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As I Walked Out - Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall (Paperback)
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As I Walked Out - Sabine Baring-Gould and the Search for the Folk Songs of Devon and Cornwall (Paperback)
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Shortly before his death, the Devonshire-born cleric, writer and
antiquarian, Sabine Baring-Gould (1834-1924) wrote: 'To this day I
consider that the recovery of our West Country melodies has been
the principal achievement of my life.' Though there have been a
number of biographies of this Victorian polymath, none has looked
in detail at his role as a leading figure in the English folk song.
Most of Baring-Gould's childhood was spent travelling in Europe
with his family. Away from the influences of a conventional
education he explored the mythology, romances and folklore of
northern Europe and took particular delight in the Icelandic sagas.
He entered the church at the age of thirty and became a curate in
Yorkshire where he accumulated folk tales, riddles and the first of
the thousands of traditional songs he collected during his long
life. He inherited the Lew Trenchard estate in Devon to become both
squire and parson of this little parish. It was in 1888 that a
chance remark at dinner prompted his hunt for old songs in the area
around his home. From Lew Trenchard he travelled around Devon and
Cornwall to meet the singers in their pubs and their cottages and
to coax them to part with their old songs. He used his celebrity
status as a leading novelist and writer to bring the folk songs of
the West Country to a wider audience through his publications,
lectures, costume concerts and the first folk opera, Red Spider,
based on one of his novels and on songs he had heard. The books of
songs that he published have been criticised for the way in which
he edited them for publication, striking out coarse material or
rewriting songs but, in doing so, he was acknowledging the limits
and demands of public taste of his time. Martin Graebe has been
fascinated by Baring-Gould for many years, but the re-discovery of
a large quantity of his personal papers in 1992 propelled him
towards a re-evaluation of Baring-Gould's work on folk song. What
he has uncovered is a fascinating collaborative project between
Baring-Gould and the musicians, singers and ordinary members of the
public in Devon and Cornwall. He also looks at his relationships
with other folk song collectors such as Lucy Broadwood, Ralph
Vaughan Williams and Cecil Sharp. This book will be of interest,
not just to enthusiasts for English folk song, but also to those
who wish to know more about their place in the lives of the
ordinary people of the late nineteenth century.
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