English Folk Music
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The composer Ralph Vaughan Williams was one of the musicians who participated in the first English Folk Song revival, as well as using folk song tunes in his compositions. He collected his first song, Bushes and Briars, from Mr Charles Pottipher, a seventy-year-old labourer from Ingrave, Essex in 1903, and went on to collect over 800 songs, as well as some singing games and dance tunes. For 10 years he devoted up to 30 days a year to collecting folk songs from singers in 21 English counties, though Essex, Norfolk, Herefordshire and Sussex account for over two thirds of the songs in his collection. He recorded a small number of songs using a phonograph but the vast majority were recorded by hand. He was a regular contributor to the Folk Song Society's Journal, a member of the society's committee from 1904 to 1946, and when in that year the society amalgamated with the English Folk Dance Society he became president of the English Folk Dance and Song Society, a position he held until his death.
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English Folk Music - R. Vaughan Williams
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS 1
English Folk-Songs 3
1. BUSHES AND BRIARS (Essex). 5
2A. THE MILLER OF THE DEE.—18th century version. 6
2B. THE MILLER OF THE DEE.—Traditional version (Sussex). 7
3. THIS IS THE TRUTH (Herefordshire). 13
ENGLISH FOLK-SONGS
BY
R. VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
English Folk-Songs{1}
THE study of English folk-song is of comparatively recent origin. For years musicians and scientists, while fully recognizing the existence of traditional music in every foreign country, and even in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, denied, for some inexplicable reason, there being any in England.
How it could be imagined that it was of the slightest use to practise the art of music in a country where its very foundations were absent, passes my understanding; about this I shall have more to say later on. I suppose it was considered that we were an unmusical nation, and that music was a sort of hothouse product to be imported from a foreign country and left to drag out a half-starved existence far from