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Quick tunes and good times : a light-hearted guide to jigs, reels, rants, planxtys, and other little-known New England folk music

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: 109 pages : illustrations, music ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0872330141
  • 9780872330146
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Quick tunes and good times.DDC classification:
  • 785.4/1
LOC classification:
  • ML3551 .T64
Contents:
Author's note -- Before folks talked about "folk music" -- Family orchestra -- Darling Nellie Gray -- Square and folksy -- We made the big time. Once -- What is good square dance music -- Miss Ramsay's book -- Beethoven discovers square dance music -- Sweet potatoes, brakedrums, eardrums and canticles -- Collecting, composing and decomposing -- A few selected titles -- Music scores.
Music scores. Humours of Glen -- Rakes of Clonmel -- Brisk young lads -- Batchelder's -- Spirvin's fancy -- Durang's -- Hornpipe theme no. 3 / by Newton F. Tolman -- The hare's foot -- Mrs. Grant of Laggan -- Denis O'Conor.

Author's note -- Before folks talked about "folk music" -- Family orchestra -- Darling Nellie Gray -- Square and folksy -- We made the big time. Once -- What is good square dance music -- Miss Ramsay's book -- Beethoven discovers square dance music -- Sweet potatoes, brakedrums, eardrums and canticles -- Collecting, composing and decomposing -- A few selected titles -- Music scores.

Music scores. Humours of Glen -- Rakes of Clonmel -- Brisk young lads -- Batchelder's -- Spirvin's fancy -- Durang's -- Hornpipe theme no. 3 / by Newton F. Tolman -- The hare's foot -- Mrs. Grant of Laggan -- Denis O'Conor.

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