Ethel Bassin

The Old Songs of Skye (eBook, ePUB)

Frances Tolmie and Her Circle
Redaktion: Bowman, Derek

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1977. Frances Tolmie (1840-1926) was one of the foremost Gaelic folklore and folksong experts. This account of her life and work places her unique contribution to human song against a full personal, historical and cultural background. The book includes a selection of the songs she heard and wrote down, together with the part they played in her life and that of her circle and the larger community.

Moving in a variety of circles, Frances Tolmie experienced the warm domesticity of an enlightened Skye manse, the cultural bustle of upper middle-class Edinburgh 'entrepreneurs', the romantic serious-mindedness of the first Cambridge women students, the sensitive nature-loving community round Ruskin at Coniston, and spent her later sociable years back in Scotland. This book, with its historical introduction by Flora MacLeod and musical introduction by Frank Howes along with Ethel Bassin's own detailed introduction, reflects her profound study of the song and folklore of her people, and describes how she recorded a precious part of British traditional culture, catching it alive and sharing it as truly as possible.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317311133
• Artikelnr.: 44474300

Autorenporträt

Ethel Bassin, well-known teacher and music festival organizer, spent her childhood in Edinburgh, and taught in Portree before going to Canada to lecture in the University of British Columbia on music methods. While there she wrote a number of playlets with English dialogue and Gaelic songs, which she produced at festivals. She then went to London to edit Rural Music, and returned in 1939 to the Hebrides, where she collected folksongs. Later she became Music Teacher at Dingwall Academy in Ross-shire and was still revising this book at the time of her death in 1974.

Inhaltsangabe

Historical Foreword Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod Musical Foreword Frank Howes Introduction 1. Uiginish
Skye
1840-4 2. Rudha an Dunain
Strontian
Bracadale
1845-57 3. Edinburgh
1857-8 4. Bracadale
1858-62 5. Edinburgh
1862-6 6. Portree
Nairn
North Uist
Contin
1866-73 7. Cambridge
1873-4 8. Coniston
1874-95 9. Oban
1895-1900 10. Oban
Edinburgh
1900-7 11. Edinburgh
1908-11: The Folk-Song Society 12. Edinburgh
1907-15 13. Songs of the Hebrides 14. Dunvegan
1915-26 15. Conclusion. Notes. Appendices A. Chronological Tables of the songs in the Journal of the Folk Song Society vol. iv
no. 16
London
December 1911 B. Songs which Frances Tolmie gave to Marjory Kennedy-Fraser C. Different Versions of A' Bhean Eudach D. Remminiscences of Miss Frances Tolmie E. Frances Tolmie's story
'Oirig and Gormul'. Index of Song Titles. Index to Persons