Folk songs of old New England, collected and edited by Eloise Hubbard Linscott ; with an introduction by James M. Carpenter

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Folk songs of old New England, collected and edited by Eloise Hubbard Linscott ; with an introduction by James M. Carpenter

Statement of responsibility

collected and edited by Eloise Hubbard Linscott ; with an introduction by James M. Carpenter

Instantiates

• Folk songs of old New England

Publication

• Hamden Conn., Archon Books, 1962

Note

Includes children's singing songs with directions for movement, country dances, sea chanteys, folk songs and ballads

Bar code

• 31223003177582
• 31223032681174

Bibliography note

References: p. 319-337

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

notated music

Content type code

• ntm

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• Singing games. Counting out -- Did you ever see a lassie? -- The farmer in the dell -- Go in and out the windows -- Green gravel -- Green grows the rushes, oh! -- Here come three dukes a-riding -- Here stands an old maid forsaken -- Here we go gathering nuts in May -- How many miles to London town? -- I am a rich widow -- I'll give you a paper of pins -- I put my little hand in --- Jennia Jones -- King's land -- Lazy Mary -- London Bridge -- Lucy Locket -- Mulb'ry bush [mulberry bush] -- My fairey and my forey -- The needle's eye -- Old woman all skin and bone -- On the green carpet -- Poor Mary sits a-weeping -- Ring around o'rosies -- Shall I show you how the farmer? -- The twelve days of Christmas -- Water, water, wild flower --
• The country dance. Glossary of dance terms -- Formations -- Dance steps -- Calls for the prompter -- Bonaparte crossing the Rhine (march) -- Boston fancy, or, Lady Walpole's reel -- Chorus jig -- Devil's dream -- The Duchess -- Fishers' hornpipe -- French four -- The girl I left behind me -- Grand march, followed by Sicilian circle -- Green Mountain volunteers -- Haymaker's jig -- High, Betty Martin -- Hull's victory -- Lady of the lake -- The London lanciers -- Maid in the pump room -- The merry dance -- Miss Brown's reel -- Money musk -- Morning star -- Ninepin quadrille, or, The cheat -- Old Zip Coon -- Petronella -- Plain quadrille -- Pop! goes the weasel -- Portland fancy -- Soldier's joy -- Steamboat quickstep -- The tempest -- Twin sisters -- Virginia reel -- The waltz -- The white cockage --
• Sea chanteys and fo'castle songs. Amsterdam -- Blow, blow, blow! -- Blow the man down -- Captain Kidd -- The dead horse -- The gallant victory, or, Lowlands low -- Haul away, Joe! -- Haul the bowline -- Homeward bound -- Johnny Boker -- A long time ago -- Old horse -- Reuben Renzo -- Rio Grande -- Shenandoah, or, The wide Missouri -- Tommy's gone to Hilo -- Whisky Johnnie --
• Ballads, folk songs, and ditties. All bound 'round with a wollen string -- Away down east -- The bailiff's daughter of Islington -- Barb'ry Ellen, or, Barbara Allen -- A bear went over the mountain -- Billy boy -- Bingo -- Blow, ye winds, blow, or, The elfin knight -- Bold Dickie -- The Brookfield murder -- The bunnit of straw -- The butcher boy -- Canaday-I-O -- Caroline of Edinboro town -- The carrion crow -- Common Bill -- The devil and the farmer's wife -- Dirante, my son, or, Lord Randall -- Fair Rosamond, or, Rosamond's downfall -- The Farmington Canal song -- Fiddle dee dee -- First families of Fall River -- A frog he would a-wooing go -- A fox went out on a starry night -- Frog in the well -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- Gypsy Daisy -- Here we go up -- I had a little nut tree -- I'll not marry at all -- In good old colony times -- Jack Haggerty, or, The Flat River girl -- The jam on Gerry's rocks -- The jolly miller -- Jolly old Roger -- Julia Grover -- Katy cruel -- The ladle song -- Lavender's blue -- Let's go to the woods, or, The hunting of the wren -- Lord Lovell -- The lumberman's alphabet -- Maple sweet -- The mill -- The monkey's wedding -- My grandmother lived on yonder little green -- The ocean burial -- The old man who lived in the wood -- Old pod-auger times -- The old sow song -- The old woman in Dover -- The old woman who went to market -- Our goodman -- Over the water to Charlie -- The oxen song -- Perriee, Merrie, Dixi, Domini -- Peter Emily -- Polly Oliver -- Polly Van -- The quaker's wooing -- The rolling of the stones, or, The Twa brothers -- The sawmill song -- Scotland's burning, and Three blind mice -- A ship a-sailing -- Springfield Mountain, or, The black sarpent -- Sweet Kitty Clover -- Three children sliding on the ice -- Three crows -- Three jovial huntsmen -- Tittery Nan -- Too-ri-te-too -- Tyburn Hill -- Washing day -- Will you wear red?, or, Jennie Jenkins -- Wilikins and his Dinah -- Young Alanthia -- Young Charlotte -- Appendix. The singers -- Fiddlers and prompters

Dimensions

23 cm

Edition

2d ed.

Extent

1 close score (xxiii, 344 p.)

Lccn

62051281

Media category

unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

Record ID

• 1161969
• 1161969

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985960846