IN a remarkable and famous passage in Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Browne says, “ There is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion ; and thus far we may maintain the ‘music of the ...

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...

ROB HARBRON: The interplay, the handing stuff over to the other player. We’ve never agreed a chord, they just seem to fit. No one has a fixed part. And without any discussion it seems to work straight ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

For the last 15 years, English folk musician Olivia Chaney has done a little bit of everything. She performed as a vocalist with the electronic-pop group Zero 7, and alongside the acclaimed Kronos ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information The English Folk Dance and Song Society was formed in 1932 by the merger of two organizations, the Folk-Song Society, and the ...

The songs that Shirley Collins sings have been handed down over centuries and traveled across oceans. And now at age 85, the woman who has been called the first lady of English folk music has a new ...

Elizabethan songs. Man is for the woman made ; Come again, sweet love doth now invite ; Never weather-beaten saile ; I care not for these ladies ; Willow song ; The cypress curtaine of the night ; ...

IT is only in recent years that with the active collection and study of European folk-lore the folksong and folk-dance have begun to receive the attention which they deserve. The collecting of English ...