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...Humming A Diff'rent Tune: Old German Songbooks, No. 12: English and French Songs for Schools (1911/12)
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Humming A Diff'rent Tune. Old Songbooks, Music History and More. Thursday, July 3, 2014. Old German Songbooks, No. 12: English and French Songs for Schools (1911/12). What kind of songs did the German children sing in school in the early 20th century? Simon Breu, Deutsches Jugendliederbuch für Gymnasien, Oberrealschulen, Realschulen und andere höhere Lehranstalten, 2. Auflage, Essen and Würzburg 1909. Available at the Internet Archive. A chapter of nearly 20 pages includes a handful of popular songs from...
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...Humming A Diff'rent Tune: John Braham's "Robin Adair" (1811) - The Original Sheet Music
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Humming A Diff'rent Tune. Old Songbooks, Music History and More. Monday, February 3, 2014. John Braham's "Robin Adair" (1811) - The Original Sheet Music. But as far as I know none of them has been digitized yet. But thankfully - and much to my surprise - I was able to find another extant copy of this historically important publication:. BNA) and this time was also able to find some more information regarding the early history of Braham's great hit that also allowed me to correct some of my earlier assump...
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...Humming A Diff'rent Tune: The Earl of Marischal And His Collection of International "National Airs" (1771)
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Humming A Diff'rent Tune. Old Songbooks, Music History and More. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. The Earl of Marischal And His Collection of International "National Airs" (1771). In the first volume of Johann Gottfried Herder's Volkslieder. 1778) we can find an introductory collection of "Zeugnisse über Volkslieder" with quotes from, among others, Montaigne, Joseph Addison, Luther, Agricola and Lessing ( pp. 5-12. This was George Keith, the 10th Earl of Marischal (c. 1693-1778), an exiled Scottish soldier ...
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...Humming A Diff'rent Tune: Old German Songbooks, No. 18: Victorie Gervinus, Volksliederbuch (1896) And Some More Songbooks For Schools
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Humming A Diff'rent Tune. Old Songbooks, Music History and More. Thursday, November 13, 2014. Old German Songbooks, No. 18: Victorie Gervinus, Volksliederbuch (1896) And Some More Songbooks For Schools. 1835-41, now available at the Internet Archive. Seem to have been an particularly important source. Foreign "Folk songs" - or what was regarded as such - used to be very popular in Germany since Herder's time. There were many relevant songbooks available. I will only mention here - besides Silcher...I hav...
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...Humming A Diff'rent Tune: June 2015
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Humming A Diff'rent Tune. Old Songbooks, Music History and More. Saturday, June 6, 2015. Thomas Moore's "Scottish" Songs. I am at the moment quite busy with Friedrich Silcher's collection Ausländische Volksmelodien. Published in 4 booklets between 1835 and 1841 (available at the Internet Archive. See also this text. In my blog). This was the most successful and influential German anthology of what was regarded at that time as foreign national airs. Of which Silcher used three. Apparently he had - unl...
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...Humming A Diff'rent Tune: April 2015
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Humming A Diff'rent Tune. Old Songbooks, Music History and More. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Thomas Moore's "Irish Melodies" and "Popular National Airs" - What is available online? These days I am working quite a lot with two of Thomas Moore's important and influential song collections: both the Irish Melodies. And the Popular National Airs. The first two volumes are available at the Internet Archive. They belong to the Drs Whitby Music Collection. By the University of Western Ontario. To their digital co...
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...Humming A Diff'rent Tune: "The Water Is Wide" - The History Of A "Folk Song"
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Humming A Diff'rent Tune. Old Songbooks, Music History and More. Monday, November 1, 2010. The Water Is Wide" - The History Of A "Folk Song". The Water Is Wide" - The History Of A "Folk Song". January 15, 2013 at 11:19 PM. Make it shorter and something a kid could read i am trying to get only 5 sentence but i cant understand this please change. March 17, 2013 at 2:54 AM. I did not see if you had provided this kind of information already in the text of your The Water Is Wide - The History Of A Folk Song.
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...Humming A Diff'rent Tune: Some Early Song Collections from Denmark & Norway - What is available online?
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Humming A Diff'rent Tune. Old Songbooks, Music History and More. Saturday, May 16, 2015. Some Early Song Collections from Denmark and Norway - What is available online? Recently I was researching some Danish and Norwegian tunes that I had found in German songbooks. Therefore I had to make myself familiar with the most important early collections of folkeviser. Interestingly the earliest examples of Scandinavian "folk tunes" can be found in a French publication:. At the Internet Archive; Christiania 1664.
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...Humming A Diff'rent Tune: December 2014
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Humming A Diff'rent Tune. Old Songbooks, Music History and More. Thursday, December 25, 2014. Long, Long Ago" and "Lang Ist's Her". Long, Long Ago", a song written by Thomas H. Bayly and first published in 1839, was immensely popular in Britain and North America during the 19th and early 20th century. In fact it is some kind of "evergreen" and even today the tune is still known:. Your browser does not support embedded midi. Here 2nd ed., 1909, No. 85, p. 74. Both at the Internet Archive):. Long, Long Ago...
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...Humming A Diff'rent Tune: July 2015
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Humming A Diff'rent Tune. Old Songbooks, Music History and More. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. The Earl of Marischal And His Collection of International "National Airs" (1771). In the first volume of Johann Gottfried Herder's Volkslieder. 1778) we can find an introductory collection of "Zeugnisse über Volkslieder" with quotes from, among others, Montaigne, Joseph Addison, Luther, Agricola and Lessing ( pp. 5-12. This was George Keith, the 10th Earl of Marischal (c. 1693-1778), an exiled Scottish soldier ...
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