"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...
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...
Marilyn Tucker
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Jan 4, 2005 10:22 am
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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 ...
Rod Stradling
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Jan 4, 2005 12:04 pm
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Yes I would be interested to review and I'm only down the road ... From: "Rod Stradling" <rod@...> To: <Tradsong@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday,...
peter
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Jan 4, 2005 3:06 pm
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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...
peter
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Jan 4, 2005 3:45 pm
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Hello All Thanks - the book now has a new home and a reviewer. Quick work, eh? All the very best .......... Rod rod@......
Rod Stradling
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Jan 4, 2005 8:21 pm
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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,...
Andy Rouse
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Jan 25, 2005 7:51 am
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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...
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...
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...
... 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...
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...
georgina@...
Feb 10, 2005 11:49 pm
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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...
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 ...
... 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...
"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...
... It's a long time since I mugged up on modes - I may well have muddled mi minors! J -- John Adams Programme Leader - BSc(Hons) Professional Broadcast...
... Malcolm's observation is correct - it is the Locrian (sp? never seen it written down!) mode. Chris Coe tells me that JK wrote it for fun after Bert Lloyd...
... According to John's liner notes, it is indeed in Locrian. Peace, Paul...
Paul Stamler
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Feb 21, 2005 4:48 pm
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... This is a fun one. Any ideas on phrygian, lydian & mixolydian? Or is there a web site I should look at instead of bothering you good people? I'm working...
... This is a fun one. Any ideas on phrygian, lydian & mixolydian? Or is there a web site I should look at instead of bothering you good people? John...
In the Introduction to "The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads" (Vol-1), Bronson provides a brief discussion of modes (pp. xxv-xxix). Additionally, he ...
