English Folk-Song and Dance
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS London: FETTER LANE, E.C. C. F. CLAY, Manager
Edinburgh: 100 PRINCES STREET Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., Ltd. Toronto: J. M. DENT & SONS, Ltd. Tokyo: THE MARUZEN KABUSHIKI-KAISHA
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ENGLISH FOLK-SONG AND DANCE
BY FRANK KIDSON AND MARY NEAL
Cambridge:
at the University Press 1915
BY FRANK KIDSON
NOTE
I am indebted to Miss Lucy E. Broadwood for permission to use a folk-tune of her collecting, and for many helpful suggestions.
Frank Kidson
Mary Neal
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
I. DEFINITION
II. THE ORIGIN OF FOLK-SONG
III. THE CANTE-FABLE
VIII. THE NOTING OF FOLK-MUSIC
X. THE NARRATIVE BALLAD
XI. LOVE SONGS AND MYSTIC SONGS
XII. THE PASTORAL
XV. SOLDIER SONGS
XVI. SEA SONGS
XVII. PRESSGANG SONGS
XVIII. HUNTING AND SPORTING SONGS
XIX. SONGS OF LABOUR
XX. TRADITIONAL CAROLS
XXI. CHILDREN’S SINGING-GAMES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ENGLISH FOLK-DANCE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
I. THE MORRIS DANCE TO-DAY
II. TUNES
III. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
IV. THE DRESS
V. EXTRA CHARACTERS
VI. THE SWORD DANCE
VII. THE FURRY DANCE
VIII. THE COUNTRY DANCE
X. CONCLUSIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
