She again ended with "A" and it was then that she told Peacock two things (before he, who used the recorder mainly to capture performance, stopped the tape): "A" is to be repeated twice, and the verse she forgot yesterday is "C. " The question not answered by her instructions to Peacock is: at what point in the song is "A" first sung? Within each syllabus he grouped versions of the ballads he described as "Current in American Tradition" in topical categories. Down in the meadow this fair maid went, A-picking primroses just as she went. They're very different to what I learned in my class: She's like a river that never runs dry.
Now that Newfoundland was part of Canada, its songs had even greater appeal to the middle-class intellectuals in English Canada who studied and promulgated Canadian folksong. All Rights Reserved. No gimmicks, just solid choral writing designed to make your choir sound great. Early in July he wrote excitedly to Helen Creighton:There has been one good scoop this year so far — the complete version of SHE'S LIKE THE SWALLOW. 33 Two years after Peacock made his discoveries on Newfoundland's west coast, Edith Fowke collected "She's Like a Swallow" from Albert Simms, a native of McCallum Harbour, Hermitage Bay, on the south coast, who had settled in Toronto. Given this attitude, the fact that he accepted her characterization of the melody for her barely remembered "Swallow" so easily seems very much like a leap of faith. She says:) "When I carried my apron low, My love followed me through frost and snow. Ever since Gerhardt reached out and sent me this beautiful track, I've been reflecting on those questions – and while I don't have an answer, I have an idea of one…. These hundreds of small coastal fishing communities were seen to epitomize equality, self-reliance, solidarity, and other positive social values. 6 And when I go home I'll write a song, I'll write it wide and I'll write it long, And every line I'll shed a tear, And every verse recall, my dear. Discounting Decker's suspect melody, Hunt's is the only one collected from oral tradition that is modal.
It has been arranged for choral and other use by many composers, including Peter R. Allen, Keith Bissell, Norman Brown, James Campbell, Craig Cassils, Stephen Chatman, Donald Cook, Alfred Kunz, Ben McPeek, Godfrey Ridout, Harry Somers, Judy Specht, and Peter Tiefenbach; and for piano by Nancy Telfer. She's like the sunshine on the lee shore, Karen Casey has a nice version of this song on her "Songlines" CD. When she was in London around 1970 she and Neil Murray visited Maud Karpeles and she sang her version for Karpeles. Anna Kearney Guigné, personal communication. English Folk-Song: Some Conclusions. She's like the sunshine on the lee shore, I love my love and love is no more. From this we can take a clue: children who heard and remembered "She's Like the Swallow" learned about contrasting gender perspectives concerning physical and spiritual love.
It's classical but really gets the feel of these songs. Later she saw Peacock's version and added verses from that to the version she already knew. Author: Unknown - also titled She's Like The Swallow. This world 's not made for one alone. I deliberately wrote the melody in a disjointed way to emphasize the confusion that often accompanies grief. This is the only verse that speaks unequivocally of death: "her corpse lay cold. " Not until 1971, when Karpeles published the bulk of her collection in Folksongs of Newfoundland, did other references appear. The full line reads: We'll rant and we'll roar, on deck and below" — an appropriate description of the tenor of the politically charged forums. I've known this (Newfoundland) song for some 40 years.
