Traditional and folk music Books
The Library of America Stephen Foster & Co.: Lyrics of the First Great
Book SynopsisStephen Foster is the trunk of the tree of American song. His blackface minstrel songs, including “Oh! Susanna,” “Old Folks at Home” (“Way down upon the Swanee River…”), and “My Old Kentucky Home,” and his parlor ballads, such as “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair,” and “Beautiful Dreamer,” have inspired composers, songwriters, and performers from Charles Ives and George Gershwin to Ray Charles and James Taylor. Foster devoted as much care and craft to his lyrics as he did to his timeless melodies.In this comprehensive new selection, acclaimed music historian Ken Emerson introduces and annotates the lyrics to more than thirty of Foster’s best and best-known songs. These masterpieces by America’s first full-time professional songwriter, forebear of Irving Berlin, Hoagy Carmichael, Carole King, and Bob Dylan, have been so deeply absorbed into our culture that they are often assumed to be folk music. Alongside are fifty other 19th-century American popular songs that influenced Foster or that he in turn influenced, from “Home! Sweet Home!” in the 1820s to “Western Home” (the original “Home on the Range”) in the 1870s.About the American Poets ProjectElegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.Trade Review“Pop-song scholar Emerson presents 81 such songs in their earliest incarnations in this neat collection, sorting them in categories that, used in their heyday, still make sense: Plantation Melodies, Parlor Songs, Drinking and Temperance Songs, Songs of Protest and Poverty, War Songs, and Comic Songs. . . . Essential Americana.”—Booklist
£17.00
Chicago Review Press Still on the Road: The Songs of Bob Dylan,
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£17.99
Chicago Review Press Waylon: An Autobiography
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£18.99
Hal Leonard Corporation Folk Songs for Mandolin
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£15.29
GIA Publications The Book of Fingerplays & Action Songs: Revised
Book SynopsisFrom "The Wheels on the Bus" to "Eensy Weensy Spider," these classic songs combine movement and music to create a high-energy, fun experience for children. At the same time, children learn coordination skills and the musical concepts of form and expression. Easy to learn and fun to sing, fingerplays and action songs are a wonderful way to engage children, while at the same time plant seeds of musical sensitivity and imagination. This special book, for the first time, collects the most cherished of these songs (some in danger of being lost or forgotten), enabling your family to carry on the tradition of laughter and learning that fingerplays and action songs have inspired for generations!
£15.19
GIA Publications The Book of Echo Songs: Revised Edition
Book SynopsisEcho songs, in which a leader sings a phrase and the group repeats it, are some of the most fun and easy-to-learn songs for kids! These songs will have children taking part in a joyful music-making experience almost instantly, while indulging their natural tendency to imitate.Echo songs are a wonderful way to engage children and plant the seeds of musical sensitivity and imagination. This special book, for the first time, collects the most cherished of these songs (some in danger of being lost or forgotten), enabling your family to carry on the tradition of laughter and learning that echo songs have inspired for generations.
£13.25
GIA Publications The Book of Call & Response: Revised Edition
Book SynopsisWhether sung around a campfire, in a classroom, or on a family road trip, call and response songs, in which a leader sings a phrase and a group sings back a reply, are a wonderful interactive experience for kids! Because they are easy to learn and fun to sing, call and response songs are a wonderful way to engage children, while at the same time plant the seeds of musical sensitivity and imagination. This special book, for the first time, collects the most cherished of these songs (some in danger of being lost or forgotten), enabling your family to carry on the tradition of laughter and learning that call and response songs have inspired for generations!
£14.39
GIA Publications The Book of Children's Songtales: Revised Edition
Book SynopsisFavorite American folk songs, filled with magic, wonder, and make-believe, come to life for today’s children with The Book of Children’s Songtales. Encouraging a child’s imagination to grow, storytelling combines with music to create some of the best-loved songs of childhood. Easy to learn and fun to sing, songtales are a wonderful way to engage children, while at the same time plant the seeds of musical sensitivity and imagination. This special book, for the first time, collects the most cherished of these songs (some in danger of being lost or forgotten), enabling your family to carry on the tradition of laughter and learning that songtales have inspired for generations!
£13.25
GIA Publications The Book of Beginning Circle Games Revised
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£13.25
GIA Publications The Book of Songs & Rhymes with Beat Motions:
Book SynopsisIt feels great to get into a rhythm! Establishing a feeling for the beat is central to all rhythmic development, and with The Book of Songs and Rhymes with Beat Motions children of all ages can enjoy fun games while developing a feel for rhythm patterns. Whether felt in the hands, the feet, or with the whole body, the games in this book will have all participants keeping the beat. Because they are easy to learn and fun to play, songs and rhymes with beat motions are a wonderful way to engage children, while at the same time planting seeds of musical sensitivity and imagination. This special book, for the first time, collects the most cherished of these songs and rhymes (some in danger of being lost or forgotten), enabling your family to carry on the tradition of laughter and learning for generations!
