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The State of Research in Tibetan Folk Music

existence of secular songs in Tibet, some of them possibly folksongs, has been referred to in the works of Western writers since the year 1800. Captain Samuel Turner heard the mother of the then Tashi Lama sing to him very pleasing air, which she played at the same time upon the guittar, her husband also accompanying her on the flageolet (1800:308); the French Lazarist Fathers, RegisEvariste Huc and Joseph Gabet, between 1840 and 1842, heard children singing as they danced at the New Year Festival in Fhasa (1928: II, 75), while Sir Alexander Cunningham heard drinking songs sung at banquets in Ladak (1854:307), a country which had been separated from Tibet shortly before his visit there. None of these authors, however, has given any specimen of what he heard and none allows us any technical description. In his manual of 1879 Major Thomas H. Lewin truly says their folklore, songs and ballads are all unknown (1879). And seventy years later Giuseppi Tucci, introducing his collection of Tibetan folksongs from the district of Gyantse, could still write: The European literature on Tibetan folk song is rather scarce. I know only the few specimens which have been published either in translations or in the original text, and he then lists eight of the relevant sources (1949:7 and n.l). THE PUBLISHED SOURCES

Ancient Themes and Characteristics Found in Certain New England Folksongs

WITH MY SUBJECT this morning Ancient Themes and Characteristics Found in Certain New England Folksongs I can cite here in my allotted twenty minutes but a few of those I have encountered. For the oldest, I will choose one superior authority. I shall confine myself chiefly to the book published in 1956 entitled From the Tablets of Sumer by the eminent Sumerologist Samuel Noah Kramer.2 His forthcoming book The Sumerians: Their History, Culture, and Character will be published by the University of Chicago Press next spring (I963). But I have much to bring to the fore for your consideration, particularly his translation of legends and myths millennia old, where lines of poetry seem akin to some in my collection of New England folksongs. I shall read excerpts from that particular book, From the Tablets of Sumerexcerpts which led me to revalue, now here, now there, what is in my files. I will quote with permission from the publisher (The Falcon's Wing Press) what I think is analogous so that you may form your own opinions. In Sumerian there occur incremental repetitions where an envoy repeats a message word for word as first given him and it advances the plot whenever it recurs. For instance, in the first tale of resurrection there is the myth in the words of the ancient poet himself. Dr. Kramer translates Inanna's instructions to her vizier Ninshubur.3 Note the patterned repetitions of

A Judeo-Spanish Derivative of the Ballad of The Bridge of Arta

PERHAPS THE MOST famous of all ballad narratives in the complex, multilingual and yet strikingly homogeneous folklore of the Balkan Peninsula concerns the ancient practice of walling a human being into the base of a building or a bridge as a foundation sacrifice.' Under various titles, and obviously with numerous local variations and attributions, the topic enjoys almost universal diffusion in the balladry of Balkan peoples.2 Ballads with a similar narrative structure concerning a human foundation sacrifice have been recorded in Greek (the bridge of Arta, of Hellada, of Antimachia, among others), in Macedo-Rumanian (The bridge of Narta), in Albanian (The bridge of Artos or of Dibra3 and the fortress of Shkodra), in Serbian (The building of Skadra [Scutari] and the bridge on the Drina), in Macedonian (a variety of bridges), in Bulgarian (the stronghold of Salonika, among others), in Daco-Rumanian (the monastery of Argef or the castle of Barcan) and in Hungarian (the citadel of Deva). The same topic concerning the building of a bridge or a church forms part of the folkloric traditions of far-wandering Balkan Gypsies.4 The ballad was also known, and indeed possibly originated, as The Bridge of Adana, in the archaic Greek speech communities of Trebizond and central Anatolia.5 In I956, the Israeli scholar Moshe Attias published a collection of ballads and folksongs from the oral tradition of the Spanish-speaking Sephardic Jews of Salonika and Larissa (Greece).6 Ballad no. 62 of Attias' Romancero begins with the following verses:

The Singing Island (A collection of English and Scots Folksongs). Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl. (Mills Music Ltd., London, 1960.) 119 pp. 20s.

The Singing Island (A collection of English and Scots Folksongs). Peggy Seeger and Ewan MacColl. (Mills Music Ltd., London, 1960.) 119 pp. 20s.

Canadian Folk Song Collections

Canadian Folk Song Collections

The Collection and Preservation of Folk Songs by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)

The Collection and Preservation of Folk Songs by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK)

The Shak-Shak in the Lesser Antilles

ation; local traditions of Morris and Sword dancing, and other seasonal rites have received fresh impetus, or have been brought to life again by the interest aroused by the Society' s activities; fertilized by native folk airs English music has thrown up vigorous new growth. And this is more than ample fulfillment of Sir Hubert Parry's modest hope, expressed in his Vice-Presidential address at the inaugural meeting of the Folk Song Society in June 1898 that shall preserve much precious folk music from being lost and . . . that before long we shall find England more satisfactorily represented in folksong collections than has hitherto been the case.

