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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| 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 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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