Song for Every Season [Hardcover]

Bob Copper (Author)

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• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd (October 11, 1971)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 043414455X
• ISBN-13: 978-0434144556
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,576,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Songs and History, September 29, 2007

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Dianne Tillotson (Canberra, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This is really two books in one, and both parts are exceptional. The first half provides a vivid, and in many ways astonishing, picture of agricultural life in rural England in the early 20th century as seen through the eyes of the author's father. It is astonishing because the life revealed seems to be more akin to that of a medieval peasant than modern industrial England.
The song book is arranged around the seasonal round of agricultural festivals, and presents the songs as sung by generations of members of the same family. Their descendants are still singing them today. Real folk music, untampered with by academics. The songs are written out as they were sung, unaccompanied and often in two part harmony.
The book is an original fragment of music history that can never be repeated as the changes to life in rural England have accelerated. Things ain't what they used to be.