Ballads and songs of Indiana,

Some of the songs have unaccompanied melodies.

White spirituals in the southern uplands; the story of the fasola folk, their songs, singings, and "buckwheat notes,"

Includes music.

Gems of Highland song : with the original Gaelic words, and a translation into English /

Imprint covered by label of Bruce, Clements & Co., Edinburgh.

The ballad literature and popular music of the olden time : a history of the ancient songs, ballads, and of the dance tunes of England, with numerous anecdotes and entire ballads; also, a short account of the minstrels /

An expansion of his Collection of national English airs, pub. in 1838-40. Recast by H. E. Wooldridge and pub. in 1893 as Old English popular music.

Songs and hymns of the Gael : with translations and music and an introduction /

Unacc. melodies in staff and tonic sol-fa notations.

Political poems and songs relating to English history, composed during the period from the accession of Edw. III. to that of Ric.

Mode of access: Internet.

The British muse : a choice collection of English, Scotch, and Irish songs, by the best authors: to which are added some originals.

Issued in printed paper wrappers.

Christmas and New Year songs. [music] /

"Reprinted from the first and second volumes of Folk songs of many peoples."

The Universal songster: or, Museum of mirth : forming the most complete, extensive, and valuable collection of ancient and modern songs in the English language, with a copious and classified index /

Added engraved title-pages.

The Cambrian wreath; a selection of English poems on Welsh subjects, original and translated from the Cambro-British, historic and legendary, including Welsh melodies:

The songs are without the music; the tunes indicated by title.

Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces of our earlier poets, together with some few of later date.

With an Essay on the ancient minstrels in England (v. 1, p. xx-ci) and On the ancient metrical romances (v. 2, p. 1-33)

The vocal gleaner, and universal melodist, containing a selection of the best songs, duets, glees, &c. in the English language, particularly those of C. Dibdin, Burns, Byron, &c. as sung at the royal and minor theatres, public and private concerts, &c.

Mode of access: Internet.

Echoes from Moravia = Klänge aus Mähren : op. 32 : thirteen two-part songs for soprano and alto, with pianoforte accompaniment /

Label mounted on t. p. reads: English translations by Th. Baker.

Ontologies for representation of folk song metadata

The digital management of collections in museums, archives, libraries and galleries is an increasingly important part of cultural heritage studies. This paper describes a representation for folk song metadata, based on the Web Ontology Language (OWL) implementation of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model. The OWL representation facilitates encoding and reasoning over a genre ontology, while the CIDOC model enables a representation of complex spatial containment and proximity relations among geographic regions. It is shown how complex queries of folk song metadata, relying on inference and not only retrieval, can be expressed in OWL and solved using a description logic reasoner.

LUCIANO BERIO’S NATURALE: A STORY COMBINING FOLK MUSIC AND ART MUSIC

The study of a score by a serious performer is a fundamental step in the process of arriving at a knowledgeable and deeply informed approach to performing a piece of music. In order to obtain this knowledge numerous aspects of the score must be taken into consideration. It is the intent of this dissertation to gather and analyze the information concerning Naturale, a work written by Luciano Berio in 1985 for viola, percussion and recorded voice, based on Sicilian folk songs. All the aspects surrounding Naturale’s existence are taken into consideration in this study. First, it is important to reflect on Berio’s compositional style and traits, the manner in which he relates his works one to another, what he sees in folk music and his own personal desire to intertwine art music and folk music. For Berio Naturale is not an isolated venture into the realm of mixing folk music and his own avant-garde style; it is instead one of many works resulting from his long-standing relationship with folk music. Another essential aspect in this case is the study of Sicilian folk music itself, and the sources used by Berio to find the songs by which he was inspired. The work is examined section by section with figures showing both excerpts of Naturale as well as the original songs with their translations. An analysis containing harmonic, thematic and formal aspects of the score was developed in order to arrive at a better understanding of the structure and pacing of the piece. For this research the author went to Italy to conduct an interview with Maestro Aldo Bennici, the Sicilian violist for whom Naturale was composed. This interview helped in the discovery of two more songs used by Berio that have not to this point been identified in any other document. Bennici’s outstanding testimony portrayed the expressive character of this music and the evocative imagery behind this score. I hope to bring this knowledge to other performers, that they may fully understand and appreciate the unique beauty and power of Berio’s Naturale.