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| House Dance CD-ROM
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| [Contents] Digital book with embedded audio files, by Dan Worrall
MTCD251 £12.00
The heyday of the Anglo-German concertina (1860s to World War I) coincided with a time when social dances in houses, barns, woolsheds and community halls were all the rage in working class urban and rural areas. Here are 172 archival recordings of 36 early concertina players performing schottisches, polkas, quadrilles, waltzes, barn dances, mazurkas, and varsovianas from Ireland, England, Australia and South Africa. The digital book explores such topics as:
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Nineteenth century social dances; Global sources of the house dance repertoire; Old-style octave playing on the concertina; The banning of house dances in early twentieth century Ireland; Biographies and playing styles of early concertina players (with recordings); Modern players in the old octave style (with recordings); A tutorial in octave playing (with recordings, walking you through playing in octaves and across the rows); Discography. Includes more than 150 photos and graphics, and more than 200 sound files in MP3 format.
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| Morris Dancing in the English
south Midlands 1660-1900
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For all computers and operating systems MTCD250 £12.00
The great majority of Keith Chandler's writings on the Cotswold Morris, including two complete books - Ribbons, Bells and Squeaking Fiddles and the Chronological Gazeteer - an unpublished article on the Forest of Dean Morris, 6 other long articles and 8 shorter ones. All specially updated for this edition, and with dozens of unpublished photos.
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Italian CDs
| Sard Polyphonies
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| | Various cantu á tenores and coro [Review] [Tracklist]
Snatch'd from Oblivion SFO 003 £5.00 20 tracks 78 minutes
A compilation of the superb 1979-91 benchmark field recordings of the cantu á tenores genre, and Sardinian sacred coro polyphony.
Booklet in English.
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| Rice Girls
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| | [Tracklist] [Review] Women's Songs from the Ricefields and Farms
Snatch'd from Oblivion SFO 001 £5.00 21 tracks 63 minutes
Fabulous female polyvocality in the Po valley - 1950s and '60s.
Booklet in English.
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| Suoni d'Irpinia, Vol 3
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| | Balli e canti tradizionali in Irpinia [Review] [Tracklist]
Taranta Ethnica TA020 £12.00 19 tracks, 79 minutes
Brilliant polyvocal and accompanied songs from Campagnia; 2000 recordings
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| Ritmia
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|  [Tracklist] [Review] forse il mare
Snatch'd from Oblivion SFO 004 £5.00 4 tracks 37 minutes
The truly wonderful Italian/Sardinian quartet of Riccardo Tesi, Alberto Balia, Enrico Frongia and Daniele Craighead, first published in 1986. Maybe the most effective attempt at making European traditional music accessible to the modern listener without pop, rock or drum & bass.
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Other CDs
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| Gordon Hall
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| [Tracklist] Good Things Enough
Country Branch CBCD095 £12.00 11 tracks 68 minutes
Dedicated to the immortal memory of Gordon Hall. His only CD - back in stock again
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| Bob Lewis
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| | The Painful Plough [Review] [Tracklist]
RUST105 £12.00 17 tracks 60 minutes
Brand new recordings of the fine Sussex singer
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| The English Country Dance Band
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| [Tracklist] Barn Dance
Snatch'd from Oblivion SFO 002 £5.00 14 tracks 57 minutes
26 tunes for 14 dances with full dance instructions
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| Phoenix
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| | after the fire [Review] [Tracklist]
Firebird Records FBR 001. 16 tracks, 76 mins £10.00
An English music band featuring Kevin Bown: piano and double bass; Martin Brinsford: harmonicas; Mike Pinder: fiddle, banjo mandolin; Rod Stradling: melodeons; and Fran Wade: fiddle.
An hour and a quarter's worth of gloriously played hornpipes, jigs, polkas and more, from England and across the world.
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| Will Duke
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| [Tracklist] Out of the Box
Country Branch CBCD235 19 tracks 64 minutes £12.00
20 tunes and 6 songs from this great English singer and superlative anglo concertina player
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| East Anglia Sings
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| | The legendary 1947 broadcast [Tracklist]
SFO 005 16 tracks, 51 minutes £5.00
The legendary 1947 BBC Third Programme broadcast of the E J Moeran recordings from the celebrated singing pubs, Eastbridge Eel's Foot and Sutton Windmill. Featuring Jumbo Brightwell, Fred Ginger, Jack Clark, John 'Charger' Salmons, Charlie Chettleburgh, Harry Cox, Walter Gales, William Miller and Elijah Bell.
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