| The Chime Child: or Somerset Singers Being An Account of Some of Them and Their Songs Collected Over Sixty Years Contributor(s): Tongue, Ruth L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138122327 ISBN-13: 9781138122321 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $52.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Religious - General - Social Science | Media Studies |
| Dewey: 781.742 |
| Series: Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music |
| Physical Information: 0.24" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.38 lbs) 102 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in 1968. The author, a well-known contemporary and friend of folklorist Katharine M. Briggs, collected a tremendous store of folk music material over many years and eventually decided to put some of it on permanent record. This book comprises a cross-section of rescued melodies dating back to medieval days and up to the Victorian early ballads. It describes individual folk singers in Somerset in great detail as personal accounts and documents their lyrics and their tunes, which are all together at the end of the volume. |