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Author:   Edith Fowke ,  Jay Rahn
Publisher:   University of Calgary Press
Imprint:   University of Calgary Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.482kg
ISBN:  

9781895176360

ISBN 10:   1895176360
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   30 June 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Women and Folksongs My Relationship with LaRena LaRenaas Repertoire General Aspects of LaRenaas Singing by Jay Rahn LaRenaas Story Background Early Life LaRena and Gordon LaRenaas Songs and Records LaRena Tells of Her Ancestors LaRena Talks of her Songs The Songs 1. Classic Ballands The Dapple Grey The Kingas Daughter Lord Gregory Barbara Allen The Gypsy Davy There Was a Lord in Edinburgh The House Carpenter Iall Go See My Love The Golden Vanity 2. Songs of True Love The Gallant Hussar The Cottage on Yonder Moors The Rifle Boys The Lady Leroy The Wars of Troy The Banks of the Nile Molly Vaughn The Lass of Glenshee Lovely Jimmy My Irish Girl Through Rocks and Hills Do Us Divide Peggy Gordon Lord Allanas Daughter King Henry Has Sent Me Free Iall Remember You, Love, In My Prayers A Womanas the Joy and the Pride of the Land 3. Songs of False Love The Shipas Carpenter The Jealous Lover Early, Early in the Spring The Bonny Young Irish boy The Butcher Boy The False Young Man Go and Bring Me Back the Boy I Love Go and Leave Me If You Wish To Adieu Unto Cold Weather I Once Loved a Lass Rattle on the Stovepipe Iam Ruined, Iam Ruined Forever The Hidden Question Young Jimmy Brown Iall Go Seek for Another 4. Returned Lover Ballads The Dark--Eyed Sailor The Mantle So Green Bloody Waterloo George Riley The Banks of Claudy The Banks of Inverness 4. The Burns Connection Burns and His Highland Mary Highland Mary O The Soldier Laddie 6. Bawdy Ballads The Foggy Dew Razinberry lane The Little Ball of Yarn The Roving Shantyboy Green Grows the rashes O Green Leaves So Green O 7. North American Romantic Ballads The Lass of MOhee The Young Indian Lass The Chippewa Stream The Banks of the Pembina 8. Comic Songs Devilish Mary Pat and His Old Leather Britches Big Jackass Smelling of Partridge Jane McInnery from Cork I Had But Fifty Cents Come Tiddly Wink Some Day The Burglar Boy 9. Irish Songs The Drowning of Willie Leonard The Banks of Newfoundland The Cruiskee Lawn 10. English Songs The Old Country Fair The Faggot Cutter Thyme, aTis a Pretty Flower The Rich and the Poor Bonny Black Bess 11. American Songs The Texas Rangers The Cowboyas Lament Young Charlotte The Arkensas Traveller Never Going to Cease My Wandering The Ploughboy 12. Local Canadian Songs Bridget from Washago Drill, Ye Tarriers, Drill Memories of the Miramichi 13. Lumbering Songs The Farmeras Son and the Shantyboy Fine Times in Camp Number Three Hurry Up, Harry The Squire Boys The Raftsmenas Song 14. LaRenaas Composition O Canada, Land of Our Homeland Buckskin Baby Tuscarora Maiden Woes of Two Fisherman Hawkestone on the Shores of Lake Simcoe LaRenaas Palce in Musical Tradition By Jay Rahn Summing Up Sources and References for LaRenaas Songs LaRenaas Family Songs LaRenaas Recordings LaRenaas Compositions Publications Cited Recordings Cited Index of Songs Index of First Lines

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The late Edith Fowke, an internationally known folklorist, produced more than twenty books, countless articles and eight record albums devoted to Canada's oral heritage. Jay Rahn is a Canadian ethnomusicologist and is a Professor of Music at York University. He has published extensively on ethnomusicology, music theory, and music history.

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