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The Old Songs of Skye - Frances Tolmie and Her Circle (Hardcover)
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The Old Songs of Skye - Frances Tolmie and Her Circle (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Folk Music
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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.
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