A team of researchers from Japan, the U.K. and New Zealand has found that despite language differences, Japanese and English folk songs have similar cross-cultural regularities in their musical ...

Folk Song in England. By Steve Roud. Faber & Faber; 764 pages; £25. To be published in America in September; $29.95. ENGLAND, the Germans used to jeer, was “the land without music”. They were wrong, ...

Carthy wears his considerable history lightly. His album was reflective without being nostalgic or complacent, building on a lifetime’s commitment to the performance and interpretation of traditional ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

IN a remarkable and famous passage in Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Browne says, “ There is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion ; and thus far we may maintain the ‘music of the ...

From 1916–1918, folk song collector Cecil Sharp traveled to remote regions of southern Appalachia in search of old English folk songs. A century later, with help from the English Folk Dance and Song ...

13 January 1953: The Folk Dance and Song Society are to collaborate on a BBC project to make sound recordings throughout the British Isles for a permanent archive Fleet Street, Monday After many weeks ...

Rachel and Becky Unthank (yes, that's their given name) grew up living and breathing folk music in England's Northumberland County -- their parents, both singers, were active performers, and as the ...

For the last 15 years, English folk musician Olivia Chaney has done a little bit of everything. She performed as a vocalist with the electronic-pop group Zero 7, and alongside the acclaimed Kronos ...

My new play Folk focuses on two Somerset sisters whose – uncredited – recall of traditional songs helped Cecil Sharp save the music from extinction. It’s an ambivalent legacy My play began in a flash ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

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