£17.84
Algonquin Books Beeswing: Losing My Way and Finding My Voice
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£14.41
Hal Leonard Corporation Hal Leonard Bass Ukulele Method
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£14.39
Hal Leonard Corporation Strum & Sing Taylor Swift - 2nd Edition
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£16.99
Chronicle Books Woody Guthrie: Songs and Art * Words and Wisdom
Book SynopsisAmerica's greatest folk singer and songwriter, philosopher, political analyst, and man-of-the-people, Woody Guthrie and his passionate social politics and deep humanity are as crucial in the America of today as they were in the turbulent 1930s and 1940s. He wrote well over 3,000 songs (including 'This Land is Your Land'), yet he was also a poet, painter, illustrator, novelist, journal keeper, and great letter writer. This fresh, intimate, and beautifully designed book tells Woody's story largely through his own personal writing, lyrics, and artwork, bringing his voice urgently to life. Woody's essential self portrait, carefully-curated by Woody's daughter Nora and award-winning music historian Robert Santelli, is supplemented with contributions by Chuck D., Ani DiFranco, Douglas Brinkley, Arlo Guthrie, and others. Featuring never-before-published handwritten lyrics to some of his greatest songs, personal diary entries, doodles, jokes, and piercing insights on politics and justice, this is an undeniable and important celebration of Woody's powerful life's work.
£30.00
Schott Music Ltd Easy Folk Flute
Book SynopsisShort easy pieces of traditional music from around the world.Compiled from titles across our popular World Music Series and edited by acclaimed folk musicians Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer, this book features tunes from the British Isles to the USA, from Eastern Europe to Asia and beyond, arranged for solo flute with optional piano accompaniment.Ideal for beginner grades, Easy Folk Flute is a round-the-world ticket for musical inspiration. The title includes a CD of all tunes.The Easy Folk seriesEasy Folk is an ideal beginner resource for those looking to explore traditional music from around the world. There are volumes for fiddle, flute, recorder, guitar, ukulele and accordion, with all arrangements tailored to each specific instrument and each tune set in the most comfortable key. Difficulty levels have been carefully considered with all tunes lying between UK grades 1 and 3. Piano accompaniments by Jonny are available online, and chord symbols are included to encourage improvised accom
£18.46
Schott Music Ltd Easy Folk Guitar
Book SynopsisShort easy pieces of traditional music from around the world.Compiled from titles across our popular World Music Series and edited by acclaimed folk musicians Vicki Swan and Jonny Dyer, this book features tunes for solo guitar, with optional accompaniments, from the British Isles to the USA, from Eastern Europe to Asia and beyond. Ideal for beginner grades, Easy Folk Guitar is a round-the-world ticket for musical inspiration. . The title includes a CD of all tunes recorded.The Easy Folk seriesEasy Folk is an ideal beginner resource for those looking to explore traditional music from around the world. There are volumes for fiddle, flute, recorder, guitar, ukulele and accordion, with all arrangements tailored to each specific instrument and each tune set in the most comfortable key. Difficulty levels have been carefully considered with all tunes lying between UK grades 1 and 3. Piano accompaniments by Jonny are available online, and chord symbols are included to encourage improvised acco
£18.56
Schott Music Ltd Scottish Folk Songs 30 Traditional Pieces Schott
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£21.24
Schott Music Ltd Russian Folk Tunes for Piano
Book SynopsisJulian Rowlands presents a collection of 25 Russian folk tunes arranged for solo piano. Famous tunes such as Ochi Chyornye (Dark Eyes) and Kalinka appear alongside others for pianists to discover. Suitable for players of grades 3 to 8, the collection includes notes on the history of Russian folk music, as well as a CD recording of all pieces. German and French translations of all texts are available as PDF.Besetzung:piano
£16.99
Schott Music Ltd Exploring Folk Fiddle: An Introduction to Folk
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£28.49
Schott Music Ltd Scottish Folk Tunes: 55 Traditional and
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£17.50
Schott Music Ltd Argentinian Tango and Folk Tunes for Flute: 41 Traditional Pieces
£16.99
Waltons Publishing Great Irish Songs and Ballads Volume 2 Piano
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£16.16
Waltons Publishing The Waltons Irish Songbook
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£15.08
Waltons Publishing The Waltons Irish Songbook
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£14.04
Waltons Publishing The Waltons Irish Songbook
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£15.08
Waltons Publishing The First Collection of The Dance Music of
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£25.46
University of Missouri Press The Missouri Harmony Songbook
Book SynopsisWith a history dating back to 1820, The Missouri Harmony was the most popular of all frontier shape-note tune books. The 185 songs in the collection were favorites used in Protestant churches and singing schools, and many were already deeply rooted in American culture by the time of its first publication. The story of the book is the story of a burgeoning nation, with its origins in a St. Louis school (where it was introduced by singing master Allen Carden) and its spread along the Mississippi River and its tributaries. It's said that even Abraham Lincoln and his sweetheart Ann Rutledge sang from The Missouri Harmony at her father's tavern in Illinois. Compilations such as The Missouri Harmony not only helped teach midwesterners to read music but also carried a uniquely American heritage of shaped notes, a system of musical notation that grew out of the singing school movement in eighteenth-century New England. Furthermore, this heritage would be, according to composer Virgil Thomson, ""the musical basis of almost everything we make, of Negro spirituals, of cowboy songs, of popular ballads, of blues, of hymns, of doggerel ditties, and all our operas and symphonies.
