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Folk music of Britain - and beyond [by] Frank Howes.

Title: Folk music of Britain - and beyond [by] Frank Howes.
Author: Howes, Frank, 1891-1974
Publication: [London] Methuen [1969]

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Description

xvii, 307 p. music.; 23 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. The name and nature of folk-song -- 2. Technicalities : monody, modality, ornamentation, polyphony -- 3. Ethnology and nationalism -- 4. National idioms and instruments -- 5. History of the English revival -- 6. Ballads -- 7. English folk-melody (1) Oral, broadside, industrial -- 8. English folk-melody (2) Functional -- 9. The fringes : Norse and Celtic -- 10. Scholarship related problems : classification, editing and arranging, the study of ballads.

ISBN

0416117104

LCCN

^^^79470836^/MN/r84

OCLC

79304
SCSB-10356864

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library