'' The Northumbrian Minstrel '' is a
songbook
A song book is a book containing lyrics for songs. Song books may be simple composition books or spiral-bound notebooks. Music publishers also produced printed editions for group singing. Such volumes were used in the United States by piano manu ...
, giving the lyrics of local, now historical songs, printed and published at Alnwick in 1811 by
William Davison. The majority of the songs are written by songwriters from the North of the , and therefore the content differs from most of the other popular Northumbrian
chapbooks.
Details
The Northumbrian Minstrel (full title - “The Northumbrian Minstrel; A Choice selection of Songs. Alnwick, Printed by W. Davison, 1811) is a songbook of
Geordie
Geordie () is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect used by its inhabitants, also known in linguistics as Tyneside English or Newcastle English. There are different definitions of what constitut ...
folk song
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s consisting of almost 60 pages and 45 song lyric, published in 1811.
The publication
It is, a collection of songs from North
Northumberland
Northumberland () is a county in Northern England, one of two counties in England which border with Scotland. Notable landmarks in the county include Alnwick Castle, Bamburgh Castle, Hadrian's Wall and Hexham Abbey.
It is bordered by land on ...
and
Southern Scotland which would have been popular, or topical, at the date of publication. There is nothing in the way of biographies of the authors, the histories of the events, or tunes.
The front cover of the book was as thus :-
THE
Northumbrian
MINSTREL
A
CHOICE SELECTION
OF
SONGS
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_____
ALNWICK
PRINTED BY W. DAVISON
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1811
Contents
Are as below :-
See also
*
Geordie dialect words
Geordie () is a nickname for a person from the Tyneside area of North East England, and the dialect used by its inhabitants, also known in linguistics as Tyneside English or Newcastle English. There are different definitions of what constitute ...
References
External links
* Full text o
''The Northumbrian Minstrel''from the
Hathi Trust
Northumbrian Minstrelsy
{{DEFAULTSORT:Northumbrian Minstrel
English folk songs
Songs related to Newcastle upon Tyne
Northumbrian folklore
Geordie songwriters
1811 books
Song books