English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??

Subject: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From:
Date: 15 May 99 - 09:39 AM

Where is a good place to find texts and music for English folk songs? Especially the songs sung by Oliver Buttle?

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Jeri
Date: 15 May 99 - 10:09 AM

I don't know about Oliver Buttle, but try English Folksongs

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Graham Pirt
Date: 15 May 99 - 10:39 AM

Try www.contemplator.com/folk - sorry cant't do the "bluey thing"! I'll take notice next time someone gives the info. This is a reasonable site with many songs and tunes available as wav. files

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Jeri
Date: 15 May 99 - 11:34 AM

That'd be B.C.T.

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Jeri
Date: 15 May 99 - 11:55 AM

Err...let me try that again.
(gotta watch the things you put inside the sideways pointy hats...mutter,mutter)

B.C.T. for Graham's Suggestion

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 15 May 99 - 07:36 PM

Do you mean Oliver Bootle? Sort of young-ish folksinger still sseen at festivals and stuff in England?

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 15 May 99 - 08:31 PM

Some great links for WORLD folk music! Glad these were posted as I lost all my favourite links when I reformatted my computer...

Mary

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 15 May 99 - 08:35 PM

BTW Here's another source to check out...

Rufu'sEnglishFolkmusic

Mary

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 15 May 99 - 09:51 PM

You can get the new edition of "One Hundred English Folksongs" by Cecil Sharp from Amazon for about $15. (Ships in 2 or 3 days, they say.) If you go through the link to Amazon from Mudcat, Max will get a small percentage to help him continue this great web site.

Sandy

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Shack
Date: 17 May 99 - 05:48 PM

Hey, Graham, it's not the "bluey thing;" it's the "blue clickey thing."

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From:
Date: 17 May 99 - 06:08 PM

English Folk Music Resources on the Internet

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From:
Date: 17 May 99 - 06:22 PM

Cor English Folk Music Resources on the Internet rected

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Graham Pirt
Date: 17 May 99 - 06:26 PM

Thanks Shack

I now know what to call it - if not how to do it

Story of my life!

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Mick Lowe
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 06:09 PM

Just thought I'd refresh this thread as there's a new site devoted to English Traditional music.. yeah I'm plugging stuff again...
NEW SITE
Mick

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: JenEllen
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 06:46 PM

Another good resource I've found and put in the DT is found at http://ingeb.org/folksong.html Got a lot of good stuff from here. Elle

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 08:18 PM

Don't worry Graham--I call it the blue clickie thingie.

Here's the link to Lesley's Folk Music of England, Scotland, Irland, Wales and America site.

...and they are MIDI files, not wav files. I especially like this site because you can read the lyrics as you listen to the tune, AND there are wonderful links to follow and follow and follow!

Mary

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Bruce O.
Date: 04 Jan 00 - 09:22 PM

Margret Dean Smith's 'A Guide to English Folk Song Collections', 1954, lists all songs in English folk song collections (and some books that aren't really such) up to 1952, incuding many in the English folk song journals. In 1951 the English Folk Dance and Song Society published "An Index of English Songs contributed to The Journal of the Folk Song Society' and its continuation 'The Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song Society' to 1950". In a few years we can probably expect another volume giving songs collected since 1950 (with journal name now chanced to 'Folk Music Journal'. But there are already a lot of songs. Steve Roud's index keeps expanding and he's now working on obscure American collections, too. He said in a recent note that few Americans as yet have his Index, and he is working on the American folksongs to make it more appealing to them.

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: Mick Lowe
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 07:37 PM

Bruce
I still don't know where you get all the material from.. I know you said you live near Washington (hope I got that right).. over here in England trying to find good source material is like looking for rocking horse manure
Mick

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: BDenz
Date: 05 Jan 00 - 07:52 PM

Wow! Great resources here!!! Thanks to all of you.

Subject: RE: English Folk Songs and Tunes- Where to find??
From: JamesBerriman
Date: 06 Jan 00 - 05:20 AM

Richard Robinson's tunebook

Dave Herron's chapbook lists UK books currently available on traditional song.

It's online at the traditional song forum website.

The Traditional Song Forum

The Village Music Project

You can listen to some of that English folky stuff at mp3.com:

Greensward

James Berriman and Sue Moffat

( :-]) James