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The forgotten songs of the Newfoundland outports : as taken from Kenneth Peacock's Newfoundland field collection, 1951-1961 / Anna Kearney Guigné ; music re-edited and transcribed by Evelyn Osborne.
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Language
English
Published/Created
Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Museum of History : University of Ottawa Press, [2016]
©2016
Description
xxii, 434 pages : illustrations (some color), music ; 24 cm
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ML3563.7.N4 F72 2016
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Subject(s)
Folk songs, English
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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History and criticism
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Songs, English
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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History and criticism
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Folk songs, English
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Songs, English
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Newfoundland and Labrador
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Issuing body
Canadian Museum of History
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Editor
Peacock, Kenneth
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Kearney Guigné, Anna, 1953-
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Arranger of music
Osborne, Evelyn, 1975-
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Folk songs
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Songs
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Series
Mercury series
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Études culturelles (Canadian Museum of History) ; no 87.
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Cultural studies paper ; 87
Summary note
"Between 1951 and 1961, the classical composer and pianist Kenneth Peacock (1922-2000) visited the island of Newfoundland six times on behalf of the National Museum of Canada (today the Canadian Museum of History) to collect folksongs. During this period Peacock acquired a total of 766 songs from 118 individuals in 38 communities."
Notes
Between 1951 and 1961, the classical composer and pianist Kenneth Peacock (1922-2000) visited the island of Newfoundland six times on behalf of the National Museum of Canada (today the Canadian Museum of History) to collect folksongs. During this period Peacock acquired a total of 766 songs from 118 individuals in 38 communities.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-429) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Documentation of Newfoundland Folk Song Prior to Peacock's Field Explorations; Peacock's Trips to Newfoundland: 1951-1961; Influence of Media in Shaping the Newfoundland and Labrador Song Tradition; Arrangement of The Forgotten Songs of the Newfoundland Outports; A Word on Transcription; Conclusion
The forgotten songs of the Newfoundland outports taken from Kenneth Peacock's Newfoundland field collection, 1951-1961. Angelina Brown; Anna Gray; Annie Dear I'm Called Away; As Susan Strayed the Briny Beach (Susan Strayed the Briny Beach); Bad Companions/Bad Company (Young Companions); The Banks of Sweet Dundee (or Undaunted Mary); The Bellburns Tragedy; The Best of Friends Must Part; The Best Thing in Life; The Big Roaring Fire (A Good Raring Fire; A Tidy Smilin' Wife); The Black Devil (Three Jolly Jack Tars; The Black Cook); The Black Sheep; The Bold Tinker (Daniel O'Connell); Bonavista Harbour; The Boston Burglar; The Boy That Wore the Blue (The Soldier's Letter); The Brave Engineer (The Wreck of Number Nine); Bright Phoebe; Burgeo Jail; Coaker's Dream; The Coat That Was Buttoned Behind (An Irishman's Coat It Is Buttoned Before); Concerning One Spring in Bonay; The Cow Puncher's Lament (When the Work's All Done This Fall); Currant Island Wedding; The Dance at Daniel's Harbour; Daniel Sullivan; The Dark-Eyed Sailor; Doctor Fletcher (Dr. Pritchard); The Dying Soldier; Erin's Lovely Home (Seven Links upon My Chain); Fair Fanny Moorel The Faithful Sailor Boy; The Farmer's Boy; Fifteen Years Ago; Five-Boss Highway; Frozen Charlotte (Young Charlotte); The Gay Spanish Maid; Give an Honest Irish Lad a Chance (The Honest Irish Lad); Gold Is the Root of Evil (You Rambling Boys of Pleasure); Goodbye John, But Don't Stop Long; Grief Is a Knot (False Willie); The Grounding of the Cabot Straight; Harry Dunn (The Hanging Limb); H'emmer Jane; Henry Connors; Highway Song (Employment Song); The High Road to St. Paul's; The Hills of Glenshee (The Lass of Glenshee); Hitler's Song (sung to the tune of "Squid Jiggin' Ground"); The Hole in the Wall; I Once Knew a Man (S-a-v-e-d; I'm Saved); I'm Bound Away for Canada (My Dear I'm Bound for Canaday); In Bright and Bonny Scotland (The Paisley Officer); In the Shadows of the Pines; The I.W.A. Strike; Jack and Joe (Give My Love to Nell); The Jacket So Blue (Bonnet So Blue); James McGee (James MaGee); Jim O'Lynn; John Mitchell (Mitchell's Address); John Yetman; The Kaiser's Dream; Kelly and the Ghost (Maurice Kelly); Kenneth Sheppard; A Lad and a Lass (No Sign of Marriage); The Little Harbour Bargain Store ; Lonely Since My Mother Died; The Loss of the