Hi Lewis and fellow Tradsongers, The recording of Queen Victoria was played on Radio 4 about a week ago and I have to say that the sound was pretty appalling....
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soundofcd
Dec 15, 2004 8:21 pm
Good People All, Since posting the message below, I have had a most gratifying response from various members of this group. In truth, I've received more emails...
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Paul Stamler
pstamler@...
Dec 15, 2004 8:38 pm
... From: <Fredamhran@...> <<For that matter, with a low-fi recording, would it be possible to predict what the map would look like had the original...
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Cliff Abrams
cliffabrams
Dec 15, 2004 10:20 pm
I almost forgot. I neatened up the list of missing LPs and will send a PDF file to anyone who asks. CA...
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Gwilym Davies
tradsinger2004
Dec 19, 2004 10:12 am
I wonder if one function of this newsgroup can be to tip members off about forthcoming radion or TV programmes on folk music? Does anyone know of any such...
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Fredamhran@...
soundofcd
Dec 19, 2004 6:28 pm
Hi Gwilym, I'd been meaning to post this anyway, and your email fired me into action. Thursday 30 December, BBC 4 is given over to an evening of old time...
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Derek Schofield
jamesdereksc...
Dec 20, 2004 12:51 am
BBC R4, Xmas Day, 8pm, documentary of the Sing Christmas radio show, broadcast Xmas Day 1957, with Lomax, MacColl, Tawney, Seamus Ennis, Reg hall, Shirley...
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peter
peter@...
Dec 21, 2004 2:33 pm
Gwilym - I have taken part in a Radio 4 programme to be transmitted on Christmas Day at 20.00 hours. It conmtains extracts of the Lomax Round-up before the...
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hwood50@...
aheatherwood
Dec 22, 2004 12:37 pm
From Paul Stamler in St Louis MO, pstamler@...: Hi folks: This was the Christmas show. I usually concentrate on traditional songs and carols, mostly...
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Steve Roud
stephen538529
Jan 2, 2005 8:37 pm
"LIFE & TIMES" Saturday 19th February 2005 10am-5pm at Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 2AY A chance to hear four people who have made...
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Marilyn Tucker
marilyn@...
Jan 4, 2005 10:22 am
Hi everyone, happy new year & Wassail! I am now back at my desk after three months off - I will not attempt to catch up on what's been going on during my...
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Rod Stradling
rod@...
Jan 4, 2005 12:04 pm
Hello All I wonder if anyone is able to / willing to write a review of a book on ballads for Musical Traditions? I was going to try it myself, but I soon ...
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peter
peter@...
Jan 4, 2005 3:06 pm
Yes I would be interested to review and I'm only down the road ... From: "Rod Stradling" <rod@...> To: <Tradsong@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday,...
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peter
peter@...
Jan 4, 2005 3:45 pm
Happy New Year to you too. Congrats at being "back at youir desk". Where is this by the way? I told Martin that we would like to see the Baring Gould material...
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Rod Stradling
rod@...
Jan 4, 2005 8:21 pm
Hello All Thanks - the book now has a new home and a reviewer. Quick work, eh? All the very best .......... Rod rod@......
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Bill McCarthy
wbm3@...
Jan 5, 2005 3:03 pm
Rod, I would be quite interested in reviewing that book if you haven't contracted with someone else already. It's up my alley, and I've glanced over it...
Here's a whimsical one. Is there any good reason why I should feel that the medieval lyric with the refrain "How! butler, how! Bevis a tout! Fill the boll,...
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Jerome Epstein
jerepst
Jan 26, 2005 3:59 am
I think there are a great many such lyrics over spans of centuries. I confess to being extremely dubious of any direct connection. Part of this is that I...
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Martin Graebe
martin_graebe
Feb 7, 2005 9:33 pm
Jim I was planning to append your note to the TSF newsletter but, unfortunately, the formatting is detroyed somewhere between your e-mail and mine. If you can...
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jmoul81075@...
john_moulden
Feb 8, 2005 12:46 pm
This is partly, if not largely, to reinvent the wheel - a great deal of work was done by a conference on the matter some several years ago and DK Wilgus...
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chris coe
chris_coe2
Feb 10, 2005 1:29 pm
Sorry...sent to wrong address! Note: forwarded message attached. ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new...
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stephen_r1937
Feb 10, 2005 11:30 pm
... How does he do it? I can't imagine where he finds the time and energy to compile the indexes to begin with, and now to add motifs . . . . But it's a great...
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georgina@...
Feb 10, 2005 11:49 pm
I know obscure European volumes are difficult to get hold of, but as has already been suggested, we are in danger of spending a lot of time and energy...
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jmoul81075@...
john_moulden
Feb 12, 2005 12:50 pm
Thanks to Georgina for giving the details which I, being away from home, could not supply. I think though there may be another paper, reissued by the John...
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jmoul81075@...
john_moulden
Feb 14, 2005 12:33 pm
The most readily available works discussing this topic are the two below. The first is reported to have been in print in late 2003 - inquiries to ...
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stephen_r1937
Feb 14, 2005 8:12 pm
... <snip> ... American" in the ... include ... arguably ... Now we need to get Roger Renwick to Ireland for a similar symposium . . . . Stephen...
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Jan-Ellen Harriman
jan4ellen
Feb 21, 2005 12:29 am
I am trying to describe the modes to the non-musical. I thought if I could find a commonly known melody in each of the modes it would be an aural description ...
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John Adams
adelphiuk
Feb 21, 2005 12:40 am
... As I remember, John Kirkpatrick wrote "The Grave Digger's Song" specifically to exploit the phrygian mode. He couldn't find a commonly known melody and so...
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hwood50@...
aheatherwood
Feb 21, 2005 2:58 am
"Marie's Wedding" is pentatonic (trip we gaily as we go Heel for heel and toe for toe, Arm in arm and row on row All for Marie's wedding" ... pentatonic = can...
