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Subject: RE: Brigg Fair From: The Sandman Date: 10 Aug 21 - 03:29 AM Personally,I find analysing musical structure useful for working out acompaniments, however on an emotional level it can sometimes spoil my enjoyment, for me dives and lazarus is a song that i associate with the rev ken loveless.and unfortunately you have unintentionally now spoiled my enjoyment of Brigg Fair, as I had not made that musical association, between dives and lazarus and brigg fair. |
Subject: RE: Brigg Fair From: GUEST,Nick Dow Date: 09 Aug 21 - 07:01 PM It's interesting to note that the tune is the B part of Dives and Lazarus, or the Chorus of Star of the County Down if you prefer. Just goes to underline the art of the traditional singer that he or she can reinvent a tune to suit an entirely different song and mood. |
Subject: RE: Brigg Fair From: GeoffLawes Date: 09 Aug 21 - 06:47 PM Brigg Fair sung by Joseph Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdmgUM4LbS4 |
Subject: RE: Brigg Fair From: Joe Offer Date: 09 Aug 21 - 06:32 PM There's a nice bit of work done on this song at https://mainlynorfolk.info/joseph.taylor/songs/briggfair.html Here are the lyrics we have in the Digital Tradition: BRIGG FAIR It was on the fifth of August The weather fair and mild Unto Brigg Fair I did repair For a love I was inclined I got up with the lark in the morning And my heart was full of glee Expecting there to meet my dear Long time I'd wished to see I looked over my left shoulder To see what I might see And there I spied my own true love Come a-tripping down to me I took hold of her lily-white hand And merrily sang my heart For now we are together We never more shall part For the green leaves, they will wither And the roots, they shall decay Before that I prove false to her The lass that loves me well Recorded on wax cylinder in Lincolnshire in 1905 by Percy Grainger Sung by Ian Robb & 'Finest Kind' on "Heart's Delight" and by Martin Carthy on "Byker Hill" filename[ BRIGFAIR TUNE FILE: BRIGFAIR CLICK TO PLAY oct99
Brigg FairDESCRIPTION: Singer goes to Brigg Fair expecting to meet his sweetheart; she arrives and he takes her hand, rejoicing, and hopes they will never part.AUTHOR: unknown EARLIEST DATE: 1908 (recording, Joseph Taylor); 1905 (collected from Taylor by Grainger, according to OShaughnessy-Yellowbelly1, p. 67) KEYWORDS: love courting reunion lover FOUND IN: Britain(England(Lond,South)) REFERENCES (3 citations): OShaughnessy/Grainger-TwentyOneLincolnshireFolkSongs 3, "Brigg Fair" (1 text, 1 tune) OShaughnessy-YellowbellyBalladsPart1 8, "Brigg Fair" (1 text, 1 tune) ADDITIONAL: Journal of the Folk-Lore Society, Vol. II, No. 7 (1905 (available online by JSTOR)), #2 p. 80, "Brigg Fair" (1 fragment, 1 tune) Roud #1083 RECORDINGS: Isla Cameron, "Brigg Fair" (on Lomax41, LomaxCD1741) Joseph Taylor, "Brigg Fair" (cylinder, on HiddenE) NOTES [9 words]: About as basic a story as can be, but still complete. - PJS Last updated in version 3.0 File: RcBF Go to the Ballad Search form Go to the Ballad Index Instructions The Ballad Index Copyright 2021 by Robert B. Waltz and David G. Engle. |
Subject: RE: Brigg Fair From: GUEST,GloriaJ Date: 11 Aug 10 - 07:23 PM I know what you mean! i do like Vaughan Williams,Butterworth,and Holst in their folksong arrangements, but I find the Delius a bit overwrought for me.he does have the tune in there, but the harmonic structure is quite wayward and adventurous. |
Subject: RE: Brigg Fair From: michaelr Date: 11 Aug 10 - 07:13 PM I happened to hear the Frederick Delius piece "Brigg Fair: An English Rhapsofy" on NPR today. Very nice music, but I could not find the tune in it. |
Subject: RE: Brigg Fair From: GUEST,henryp Date: 06 Aug 10 - 05:58 PM Well done - I'm sure my Gran would have liked this. She was living in Brigg when Percy Grainger recorded Joseph Taylor. |
Subject: RE: Brigg Fair From: Seayaker Date: 05 Aug 10 - 06:32 PM Great! The Frederick Delius adaptation of this is also well worth a listen. |
Subject: RE: Brigg Fair From: The Sandman Date: 05 Aug 10 - 01:07 PM excellent. |
Subject: Brigg Fair From: GUEST,GloriaJ Date: 05 Aug 10 - 12:30 PM Since today is the 5th of august I took it as a good excuse to post this song on youtube - recorded it last night,just live,straight to mike, so it's not perfect.A great classic - and I still think Joseph Taylor's version has never been bettered. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZG9eTjrtlQ |
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