English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams

English Folk Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams

A collection of songs that tells the pleasures and pains of love, the patterns of the countryside and the lives of ordinary people. It includes unfaithful soldiers, ghostly lovers, whalers on stormy seas, cuckolds and tricksters.

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) was one of England's greatest composers, and among the first people to travel the countryside to collect folk songs and preserve them for future generations. A. L. Lloyd (1908-1982), usually known as Bert, was a folk singer and folklorist who grew up listening to his mother singing gypsy songs, and eventually wrote them down. Together with Vaughan Williams, he helped rescue traditional English music from extinction.

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ISBN 13	9780141190921
ISBN 10	0141190922
Title	English Folk Songs
Author	Ralph Vaughan Williams
Series	Penguin English Journeys
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Books Ltd
Year published	2009-04-02
Number of pages	160
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