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Bitter ballads : ancient and modern poetry sung to medieval and traditional melodies.

Title
Bitter ballads : ancient and modern poetry sung to medieval and traditional melodies.
Publication
  • Los Angeles : Harmonia Mundi, [1998]
  • ℗1998

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Hillier, Paul
  • Lawrence-King, Andrew
Description
1 online resource (1 sound file)
Subject
  • Ballads, English
  • English poetry > Musical settings
  • Songs with harp
  • Songs with psaltery
  • Harp music, Arranged
  • English poetry
Genre/Form
  • Streaming audio.
  • Musical settings.
Note
  • For voice with harp or psaltery, and for harp.
Language (note)
  • Sung in English.
Contents
Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged / Jonathan Swift -- The roundhead / Samuel Butler -- London is a fine town / anonymous -- London / William Blake -- The fine old English gentleman / Charles Dickens -- The great testament / Villon ; Lowell -- Highland dance #1 : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- Kiltory / Helen Adam -- Highland dance #2 : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- Shallow-water warning ; Song for a sea tower / Helen Adam -- The ballad of Marie Farrar / Bertolt Brecht -- Senza licenza : (harp solo) ; Invention : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- Fine flowers in the valley / trad. ; [music by] Howard Skempton -- Sappho : fragment / Sappho ; Lowell -- The keel row I : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- It was summer now / Gertrude Stein -- The keel row II : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- Disillusionment / Gertrude Stein -- The cockfight : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton -- Sailing to Byzantium / W.B. Yeats -- Brigg fair : (harp solo) / [music] traditional -- "Coda" : from Briggflatts / Basil Bunting.
LCCN
  • USHM19620401
  • USHM19620402
  • USHM19620403
  • USHM19620404
  • USHM19620405
  • USHM19620406
  • USHM19620407
  • USHM19620409
  • USHM19620408
  • USHM19620410
  • USHM19620411
  • USHM19620412
  • USHM19620413
  • USHM19620414
  • USHM19620415
  • USHM19620416
  • USHM19620417
  • USHM19620418
  • USHM19620419
  • USHM19620420
  • USHM19620421
  • USHM19620422
  • USHM19620423
  • USHM19620424
OCLC
1043762460
Title
Bitter ballads : ancient and modern poetry sung to medieval and traditional melodies.
Publisher
Los Angeles : Harmonia Mundi, [1998]
Copyright Date
℗1998
Type of Content
performed music
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Performer
Paul Hillier, vocals ; Andrew Lawrence-King, harp or psaltery.
Event
Recorded 1996 April 6 and 1997 June 11-13 Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, CA.
Language
Sung in English.
Source of description
Hard copy version record.
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Added Author
Hillier, Paul, singer.
Lawrence-King, Andrew, instrumentalist.
Other Form:
Source record: Hillier, Paul. Bitter ballads. Los Angeles : Harmonia Mundi France, ℗1998 (DLC) 2001569602 (OCoLC)40932141
Other Standard Identifier
USHM19620401
USHM19620402
USHM19620403
USHM19620404
USHM19620405
USHM19620406
USHM19620407
USHM19620409
USHM19620408
USHM19620410
USHM19620411
USHM19620412
USHM19620413
USHM19620414
USHM19620415
USHM19620416
USHM19620417
USHM19620418
USHM19620419
USHM19620420
USHM19620421
USHM19620422
USHM19620423
USHM19620424
Publisher No.
HMU907204DI Harmonia Mundi
Branch Call Number
eNYPL Music
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