| Dawn Songs Contributor(s): Riley, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848615450 ISBN-13: 9781848615458 Publisher: Shearsman Books OUR PRICE: $21.85 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Ethnomusicology - Music | Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional |
| Physical Information: 0.44" H x 6" W x 9" (0.64 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dawn Songs consists of three essays on music. A short one on Derek Bailey as heard in 1970; a moderate-size one on surviving west gallery choral pieces performed in pubs of the Sheffield Moorlands area at Christmas, called 'Mass Lyric'; and 'Dawn Songs' itself, which concerns a lamentational genre of Transylvanian village music and forms the bulk of the book. So if ever there was a book discussing musical practices which very few people outside the area know about or want to, this is it. |
Contributor Bio(s): Riley, Peter: - Peter Riley was born into an environment of working people in the Manchester area in 1940 and now lives in retirement in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire. His most recent books are The Glacial Stairway (Carcanet Press, 2011) and Due North (Shearsman Books, 2015), a book-length poem which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, 2015. He regularly contributes reviews of new poetry to the website The Fortnightly Review, and a collection of these was issued in book form under the title The Fortnightly Reviews 2012-2014. |