> I think in the case of a lot of "folk songs" published at this time
> they are more than often completely new and composed in the "style of"
> or often even a complete invention of a tradition.
I won't dispute this, but I would add to it:
There have been many during the course of the 20th cent
I think in the case of a lot of "folk songs" published at this time they are
more than often completely new and composed in the "style of" or often even a
complete invention of a tradition. There are number of recent book that deal
with this inventing of folk traditions, there was a sort of patr
Would that make Phalese the Napster or the Pirate Bay?
A lot of parallels as I see it between then and now. An exploding
technology to take advantage of exploding music trends and a growing
middle class (well, until recently...) to grow the cultures in.
On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:13 PM, howar
At an LSA seminar, Isabelle, whose last name I don't quite remember and could
never spell, remarked that Attaignant was the "Mel Bay of the 16th century."
On Mar 21, 2012, at 2:06 PM, Sean Smith wrote:
> Ach, dear old Pierre Phalese. We'll always wonder about the back story. As
> anthologies go
Ach, dear old Pierre Phalese. We'll always wonder about the back
story. As anthologies go, they're a wonderful pool to draw from. When
we see the other books he pulled from and what he thought would be
worthy of further desemination, upgrading and elimination he starts to
show us much mor
Dear Anthony,
Thanks for this. Your response makes obvious, though, that I didn't make
myself sufficiently clear, as you address issues that I didn't and wouldn't
argue about.
Not only later German baroque lutenists were indebted to French lutenist's
experimentations, the whole of Europe was. No
Thanks, Tom and Mark. Forgive the off-topic nature of this but we
actually saw the credit to Herbert Hughes many years ago, and
understand that Hughes was a collector and assembler of anthologies who
was rather aggressive about taking credit for whatever he could. In
the US folk mu
> We offer a video of Donna singing an Irish ballad that may or may
>not be old. [1]http://wp.me/p15OyV-lK R&D
Beautiful!
Published by Boosey & Hawkes, 1909. Irish Country Songs
Collected in Donegal by poet Padraic Colum and Herbert Hughes
Tom Draughon
Heartist