£26.36
Music Sales Traditional Slow Airs of Ireland
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£26.09
Bohlau Verlag Playing Multipart Music: Solo and Ensemble
Book SynopsisEuropean Voices IV presents new perspectives on two basic performance styles of traditional music of Europe: 1) Solo playing on single instruments with the possibility for multipart texture, for instance different bagpipes and bowed instruments. 2) Practices of playing in small ensembles with a leading role of the violin and later of wind instruments, widespread in Central and Eastern Europe. 14 renowned ethnomusicologists from eleven countries offer new insights on style, repertoire, ways of musical thinking and performance behaviour. Their studies are based on historical sources as well as of a vivid exchange with local musicians during in-depth ethnographic fieldwork.
£80.99
Harrassowitz Weil Es Ein Zierlich Vnd Lieblich Ja Nobilitiert
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£999.99
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Epic Folk Songs from Bosnia and Herzegovina: The
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£34.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from Prisoner-Of-War Camps, World War
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£29.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from Prisoner-Of-War Camps, World War
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£29.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from PrisonerOfWar Camps World War I
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£32.64
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from PrisonerOfWar Camps World War I
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£32.64
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from Prisoner-Of-War Camps, World War
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£29.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press International Forum on Audio-Visual Research -
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£44.00
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Recordings from Prisoner-Of-War Camps, World War
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£29.00
Gebruder Mann Verlag Los Archivos de Las (Etno)Musicologicas:
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£86.45
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Schwabe Verlag Nachklange. Instrumente Der Griechischen Klassik
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£71.93
Ergon Tradierte Musikpraxis in Franken: Beitrage Zur
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£22.50
Sevillanas
Book SynopsisEste libro es un viaje apasionado al corazón de las sevillanas, un género que late con la fuerza de la tradición andaluza y que ha tejido, a lo largo de los siglos, una historia de emociones, fe y arte. Feliciano Pérez-Vera Hernández nos invita a descubrir cómo estas coplas han sido testigo de amores, devociones y costumbres populares, desde su infancia en Hinojos hasta los escenarios más emblemáticos de la cultura flamenca.Con un estilo cercano y lleno de vivencias personales, el autor nos comparte anécdotas entrañables, el proceso creativo tras sus composiciones más icónicas y su lucha por preservar la esencia de un género que une generaciones. Además, el libro ofrece un homenaje a las figuras que marcaron el auge de las sevillanas y una reflexión sobre su transformación a lo largo del tiempo.
£26.44
Almuzara Paco Cepero
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£33.72
Almuzara Nueva Historia del Flamenco
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£31.65
Editorial Almuzara El flamenco en Mlaga historia y actualidad de
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£33.32
Libros del Kultrum Cash: La Autobiografía
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£14.93
NIAS Press I Will Send My Song: Kammu Vocal Genres in the
Book SynopsisToday, the Kammu are an upland people mainly found in Laos, Yunnan, Thailand, Burma and Vietnam. This people - who have retained their orally based culture through to the present day - provide an example of complex sung poetry that has seldom been studied in detail. What this volume offers is an ethnomusicological presentation of one person's vocal performance of rather highly varied sets of words in different manners of performance, and the use of these competences in communication with other singers. This orally transmitted form of singing is unique to the Kammu but is related to a much larger complex in Southeast Asia. It will thus be of interest to a wide group of musicologists.Table of ContentsFigures v ii Preface ix Kammu Pronunciation x Symbols and Abbreviations xi Prologue: A Departure 1 1. Introduction 3 2. Kam Raw - His Cultural and Musical Background 27 3. Vocal Genres Other Than For Feasts 47 4. Teem Performances 71 5. Elaborate Teem Performances 89 6. Nature Imagery and Meaning 121 7. Teem Dialogues 139 8. Concluding Discussion 163 Epilogue: A Return 177 Appendices: 1. Glossary of Kammu Terms and Names 181 2. Index of Kam Raw's Repertoire 185 3. Recordings and Samples 195 4. Song Transcriptions 201 5. Music Transcriptions 203 6. Contents of Compact Disc 219 Sources 223 References 223 Index 235
£30.27
