The old songs of Skye : Frances Tolmie and her circle / Ethel Bassin ; edited by Derek Bowman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bassin, Ethel., author.

Contributor:

Bowman, Derek.

Series:

Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music

Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tolmie, Frances, 1840-1926--Friends and associates.

Tolmie, Frances.

Folk songs, Scottish Gaelic--Scotland--Skye, Island of.

Folk songs, Scottish Gaelic.

Folk music--Scotland--Skye, Island of.

Folk music.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.

Summary:

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. The book includes a selection of the songs she heard and wrote down, together with the part they played in her life and that of her circle and the larger community. Moving in a variety of circles, Frances Tolmie experienced the warm domesticity of an enlightened Skye manse, the cultural bustle of upper middle-class Edinburgh 'entrepreneurs', the romantic serious-mindedness of the first Cambridge women students, the sensitive nature-loving community round Ruskin at Coniston, and spent her later sociable years back in Scotland. This book, with its historical introduction by Flora MacLeod and musical introduction by Frank Howes along with Ethel Bassin's own detailed introduction, reflects her profound study of the song and folklore of her people, and describes how she recorded a precious part of British traditional culture, catching it alive and sharing it as truly as possible.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Plates; Historical foreword by Dame Flora MacLeod of MacLeod; Musical foreword by Frank Howes; Introduction and acknowledgments; 1 Uiginish, Skye, 1840-4; 2 Rudha an Dùnain, Strontian, Bracadale, 1845-57; 3 Edinburgh, 1857-8; 4 Bracadale, 1858-62; 5 Edinburgh, 1862-6; 6 Portree, Nairn, North Uist, Contin, 1866-73; 7 Cambridge, 1873-4; 8 Coniston, 1874-95; 9 Oban, 1895-1900; 10 Oban, Edinburgh, 1900-7; 11 Edinburgh, 1908-11. The Folk-Song Society; 12 Edinburgh, 1907-15

13 Songs of the Hebrides14 Dunvegan, 1915-26; 15 Conclusion; Notes; Appendices; A Chronological table of the songs in the Journal of the Folk-Song Society, vol. iv, no. 16, London, December 1911; B Songs which Frances Tolmie gave to Marjory Kennedy-Fraser; C Different versions of A' Bhean Eudach; D Reminiscences of Miss Frances Tolmie; E Frances Tolmie's story, 'Oirig and Gormul'; Index of song titles, English titles; Gaelic titles; Index to persons

Notes:

First published in 1977 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-65180-7

1-317-31113-2

9781315651804

OCLC:

958109102