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English Folk Guitar Book 1
Michael Raven
Off the record transcriptions of 44 songs and guitar solos in tablature and staff notation including:
Canadee 1-0 Nic Jones
Glorishears Martin Carthy
Spanish Morris Mike Raven
Naked Highwayman Steve Tilston
Bransle Gay John Renbourne
Edited by Michael Raven
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English Folk Guitar Book 2
Michael Raven
Most of the guitar arrangements in this book are based on playing the tune, using various styles and techniques. The great advantage of this is that the tune is not forced into inappropriate rhythms or harmonic patterns. To use them as accompaniments a useful device is to learn the solo arrangement and then to simplify it by omitting some notes, even whole bars, or playing just the bass line in some places. This is the essence of the style developed by Martin Carthy as he expounds it at workshops, and is to be heard on much of his recorded work.
Soundtrack included.
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John O'Barbary
Michael Raven
A selection of British folk music as performed by leading performers. The contents include many little known ballads, songs and dance tunes together with material performed by Nic Jones, June Tabor, The Chieftains, Silly Wizard, The Bothy Band and Reynardine.
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Songs and Dances of England
Liz Thomson
A collection of songs from England's rich musical heritage. Each song is complete with full lyrics, chord symbols and guitar chord diagrams. Includes The Vicar of Brae, Maggie May, Give Me the Punch Ladle and All Around My Hat.
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A Book of British Ballads
Roy Palmer
This book by Roy Palmer includes traditional ballads, street ballads, ballads of the music hall and of today. It contais over 120 ballads from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales and includes dsome of the most beautiful love lyrics of the English language, cautionary tales more likely to encourage vice than to stamp it out, strange stories and wise comments on sex, courtship and marriage.
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Bushes and Briars
Roy Palmer
A selection of over 120 folk songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, edited by Roy Palmer. Each song is preceded by a most illuminating and deeply researched acount of the song's origins, mentioning other versions. There is a full list of sources and notes, scholarly and accurate and also highly readable for all sorts of diverting asides.
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A Garland of Country Songs
S. Baring Gould and H. Fleetwood Sheppard
A book of fifty English folk songs with their traditional melodies collected and arranged by Sabine Baring Gould and Henry Fleetwood Sheppard, first published in 1894.
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Traditional Tunes
Frank Kidson
Despite the title this is a book of songs. Published in 1891 in an edition of only 200 copies, Frank Kidson's volume of Traditional Tunes assured his place in history as one of the pioneers of song collection from the English oral tradition. His independant efforts anticipated both the foundation of the Folk Song Society and the development of the wider folk movement.
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Old English Songs from English Minstrelsie
Sabine Baring Gould
A collection of old English songs, forty nine in total, taken from the eight volume works entitled English Minstrelsie by Sabine Baring Gould, together with a comprehensive and well illustrated historical introduction to English national song. First published in 1895.
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Singing Hinnies Vol. 1
Derek Hobbs
This book, edited by Derek Hobbs is a collection of twenty of the best known North Country songs, all with straight forward piano accompaniments. The aim has been to present the best loved songs in the most useful and accessible way. Optional second parts are given for those who wish to sing in two parts and guitar chords are provided.
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Singing Hinnies Vol. 2
Derek Hobbs
Another twenty four favourite songs from the north east of England.
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The Vin Garbutt Songbook
Vin Garbutt
Vin Garbutt is a singer and songwriter who has been travelling the world since 1969. With his own brand of off the wall humour and his passionate and emotive songs he weaves a spell over his audiences leaving them with a night to remember, like no other. Vin has been described as "the funniest and most serious man on the folk scene". Here within these pages you will find the serious man.
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The Mellstock Carols
Dave Townsend
West gallery carols from Thomas Hardy’s family and other Wessex sources. “West Gallery Music” and “Country Psalmody” are names that have been given to the harmony singing tradition that flourished in rural English parish churches from the early 1700s until the mid nineteenth-century.
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The Alan Bell Song Book
Alan Bell
Alan Bell is one of the great untiring stalwarts of the English folk scene. He has been singing and writing folk songs since the early 50s. He writes great songs. Bread and Fishes has been a well established folk standard for many years is in this book. Soundtrack available.
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In My Homeland
Alan Bell
Another great collection of songs from the pen of Alan Bell. Between singing and composing Alan organises Fylde Folk Festival where he is director and founder. In conjunction with this book he has produced a wonderful CD with guest supporting artists. Soundtrack available.
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In My Homeland CD
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West Midlands' Ballads
Michael Raven
A collection of 171 songs from medieval times to today that have either words or tunes from the local aural-folk tradition or relate to people or places of historical interest within the region, or were written by authors and composers resident in the area, which includes, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire and the Birmingham-Black Country conurbation. The ballads are profusely illustrated with a variety of carefully chosen engravings and photographs and each has an informative note and full details of the source of each piece.
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Blyth Voices
Ralph Vaughan Williams
In 1910 the English composer Ralph Vaughan Wiilliams and his colleague George Butterworth visited Southwold on the Suffolk coast to note down folk songs from some of the town’s inhabitants. Some of the songs have rarely been heard since. This book contains the complete collection, giving a unique sense of time and place.
Photographs and biographical details add to our understanding of the people who sang these songs and an introduction and notes provide further information on Vaughan Williams and the songs themselves.
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Northumbrian Minstrelsy
J. Collingwood Bruce and John Stokoe
This book, edited by J. Collingwood Bruce and John Stokoe, is a collection of ballads, melodies and small-pipe tunes of Northumbria. It was first published by the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in 1882. There are lots of notes to the songs and tunes.
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Songwriting CDR Video
Linda Dunn and Robert Horne
"Sweet, enchanting and utterly captivating work" is what Songwriters Monthly had to say about the music of Linda Dunn & Robert Horne. Now this well traveled duo shares their experience in this exciting video workshop. In a series of lighthearted discussions Robert & Linda discuss the creative process, music theory, using your guitar as a songwriting tool and much more. A great video for anyone who ever wanted to write a song.
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