By 1959, when Peacock started his fourth season of collecting, Karpeles's 1934 version of "She's Like the Swallow" was well known to Canadian audiences as a Newfoundland folksong with a beautiful melody. Karpeles collected many ballads, but her favorite catch was "She's Like the Swallow, " which, by editing out Hunt's "corrupt and incomplete" verses, she was most comfortable presenting as a lyric. Like Sharp, she believed that one of the defining characteristics of folksong was modal melody, and "She's Like the Swallow" met this standard. Consequently his published version of her text is, in detail, not an accurate representation of either of her performances, or even of what might have been her ideal version: 2 Out in the meadow this fair girl went. It reflected a culture that predated post-renaissance Europe when tonal harmony-dominated musical theory developed. 34 This version's tune differs from both those of Hunt and Kinslow. Story was advancing an argument he had developed earlier about "the creativity of the traditional popular culture of Newfoundland and its relation to the printed literature of the region" (Story 101). It is widely familiar to Canadians who have sung in choirs, for many Canadian composers have made choral arrangements of it. LUCKEY'S BOAT/SHE'S LIKE THE SWALLOW [10043] ("Canadian Folk Songs"). It has also been arranged for handbells and for concert band. The music of George Gershwin / arr.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind. "MUNFLA, A Newfoundland Resource for the Study of Folk Music. " The note values have been doubled here and the key signature changed from 6/8 to 6/4; the tune is transposed from the original three sharps. She's Like a Swallow and other folk songs sung by Bonnie Dobson. Each of Laws's topical categories was assigned a letter, and each song within the category given a number.
Depending upon the location, and the time of night at which they were held, some children could be present at such events. Words by Joseph McCarthy, music by Harry Carroll / arr. Right now it's raining outside, the sky is kinda grey and you know it's cold - there's a general melancholic feel to the world and this track accompanies it perfectly. A return to the playlist's roots this week with a stunning solo piece from Canadian pianist Ian Wong. Rosenberg, Neil V. 1991a. A duplicate of this tape is on deposit at MUNFLA: accession # 87-157, tape C11064B. June Tabor sings She's Like the Swallow. Both Karpeles and Peacock provide specific evidence for this in their annotative notes. 64 When Hunt, Bugden, Kinslow, Decker, and Simms were children, singing was a primary source of entertainment. She also directed me to another woman further north who knows it. Be that as it may, the perspective of the Arts and Crafts movement affected early twentieth century intellectual life in Britain in many ways.
A-picking the flowers that there was spread. The published texts of Karpeles and Peacock do not match their own ethnographic evidence — Karpeles edited Hunt's performance, while Peacock edited and rearranged Kinslow's and added a verse to Decker's, which he may have also rearranged. E Her heart was broke and her corpse lay cold: That she had thought so much of me. Are there other stanzas? Like an archeologist, Karpeles rolled up her sleeves and dug into the distant minds of people living in isolated circumstances to unearth historical treasure. J "When I carried my apron low.
2, Tuesday, July 8th, 1930, sheet eight. She gave him one, she gave him three. "Furusato (Homeland) is a tender tribute to home, this Japanese folk song's sentiment is touching to all. Until 1965, only Karpeles's slim edited text was widely known, Bugden's 1951 letter having had virtually no impact. Publisher: E. C. Schirmer Music Company. After my dad died I was very sad - I couldn't play for a while and when I did, the music that came out reflected my grieving state.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers. The two verses express cause and effect, so "C" tells of the consequences of "B" — a bed of roses and a pillow of stone are the site of her silent repose leading to a broken heart. Arguing that "it works both ways, " he presented the latter half of "As I Walked Forth One Summer Day, " a song written in the late seventeenth or early eighteenth century by "an obscure poet named Robert Johnson, " that includes lines similar to those in the second and third verses (labelled as "B" and "C" below) of the Hunt version collected by Karpeles (Peacock 1965, 714). The rest of the brief article analyzed the meaning of the song as a lyric resonant with the "common everyday experiences of a maritime people. " Bell, The Leslie, Singers. Songs strong rooted in place, people and their shared love of the natural world.
72 One was the way of thinking about music. Harmondsworth, England: Penguin. And as they sat on yonder hill. Words by Al Dubin, music by Harry Warren / arr. Words by E. Y. Harburg, music by Burton Lane / arr. In terms of the aesthetics of the folk revival, which valued modal tonalities, this was a less interesting tune. Songs of the Newfoundland Outports. In 1988 the late George Story summarized the iconic role of this song. Karpeles's full notes for the day she collected the song — which she does not mention — read: Arranged to go by motor boat starting at 2, but my man failed to keep his appointment. American Folklore: An Encyclopedia, ed.