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This review is from: Song for Every Season (Hardcover)
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. |
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Song for Every Season by Bob Copper (Hardcover - October 11, 1971)
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