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Folksongs (Alfred Deller Album)
''Folksongs'' is a 1972 album by the countertenor Alfred Deller with his son Mark Deller and lutenist Desmond Dupré.The Grove Book of Opera Singers 2008 p115 "often accompanied by the lutenist Desmond Dupré. In addition to actual folksongs it includes three songs composed by Thomas Morley and one by Robert Jones. Track listing # "The Three Ravens" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (2:52) # " Black is the Colour of My True Love's Hair" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (1:53 ) # "Sweet Nymph, Come to thy Lover" Thomas Morley – Alfred Deller, Desmond Dupré and Mark Deller (1:41) # "I go before my darling" by Thomas Morley – Alfred Deller, Mark Deller and Desmond Dupré (1:26) # " The Oak and the Ash" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (3:11) # " Barbara Allen" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (2:36) # "Lord Randall" – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (4:04) # " The Water Is Wide" (English version of Waly, Waly) – Alfred Deller & Desmond Dupré (2:35) # " The Tailor and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings issued on compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl, audio tape, or another medium such as Digital distribution#Music, digital distribution. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual Phonograph record#78 rpm disc developments, 78 rpm records collected in a bound book resembling a photograph album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at revolutions per minute, rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the album era. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983 and was gradually supplanted by the cassette tape during the 1970s and early 1980s; the populari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lord Randall
"Lord Randall", or "Lord Randal", () is an Anglo- Scottish border ballad consisting of dialogue between a young Lord and his mother. Similar ballads can be found across Europe in many languages, including Danish, German, Magyar, Irish, Swedish, and Wendish. Italian variants are usually titledL'avvelenato ("The Poisoned Man") or "Il testamento dell'avvelenato" ("The Poisoned Man's Will"), the earliest known version being a 1629 setting by Camillo il Bianchino, in Verona. Under the title "Croodlin Doo" Robert Chambers published a version in his "Scottish Ballads" (1829) page 324 Summary Lord Randall returns home to his mother after visiting his lover. Randall explains that his lover gave him a dinner of eels and that his hunting dogs died after eating the scraps of the meal, leading his mother to realize that he has been poisoned. In some variants, Randall dictates his last will and testament in readiness for his impending death, dividing his possessions among family memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
"Foggy Dew" or "Foggy, Foggy Dew" is an English folk song with a strong presence in the South of England and the Southern United States in the nineteenth century. The song describes the outcome of an affair between a weaver and a girl he courted. It is cataloged as Laws No. O03 and Roud Folk Song Index No. 558. It has been recorded by many traditional singers including Harry Cox, and a diverse range of musicians including Benjamin Britten, Burl Ives, A.L. Lloyd and Ye Vagabonds have arranged and recorded popular versions of the song. History and lyrics The song is a ballad, first published on a broadside in the early nineteenth century. Cecil Sharp collected eight versions of the song, particularly in Somerset, England, but also in the United States. Early versions of the song refer to her fear of the " bugaboo" rather than the foggy dew, as do many recent traditional American versions. In these older versions, an apprentice seduces his master's daughter with the help of a friend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaughan Williams
Ralph Vaughan Williams, (; 12 October 1872– 26 August 1958) was an English composer. His works include operas, ballets, chamber music, secular and religious vocal pieces and orchestral compositions including nine symphonies, written over sixty years. Strongly influenced by Tudor music and English folk-song, his output marked a decisive break in British music from its German-dominated style of the 19th century. Vaughan Williams was born to a well-to-do family with strong moral views and a progressive social life. Throughout his life he sought to be of service to his fellow citizens, and believed in making music as available as possible to everybody. He wrote many works for amateur and student performance. He was musically a late developer, not finding his true voice until his late thirties; his studies in 1907–1908 with the French composer Maurice Ravel helped him clarify the textures of his music and free it from Teutonic influences. Vaughan Williams is among the best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bushes And Briars
"Bushes and Briars" is an English folksong (Roud 1027). A phonograph recording was supposedly made in 1904 of Mrs Humphreys of Ingrave, Essex by Lucy Broadwood and Ralph Vaughan Williams, although the version available in the British Library Sound Archive is more likely to be of Broadwood herself. The recording of Mrs Humphreys was included in 1998 on the EFDSS anthology "A Century of Song". Vaughan Williams published an arrangement in 1908. A version collected at Piddlehinton, Dorset, in 1905 was printed in James Reeves's ''The Everlasting Circle'', 1960. The song was included in Barry Skinner's 1978 album ''Bushes & Briars'' (Fellside FE011). Mainly Norfolk Recordings * |
I Will Give My Love An Apple
