I think in the case of a lot of "folk songs" published at this time they are more than often completely new and composed in the "style of" or often even a complete invention of a tradition. There are number of recent book that deal with this inventing of folk traditions, there was a sort of patriotic musical arms race at the time. All the best Mark On Mar 21, 2012, at 9:35 PM, Ron Andrico wrote:
> Thanks, Tom and Mark. Forgive the off-topic nature of this but we > actually saw the credit to Herbert Hughes many years ago, and > understand that Hughes was a collector and assembler of anthologies who > was rather aggressive about taking credit for whatever he could. In > the US folk music realm, we have something of an equivalent in AP > Carter, who collected and copyrighted, and recorded a massive number of > folk songs. > Veering back to topic, I suppose we have historical 'anthologizers' in > the lute realm as well, Phalese, Besard, Mertel to name a few. I > wonder if the staff lutenist-arranger who did all the work for Phalese > would object that the publisher got all the credit for his work? > RA >> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:09:49 -0500 >> To: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] >> From: [email protected] >> Subject: [LUTE] Re: Saturday quote: Sean nos for St. P >> >>> We offer a video of Donna singing an Irish ballad that may or may >> >>> not be old. [1]http://wp.me/p15OyV-lK R&D >> >> Beautiful! >> >> Published by Boosey & Hawkes, 1909. Irish Country Songs >> >> Collected in Donegal by poet Padraic Colum and Herbert Hughes >> >> Tom Draughon >> >> Heartistry Music >> >> http://www.heartistrymusic.com/artists/tom.html >> >> 714 9th Avenue West >> >> Ashland, WI 54806 >> >> 715-682-9362 >> >> -- >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > -- >
