folk songs ; for unison voices / | collected by Ruth Tongue ; arranged by Felton Rapley. | 1965. |
Rebel ceilidh song book '67 / | c1966. | |||
Silverman, Jerry | Folk blues : | one hundred and ten American folk blues / | compiled, edited, and arranged for voice, piano and guitar by Jerry Silverman ; with a chart of basic guitar chord fingering patterns and a full bibliography and discography. | 1958. |
A'choisir-chiuil : | The St. Columba collection of Gaelic songs, arranged for part-singing / | [ca. 1930]. | ||
Conway, Pat | 100 great Scottish songs : | with words and music / | presented by Pat Conway. | c1986. |
Heaume, Doris O. | Aen livre de chànsaöns et dànses = The book of Guernsey songs and dances / | collected and prepared by Doris O. Heaume ; arranged for pianoforte by John Longmire. | 1976. | |
Moeran, E. J. | The jolly carter : | folk song from Suffolk / | coll. and arr. by E. J. Moeran. | 1925. |
Brown, Christopher | A-courting we will go : | a cycle of traditional English songs arranged for female or children's voices / | by Christopher Brown. | 1977. |
Bush, Alan | Ten English folk songs : | for mixed voices or female voice choir, book 1 / | by Alan Bush | 1953 |
Foster, Arnold | Manx spinning wheel song : | Arrane queeyl nieuee / | air from Moore's 'Manx ballads' ; English translation of Manx traditional words by Mona Douglas ; freely arranged as a two-part song with pianoforte accompaniment by Arnold Foster. | 1929. |
Wilkinson, Stephen | Consider well : | for unaccompanied male voice choir with optional soprano solo / | words partly traditional and partly revised by W. H. Grattan Flood ; Irish melody arranged by Stephen Wilkinson. | 1976. |
Fraser, Shena | Cotton : | unison song with optional descant and piano / | words by Eleanor Farjeon ; music by Shena Fraser. | 1978. |
De Cormier, Robert | The Erie Canal and Great grandad : | American folk songs for two-part chorus of equal voices and piano / | arranged by Robert de Cormier. | 1978. |
McIntyre, Freda | What was that dance? 6 | : (over 1150 dances in the English tradition) | / List compiled by Freda McIntyre | 2015. |
Gillies, Anne Lorne | Songs of Gaelic Scotland / | Anne Lorne Gillies. | 2005. | |
Bryan, Valerie | Ceòl nam fèis, a' chiste chiuil : | a collection of songs and music from the Scottish Gaelic tradition complete with translations and source notes / | compiled & edited for Fèisean nan Gàidheal by Valerie Bryan. | 2002. |
MacAndrew, Hector | The MacAndrew collection / | being the musical compositions of Hector MacAndrew in their entirety ; including five compositions by Peter MacAndrew ; one composition by Thomas Wynne ; [edited by Doug Veitch]. | 2002. | |
Finstad, Brynjulv | Vise-fisker & andre viser / | Brynjulv Finstad. | [2004]. | |
Loesberg, John | An Irish tunebook, part one : | a treasury of airs and dance tunes, suitable for all instruments / | selected and edited by John Loesberg. | 1986. |
Ireland's best slow airs / | 1999. | |||
Gray, Fran | Hands on Scottish tin whistle / | by Fran Gray. | 2005. | |
Hunter, James | The fiddle music of Scotland : | a comprehensive annotated collection of 365 tunes with a historical introduction / | James Hunter ; edited by Alastair Hardie and William Hardie ; foreword by Yehudi Menuhin. | 1988. |
Shaw, Margaret Fay | Folksongs and folklore of South Uist / | by Margaret Fay Shaw. | 1999. | |
Clarke, H. J. | The new approach to uilleann piping / | H. J. Clarke. | c1998. | |
Buchan, David | The ballad & the folklorist : | the collected papers of David Buchan / | edited by W. H. F. Nicolaisen and James Moreira. | 2013. |
Kidson, Frank | Traditional tunes / | Frank Kidson ; with a new foreword by John Francmanis. | 1999. | |
Folksongs for ukulele / | 2011. | |||
Tarbatt, Henry | Merlin music, session book one : | one hundred great session tunes / | compiled and arranged for all melody instruments by Henry Tarbatt and Jenny Smith, with accompaniment chords by Mike Hale. | 2003. |
Burns, Robert | The complete poems and songs of Robert Burns / | 2005. | ||
Griffiths, Jane | Traditional fiddle : | a practical introduction to styles from England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales / | edited by Jane Griffths. | 2015. |
Dun, Finlay | Orain nah-albam : | a collection of Gaelic songs with English and Gaelic words, and an appendix containing traditionary notes to many of the songs / | the piano-forte accompaniment arranged and revised by Finlay Dun. | [1848]. |
Boswell, George W. | Folk songs of middle Tennessee : | the George Boswell collection / | edited by Charles K. Wolfe. | 1997. |
McNeil, W. K. | Southern mountain folksongs : | traditional songs from the Appalachians and the Ozarks / | W. K. McNeil. | 1993. |
Post, Jennifer C. | Music in rural New England; family and community life, 1870-1940 / | Jennifer C. Post. | 2004. | |
Arnold, Byron | An Alabama songbook : | ballads, folksongs, and spirituals / | collected by Byron Arnold ; edited with an introduction by Robert W. Halli Jr. | 2004. |
Carlin, Richard | Worlds of sound : | the story of Smithsonian Folkways / | Richard Carlin, in association with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. | 2008. |