"I Will Give my Love an Apple" is a traditional English folk song. It was arranged by Benjamin Britten and by Herbert Howells Herbert Norman Howells (17 October 1892 – 23 February 1983) was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican church music. Life Background and early education Howells was born in Lydney, Gloucest .... The song goes thus: A version of the song was collected at Sherborne, Dorset, by H. E. D. Hammond in 1906; another version was printed in ''Journal of the Folk-Song Society'', vol. 3, no. 11, 1907, p114.Reeves, James (1960) ''The Everlasting Circle''. London: Heinemann; pp. 161-62 References English folk songs {{Song-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down By The Sally Gardens
"Down by the Salley Gardens" (''Irish: Gort na Saileán'') is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'' in 1889. History Yeats indicated in a note that it was "an attempt to reconstruct an old song from three lines imperfectly remembered by an old peasant woman in the village of Ballisodare, Sligo, who often sings them to herself." The "old song" may have been the ballad ''The Rambling Boys of Pleasure'' which contains the following verse: :"Down by yon flowery garden my love and I we first did meet. :I took her in my arms and to her I gave kisses sweet :She bade me take life easy just as the leaves fall from the tree. :But I being young and foolish, with my darling did not agree." The similarity to the first verse of the Yeats version is unmistakable and would suggest that this was indeed the song Yeats remembered the old woman singing. The rest of the song, however, is quite different. Yeats's original title, "An Old Song Re-Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tailor And The Mouse
"The Tailor and the Mouse" (Roud 16577) is an English folk song. Lyrics There was a tailor had a mouse Hi diddle um come feed-al They lived together in one house Hi diddle um come feed-al ''Chorus (after each verse)'' Hi diddle um come tarum tirum, Through the town of Ramsey, Hi diddle um come over the lea, Hi diddle um come feed-al The tailor thought his mouse was ill Hi diddle um come feed-al He gave him part of a blue pill Hi diddle um come feed-al The tailor thought the mouse would die Hi diddle um come feed-al He baked him in an apple pie Hi diddle um come feed-al The pie was cut, the mouse ran out Hi diddle um come feed-al The tailor chased him all about Hi diddle um come feed-al The tailor found his mouse was dead Hi diddle um come feed-al So he bought another one in his stead Hi diddle um come feed-al Recordings *''Sweet England'', Shirley Collins, 1959 *''Folksongs'', Alfred Deller, 1972 *''Burl Ives Sings Little White Duck and Other Children's Favorites'', Burl Ive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waly, Waly
"The Water Is Wide" might refer to: * ''The Water Is Wide'' (book) (1972), by Pat Conroy *''The Water Is Wide'' (2006 film), a ''Hallmark Hall of Fame ''Hallmark Hall of Fame'', originally called ''Hallmark Television Playhouse'', is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City-based greeting card company. The longest-running prime-time series in t ...'' TV movie based on Pat Conroy's book * "The Water Is Wide" (song), an English folk song of Scottish origin * ''The Water Is Wide'' (Charles Lloyd album) by jazz musician Charles Lloyd * ''The Water is Wide'' (Órla Fallon album) by Irish singer Órla Fallon * "The Water is Wide" (The Unit), an episode of the television series ''The Unit'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Water Is Wide, The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Water Is Wide (song)
"The Water Is Wide" (also called "O Waly, Waly" or simply "Waly, Waly") is a folk song of Scottish origin. It remains popular in the 21st century. Cecil Sharp published the song in ''Folk Songs From Somerset'' (1906). Themes and construction The imagery of the lyrics describes the challenges of love: "Love is handsome, love is kind" during the novel honeymoon phase of any relationship. However, as time progresses, "love grows old, and waxes cold." Even true love, the lyrics say, can "fade away like morning dew." The modern lyric for "The Water Is Wide" was consolidated and named by Cecil Sharp in 1906 from multiple older sources in southern England, following English lyrics with very different stories and styles but the same meter. Earlier sources were frequently published as broadsheets without music. Performers or publishers would insert, remove, and adapt verses from one piece to another: floating verses are also characteristic of hymns and blues verses. Lyrics from diffe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Allen (song)
"Barbara Allen" (Child 84, Roud 54) is a traditional folk song that is popular throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. It tells of how the eponymous character denies a dying man's love, then dies of grief soon after his untimely death. The song began as a ballad in the seventeenth century or earlier, before quickly spreading (both orally and in print) throughout Britain and Ireland and later North America. Ethnomusicologists Steve Roud and Julia Bishop described it as "far and away the most widely collected song in the English language—equally popular in England, Scotland and Ireland, and with hundreds of versions collected over the years in North America." As with most folk songs, "Barbara Allen" has been published and performed under many different titles, including "The Ballet of Barbara Allen", "Barbara Allen's Cruelty", "Barbarous Ellen", "Edelin", "Hard Hearted Barbary Ellen", "Sad Ballet Of Little Johnnie Green", "Sir John Graham", "Bonny Barbara Allan", "Bar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