Atlantic; The Loss of the Caribou; The Loss of the Schooner Arabelle; Love's Not Like It Used to Be; The Lovely Cottage Maid (The Cottage Maid); Lovely Mary Ann (Blooming Mary Ann); The Maid of the Mountain Brow (At the Foot of the Mountain Brow); Mickey Milligan's Pup (Brannigan's Pup); The Mine at Baie Verde; Molly Bawn (Mary Bawn or Boating on Lough Lee); Morrissey and the Black; The Mountains of Mourne (Mountains o' Mourne); My Bonny Irish Boy (Bonny Irish Boy); Mt Father's Old Sou'wester; My Little English Home across the Sea; Nancy of London (Nancy of Yarmouth); On the Deck of the Willow Green (Faithful Edgar); The Orangemen of Cadiz; Our Boys Gave Up Squiddin' (sung to the tune of "Squid Jiggin' Ground"); Paddy and the Three English Plagues (Three English Rovers); Pats O'Brien; Patrick Power; Peter Emberley (Peter Hembly; Peter Amberley); The Prince and the Orphan (The Orphan Girl); The Prison(er) of Newfoundland; The Rose in June; The Roving Newfoundlander; Save Your Money When You're Young; The Scolding Wife; The Search of the Thomas J.; The Ship That Never Came (The Gentle Boy); The Six Horsepower Coaker; Skipper George Whitely; The Soldier's Letter; Someone Has Been There Before; The Southern Shore Queen; The Spanish Lass (The Young Spanish Lass; The Indian Lass); The Spanish Main (I Was Just Sixteen); Ten Weary Years (The Miner's Dream of Home); There Lived an Old woman in Dover (Eggs and Marrow Bones); Thomas and Molly (Thomas and Nancy); Timber for the Bridge at St. Paul's; When We Were Sweet Sixteen (Now I'm Sixty-Four); Woman's the Joy and the Pride of the Land; The Wreck of the Ethie; The Wreck of the Green Rocks; The Wreck of the Old Spike; (The Wreck of the Semmity); Young Ettie;
The Singers: Biographical Sketches. Barker, John (1907-1984), Stock Cove, Bonavista Bay; The Bennetts of St. Paul's, Great Northern Peninsula; Bennett, Catherine Rebecca (Becky) (1908-2006), St. Paul's Great Northern Peninsula; Bennett, Clarence Obediah (b.1926), St. Paul's Great Northern Peninsula; Bennett, Everett (B. 1899), St. Paul's Great Northern Peninsula; Bennett, James (Jim) (b.1936.), St. Paul's, Great Northern Peninsula; Bennett, Isaac Freeman (1896-1981), St. Paul's, Great Northern Peninsula; Brennan William (Bill) (b.1926), Stock Cove, Bonavista Bay; Bryan, Rillie (Orelia) Louena (1935-2013), St. Paul's; Cobb, Chris (1897-1968), Barr'd Islands, Fogo; Coles Alvina, Cormack; Curtis, Harry (b. 1895), Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island; Decker, Charlotte Maria (1877-1967), Parsons Pond; Great Northern Peninsula; Decker, George William. (1878-1962), Rocky Harbour; Great Northern Peninsula; Decker, James R. (1880-1960, possibly 1965), Parsons Pond; Great Northern Peninsula; Decker, Sara Ann (1905-1968), Rocky Harbour, Great Northern Peninsula; Deveau (Devoe, Deveaux), Martin Upper Ferry, Codroy Valley; Donahue, Peter (1862-1961), Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island; Elliot, Charles, Keels, Bonavista Bay; Fogarty, Amelia (Millie) (1882-1961), Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Island; Foley, Philip (b. 1902), Tilting, Fogo Island; Freake, Fred M., Joe Batt's Arm, Fogo Islandl Gallahue, Andrew (b. 1919), Stock Cove, Bonavista Bay; Ghaney, Anastasia (1884-1959), Fermeuse, Southern Shore; Hardy [Harty] Austin (1922-2001), Broad Cove (Duntara), Bonavista Bay; Heaney, James (1887-1962), Stock Cove, Bonavista Bay; Heaney, Lucy (Mary) (1872-1979), Stock Cove, Bonavista Bay; Holloway, William (1883-c. 1958), King's Cove, Bonavista Bay; Hoven, Ron (b. 1899), and Mrs. Hoven, Fogo, Fogo Island; Hulan, Leonard (1882-1964), Jeffrey's Codroy Valley; Hutchings, Lawrence, Rocky Harbour, Great Northern Peninsula; Kent, Mike (1904-1997), Cape Broyle, Southern Shore; Keough, Nicolas (Nicholas), Parson's Pond, Great Northern Peninsula; Kinslow, Amelia (1903-1985), Isle aux Morts, Southwest Coast; Legge, Annie (b. 1920), Jeffrey's Codroy Valley; Little, Stewart (1883-1965), Town of Bonavista, Bonavista Bay; Mahoney. Gerald [Gerard] (b. 1933), Stock Cove, Bonavista Bay; Mahoney, John (b. 1896), Mahoney, Elizabeth (Lee) (b. 1903), Stock Cove; Morry, Howard Leopold (1885-1972), Ferryland, Southern Shore; Nicolle, Arthur (1898-1970), Rocky Harbour, Great Northern Peninsula; O'Brien, Roanls J. (d.1997), Cape Broyle, Southern Shore; Osmond, Martha Mrs., Grand Bay, (Channel-port aux Basques); Osborne, Emanuel, Port aux Basques; Osborne, Joshua (1900-1994), Seal Cove, White Bay; Payne, Amos (1921-2011), Parson's Pond, Great Northern Peninsula; Payne Freeman, (b. 1901?) Rocky Harbour; Pink, Kenneth (b. 1929?), Harbour Le Cou and Rose Blanche; Rice, Gordon (1929-2006), Seal Cove, White Bay; Rice, James T. (Jim) (1878-1958), Cape Broyle, Southern Shore; Rice, Edward (Ned), (1916-2002) Cape Broyle, Southern Shore; Rossiter, Monica (Mon) (1913-2004), Cape Broyle, Southern Shore; Rossiter, Patrick (Paddy) Joseph (1900-1980), Fermeuse, Southern Shore; Soper, Lloyd Pleman (1919-1960s), Bellburns, Great Northern Peninsula; Vallis, Ewart (Huey), (1929-2013), Grand Bank, Fortune Bay; Walters, Annie (1896-1986), Rocky Harbour, Great Northern Peninsula.
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9780776623849 ((paperback))
0776623842 ((paperback))
0776623850
9780776623856
LCCN
2017381025
OCLC
957503417
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