''The Songs of the Tyne''
[Full title ''The Songs of the Tyne being a collection of Popular Local Songs'' Number 10 – published around 1846 by John Ross, Printer and Publisher, Royal Arcade, Newcastle.] is a
chapbook
A chapbook is a small publication of up to about 40 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch.
In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered bookle ...
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 ...
dialect songs, consisting of ten small volumes, and published c. 1846. It was the first in what became a series of publications;
a second series of just three chapbooks was published c. 1850 by
William R Walker.
The publication
John Ross edited the ten volumes of "The Songs of the Tyne", a series of booklets containing "local" songs by "local"
Tyneside
Tyneside is a built-up area across the banks of the River Tyne in northern England. Residents of the area are commonly referred to as Geordies. The whole area is surrounded by the North East Green Belt.
The population of Tyneside as published i ...
composers, some well known at the time, others not.
A set of the original documents were kept in the archives of
Newcastle University
Newcastle University (legally the University of Newcastle upon Tyne) is a UK public university, public research university based in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East England. It has overseas campuses in Singapore and Malaysia. The university is ...
.
They are published by the
John Ross, Printer and Publisher, Royal Arcade,
Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to:
*Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England
*Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England
*Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area in Australia, named after Newcastle ...
.
Contents
See also
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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
Farne archive – click "Songs of the Tyne...... Nos.1, 4–10" and "go"Allan’s Illustrated Edition of Tyneside songs and readings
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English folk songs
Songs related to Newcastle upon Tyne
Northumbrian folklore
Chapbooks
Song books