| Description |
1 online resource (xiv pages, 210 pages of music) : illustrations |
| Contents |
"CONTENTS"; "CONTRIBUTORS"; "PREFACE TO THE REPRINT (2003)"; "PREFACE"; "INTRODUCTION"; "ACKNOWLEDGMENTS"; "TRANSCRIBER'S NOTE"; "1 The Wreck of the Annie Roberts"; "2 The Annie Young"; "3 Arthur"; "4 Aspell and Carter"; "5 The August Gale (A and B)"; "6 The Banks of Sweet Dundee"; "7 Betsy Beauty"; "8 The Blow below the Belt"; "9 The Blue Wave"; "10 Bold Hawke"; "11 Bold Larkin"; "12 Bonny Blue-eyed Jane"; "13 Brave Marin"; "14 The Brule Boys"; "15 The Buck Goat Song"; "16 Caroline from Edinboro (Edinburgh) Town"; "17 Carroll Bán." |
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"18 The Champion of Court Hill" ; "19 Charming Blue-eyed Mary"; "20 Charming Sally Ann"; "21 Chrissey's Dick"; "22 The Wreck of the Christabel"; "23 Come and I Will Sing You"; "24 Common Sailors"; "25 Constant Farmer's Son"; "26 The Wreck of the Danny Goodwin"; "27 The Dark-eyed Sailor"; "28 Dark-eyed Susan"; "29 The Steamship Deane"; "30 The Dole Song"; "31 The Drunken Captain"; "32 The Ella M. Rudolph"; "33 The Elsie M. Hart"; "34 The Excel (A and B)"; "35 False Limkin"; "36 Fanny's Harbour Bawn"; "37 Fishing on the Labrador"; "38 The Florizel." |
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"39 The Gallant Brigantine"; "40 The General Rawlinson"; "41 George Alfred Beckett"; "42 The Gigantic"; "43 The Glen Alone"; "44 The Glenora"; "45 Grá Geal Mo Chroí"; "46 The Grand Falls Tragedy"; "47 The Green Mossy Banks of the Lea"; "48 Gull Cove"; "49 Heave Away!"; "50 The Herring"; "51 The Hoban Boys"; "52 The Hole in the Wall"; "53 The Huntingdown Shore"; "54 Hush-oh-bye Baby"; "55 In Memoriam"; "56 Jack the Sailor"; "57 The Jam on Gary's Rock"; "58 Jerry Ryan"; "59 Le Jeune Militaire"; "60 Jim Harris"; "61 Jimmy Whelan"; "62 John Barbour." |
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"63 Jolly Jack Tar"; "64 The Kate from Branch"; "65 The Leaving of Merasheen"; "66 The Liverpool Pilot"; "67 Lonely Waterloo"; "68 Lord Bateman (A and B)"; "69 Lovely Katie-o"; "70 The Maggie"; "71 The Maid of Newfoundland"; "72 The Schooner Marion Rogers"; "73 The Schooner Mary Ann"; "74 Maurice Grotty (A and B)"; "75 Maurice Hogan's Song"; "76 The McClure"; "77 Me Old Ragadoo"; "78 The Merchants"; "79 The Moonshine Informer"; "80 Mr Costler"; "81 Murphy in the Cupboard"; "82 My Dear, I'm Bound for Canaday (A and B)"; "83 My Good-looking Man." |
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"84 O'Reilly the Fisherman""85 The Old Smite"; "86 The Penny Fair"; "87 The Petty Harbour Bait Skiff"; "88 Pretty Caroline"; "89 Pretty Polly"; "90 The Prison of Newfoundland"; "91 The Quiet Village Tilting"; "92 The Ravenal"; "93 The Red Rocks of Bell Isle"; "94 The Wreck of the Riseover"; "95 A Sailor Courted"; "96 Siúl a Ghrá"; "97 Skipper Dan"; "98 The Loss of the Snorre"; "99 Soup Supper in Clattice Harbour"; "100 South Carolina State"; "101 The Southern Cross"; "102 The Spanish Captain"; "103 The Susan"; "104 The Sweet Town of Anthony." |
| Summary |
Newfoundlanders have long and lustily sung their folksongs, and the tradition remains strong today. Despite modern influences, the old songs persist, mixed with new songs that are composed to record the events of our time. This is the first major collection of Newfoundland folksongs compiled and edited by native Newfoundlanders. It concentrates on songs of local composition largely ignored by earlier collectors and presents a significant number of songs never before published.For most of the last decade Lehr and Best have been travelling around the island recording the voices and favourite songs of anyone, young and old, who would perform. Recordings took place in family kitchens, on stage heads, and in trap stores while the singer knitted twine or repaired lobster pots, aboard ships at anchor or en route to some small deserted harbour. Humming engines, blowing oilstoves, or clattering supper dishes provided accompaniment.The 120 songs collected here by Lehr and Best have been transcribed by Pamela Morgan and illustrated by Elly Cohen. Some recall the distant past of a long and rich seafaring tradition; others tell of such recent tragedies as the displacement of outport people and the sinking of the Ocean Ranger. The selection represents the state of the folk-song in Newfoundland today; in some part it documents what is lost and forgotten, but it also celebrates what has survived, and thrives |
| Notes |
Co-published in Atlantic Provinces by Breakwater Books |
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Includes explanatory texts and index |
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Compilers Canadian |
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Transcriptions by Pamela Morgan |
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Unacc. melodies |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-208) |
| Notes |
Words mainly in English, some in French and Irish, and also printed as text |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Folk songs, English -- Newfoundland and Labrador
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MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- General.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Band & Orchestra.
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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Folk songs, English
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Volkslied
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Newfoundland Insel
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Morgan, Pamela
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Lehr, Genevieve, 1956-
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Best, Anita, 1948-
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| ISBN |
9781442673120 |
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1442673125 |
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