Ethel Bassin

Gebundenes Buch

The Old Songs of Skye

Frances Tolmie and Her Circle

Herausgeber: Bowman, Derek

Beschreibung

Originally published in 1977. Frances Tolmie (1840-1926) was one of the foremost Gaelic folklore and folksong experts. This account of her life and work places her unique contribution to human song against a full personal, historical and cultural background, including a selection of the songs she heard and wrote down.

Autor

Ethel Bassin, well-known teacher and music festival organizer, spent her childhood in Edinburgh, and taught in Portree before going to Canada to lecture in the University of British Columbia on music methods. While there she wrote a number of playlets with English dialogue and Gaelic songs, which she produced at festivals. She then went to London to edit Rural Music, and returned in 1939 to the Hebrides, where she collected folksongs. Later she became Music Teacher at Dingwall Academy in Ross-shire and was still revising this book at the time of her death in 1974.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781138961999
• ISBN-10: 113896199X
• Artikelnr.: 43020732