Review: A Guide to English Folk Song Collections 1822-1952, with an Index to Their Contents, Historical Annotations and an Introduction by Margaret Dean-Smith

Book Review| April 01 1955 Review: A Guide to English Folk Song Collections 1822-1952, with an Index to Their Contents, Historical Annotations and an Introduction by Margaret Dean-Smith A Guide to English Folk Song Collections 1822-1952, with an Index to Their Contents, Historical Annotations and an IntroductionMargaret Dean-Smith Bertrand H. Bronson Bertrand H. Bronson Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (1955) 8 (1): 57–58. https://doi.org/10.2307/829596 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Bertrand H. Bronson; Review: A Guide to English Folk Song Collections 1822-1952, with an Index to Their Contents, Historical Annotations and an Introduction by Margaret Dean-Smith. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 1955; 8 (1): 57–58. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/829596 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search This content is only available via PDF. Copyright 1955 The American Musicological Society Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

A Guide to English Folk Song Collections 1822-1952, with an Index to Their Contents, Historical Annotations and an Introduction . Margaret Dean-Smith .

A Guide to English Folk Song Collections 1822-1952, with an Index to Their Contents, Historical Annotations and an Introduction . Margaret Dean-Smith .

The Nibelungenlied in 19th Century American Periodicals

The interest displayed by both the scholar and the dilettante of young America in the best-known of the German epics is enlightening as a reflection of the extent of German-American cultural relations during the 19th century. It is gratifying to discover in the 19th century American journals not only a generally receptive attitude towards the epic and an awareness of the main currents of European criticism, but also at the close of the century a significant original contribution to the progress of Nibelungen study. Before the Romantic interest in medieval culture the Nibelungenlied was sadly neglected by literary criticism in the land of its origin. Furthermore, although Nibelungen study flourished among Romantic critics, the Romantic misconception of the epic as a collection of folk songs, products of automatic growth among the people, held German criticism under its spell throughout the 19th century.

A Guide to English Folk Song Collections, 1822-1952. With an Index to their Contents, Historical Annotations and an Introduction. Dean-Smith Margaret. Foreword by Abraham Gerald. (University Press of Liverpool in association with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1954.) 120 pp. 15s.

A Guide to English Folk Song Collections, 1822-1952. With an Index to their Contents, Historical Annotations and an Introduction. Dean-Smith Margaret. Foreword by Abraham Gerald. (University Press of Liverpool in association with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, 1954.) 120 pp. 15s. - Volume 7

A Guide to English Folk Song Collections, 1822-1952, with an Index to Their Contents, Historical Annotations, and an Introduction

A Guide to English Folk Song Collections, 1822-1952, with an Index to Their Contents, Historical Annotations, and an Introduction

A Guide to English Folk Song Collections, I822-1952, with an index to their contents, Historical annotations and an introduction. By Margaret Dean-Smith. Liverpool : University Press. Pp. 120. 1954. 15s. (English Folk Dance and Song Society.)

A Guide to English Folk Song Collections, I822-1952, with an index to their contents, Historical annotations and an introduction. By Margaret Dean-Smith. Liverpool : University Press. Pp. 120. 1954. 15s. (English Folk Dance and Song Society.)

Memory Melodies: A Collection of Folk Songs from Middle Tennessee

Memory Melodies: A Collection of Folk Songs from Middle Tennessee

THE NATURE OF THE RUSSIAN FOLK-SONG

IN PREVIOUS ARTICLES on the old Russian religious chant, the present author has referred to the close kinship between certain melodic turns of the chant and some types of the Russian folksong. Under the influence of the latter, the chant, by the I th century, actually became transformed melodically from its alien Byzantine outline to one profoundly in keeping with the songs of the Russian people. The destinies of these two great bodies of music -the folk-song and the chant-betray a curious parallelism: I. Up to the late I 7th century they dominate all Russian music with no interference or attempt to force them into alien channels. II. With the westernization under Czar Alexei (beginning ca. 1660), Czar Peter the Great, and his successors, the cities (the capitals in particular) begin to cultivate their own music entirely in the western, so-called fashionable manner, but the old Russian heritage is not forgotten. III. Folk-song and the old chant (along with later chants) are brought into the sphere of music-making without any regard for their properties. They are utilized for whatever purpose is at hand, mangled and mutilated, but also thoroughly enjoyed. The reign of the Empress Elizabeth (1741 -6o) has been called the age of song. There is an influx of the folk-song into Moscow, together with old peasant dances and rites. Soon afterwards the old chant is transcribed into modern notation (I772, without any strictly scientific method). Instrumental accompaniments are used not only with the folk-songs but-and this is almost sacrilegious-in the singing of sacred music (witness the Empress Catherine's regret concerning the rule that instruments should not be used in churches). The first attempts to affix the folk-song on paper are made in Trutovsky's collection (four parts: 1776, 1778, 1779, 1795). IV. Now come the various folk-song collections with an attempt at classifying the material: 498

The Suppressed Poems of Burns

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Suppressed Poems of BurnsJ. DeLancey FergusonJ. DeLancey Ferguson Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Modern Philology Volume 30, Number 1Aug., 1932 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/388005 Citations: 1Citations are reported from Crossref PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Oskar Felsenfeld Die Velezsche Zahl und ihr Zusammenhang mit den Veränderungen des weißen Blutbildes beim tuberkulösen Kinde, Beiträge zur Klinik der Tuberkulose und spezifischen Tuberkulose-Forschung 86, no.22 (Feb 1935): 67–71.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02329144