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Bitter ballads : ancient and modern poetry sung to medieval and traditional melodies.

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Format:
Sound recording
Author/Creator:
Hillier, Paul, performer.
Contributor:
Lawrence-King, Andrew.
Series:
Naxos Music Library.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Ballads, English.
English poetry--Musical settings.
English poetry.
Songs with harp.
Songs with psaltery.
Harp music, Arranged.
Genre:
Musical settings.
Streaming audio.
Sound recordings.
Ballads.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Place of Publication:
Los Angeles : Harmonia Mundi France, [1998]
Language Note:
Sung in English.
System Details:
digital recording
Contents:
Clever Tom Clinch going to be hanged / Jonathan Swift
The roundhead / Samuel Butler
London is a fine town / anonymous
London / William Blake
The fine old English gentleman / Charles Dickens
The great testament / Villon ; Lowell
Highland dance #1 : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton
Kiltory / Helen Adam
Highland dance #2 : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton
Shallow-water warning ; Song for a sea tower / Helen Adam
The ballad of Marie Farrar / Bertolt Brecht
Senza licenza : (harp solo) ; Invention : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton
Fine flowers in the valley / trad. ; [music by] Howard Skempton
Sappho : fragment / Sappho ; Lowell
The keel row I : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton
It was summer now / Gertrude Stein
The keel row II : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton
Disillusionment / Gertrude Stein
The cockfight : (harp solo) / Howard Skempton
Sailing to Byzantium / W.B. Yeats
Brigg fair : (harp solo) / [music] traditional
"Coda" : from Briggflatts / Basil Bunting.
Participant:
Paul Hillier, voice; Andrew Lawrence-King, harp or psaltery.
Notes:
For voice with harp or psaltery, and for harp.
"Production USA."
Recorded Apr. 6, 1996, and June 11-13, 1997, Skywalker Sound, Nicasio, CA.
Hard copy version record.
Other Format:
Source record: Hillier, Paul. Bitter ballads.
OCLC:
906569484
Publisher Number:
USHM19620401
USHM19620402
USHM19620403
USHM19620404
USHM19620405
USHM19620406
USHM19620407
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USHM19620421
USHM19620422
USHM19620423
USHM19620424
HMU907204 Harmonia Mundi
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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