Rammel, Hal | Nowhere in America : | the Big Rock Candy Mountain and other comic utopias / | Hal Rammel. | 1990. |
Wade, Stephen | The beautiful music all around us : | field recordings and the American experience / | Stephen Wade. | 2012. |
Healy, James N. | The Mercier book of old Irish street ballads, volume ll / | history and politics (1798 to Parnell) / | Edited with music by James N. Healy. | 1969. |
Healy, James N. | The Mercier book of old Irish street ballads, volume lll / | the people at play / | Edited with music by James N. Healy. | 1969. |
Healy, James N. | The Mercier book of old Irish street ballads, volume lV / | no place like home / | Edited with music by James N. Healy. | 1969. |
Healy, James N. | Love songs of the Irish / | Collected and annotated by James N. Healy ; music written out by Con O'Donovan, with chords suitable for guitar, piano and organ. | 1977. | |
Healy, James N. | Ballads from an Irish fireside / | collected, and with notes and illustrations by James N. Healy ; music artwork and guitar chords by Lochlin Scully. | 1986. | |
Coleman, Hilary | Shout Kernow : | celebrating Cornwall's pub songs / | Hilary Coleman and Sally Burley. | 2015. |
Rowland-Jones, Anthony | Recorder technique / | by A. Rowland-Jones | 1959. |
CD's
Artist | Title | Subtitle | Date |
Bass Instincts. | Basslands | 1987. | |
Bass Instincts. | Black to bassics | 2008. | |
George Moss. | Scottish tradition 15 : | Pibroch | 2015. |
Caz Forbes and Ste Moncrieff. | The green lady | 2013. | |
[Various Artists]. | Wreak rucks riots & resurrection : | songs & tunes from the Leigh folk festival 2012 | 2012. |
Megson. | In a box | 2014. | |
Wolfscote featuring Cathy Lesurf. | Turn the glass | 2015. | |
Marry Waterson and David A. Jaycock. | Two wolves | 2015. | |
Mark Dowding. | Travelling tales | 2006. | |
Mark Dowding. | Brown photographs | 2002. | |
The Leominster morris. | Wassail 2000 | 2000. | |
Bernard Wrigley. | Songs of the seven seas | 2011. | |
With these arms : | songs and poems of the MUA | 2003. | |
Various. | Shirley inspired | 2015. | |
Peters, Brian | Squeezebox, voicebox | 2015. | |
Various. | Dust on the nettles | a journey through the British underground folk scene 1967-1972 / | 2015. |
The music of Kentucky | early American rural classics 1927-37. | 2013. | |
The music of Kentucky | early American rural classics 1927-37 Vol. 2. | 2014. | |
Harte, Frank | There's gangs of them digging : | Songs of Irish labour / | 2007. |
New Scorpion Band. | Out on the ocean / | 2004. | |
Dowding, Mark | A mon like Harry : | The songs of Harry Boardman / | 2004. |
Kenna, Andy | Old port of call : | The maritime songs of Bob Watson / | 2014. |
Pegg, Bev | The foundry ditty and the industrial air / | 1980. | |
Donkey's Breakfast. | The farmer & the fisherman : | Song and music from Lincolnshire / | 1996. |
Prentice, John | The king's shilling / | 1999. | |
Raven, Michael | Songs and dances of Herefordshire / | 1996. | |
Liverpool Forebitter. | Salt water ballads : | John Masefield / | 2002. |
Swinging the Lead. | Swinging the Lead / | 2013. | |
Voice Union ; Liliana Bertolo, Evelyne Girardon, Sandra Kerr. | Voice Union / | 1997. | |
Red Duster; Ron Baxter & Ross Campbell. | Farewell to the Clan Line : | songs and stories of the British merchant fleet / | 2002. |
Red Duster; Ron Baxter & Ross Campbell. | North West passage : | the fate of Franklin & his gallant crew / | 2004. |
The Jolly Fine Company Company ; by Tom Walsh and Gregg Butler. | The old lamb & flag : | the songs of Preston and its guild / | 1992. |
Alligator Horse. | A most desperate undertaking : | the British Army in the Crimea 1854-56 / | 2003. |
The Larboard Watch. | All hands make sail, part 1 : | The Courtyard Studio Theatre 13/11/2005, Hereford / | 1992. |
The Larboard Watch. | All hands make sail, part 2 : | The Courtyard Studio Theatre 13/11/2005, Hereford / | 2005. |
Alan Lomax in Haiti, 1936-1937 : | recordings for the Library of Congress / | 2009. | |
I wish there was no prisons | songs and recitations from the Mike Yates collections, 1964-1978. | 2015. | |
Hilmar Alexandersen, Sven Nyhus, Peder Nyhus, Glåmos spelemannslag. | Slåttar frå Trøndelag og Rørostraktene / | 2010. | |
Ingebjørg Liestøl, Brita Bratland, Talleiv Røysland, Magne Manheim. | Folkeviser - Bånsullar - Slåttar og stev / | 2010. | |
Shetland fiddle music / | 1993. | ||
Clo dubh clo donn / | 2001. | ||
60 years of Scottish Gaelic, 1899-1959 : | Gaelic recording vocalists and National Mòd gold medallists / | 2012. | |
John Richards. | Behind the lines | 2001. | |
John Richards. | The lifeboat | 2012. | |
John Richards. | Walls of hope | 2006. | |
The New Scorpion Band. | Why, solider, why? / | 1995. | |
The Laggan. | I am the common man / | 2002. | |
Selected and presented by Reg Hall. |
'It was mighty!' : | the early days of Irish music in London / | 2015. |
Edward II | Victoria bridge on a Saturday night | 2015. | |
Walser, Bob | Outward bound | songs from the James Madison Carpenter Collection / | 2010. |
Shout Kernow, CD1 : | celebrating Cornwall's pub songs / | 2014. | |
Shout Kernow, CD2 : | celebrating Cornwall's pub songs / | 2014. |