IN a remarkable and famous passage in Religio Medici, Sir Thomas Browne says, “ There is a music wherever there is a harmony, order, or proportion ; and thus far we may maintain the ‘music of the ...

Geoffrey I. L. Gomme, R. V. H. Burne, M. F. Irvine, Harriet M. Smith, Florence M. Brown, Barbara Freire-Marreco and R. Dyke Acland Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore ...

Folklore is a fully peer-reviewed international journal of folklore and folkloristics. It is one of the earliest English-language journals in the field of folkloristics, first published as The ...

Folk Song in England. By Steve Roud. Faber & Faber; 764 pages; £25. To be published in America in September; $29.95. ENGLAND, the Germans used to jeer, was “the land without music”. They were wrong, ...

THE recent amalgamation of the Folk Song Society with the English Folk Dance Society has been marked by the appearance of a new journal with the title Journal of the English Folk Dance and Song ...

With earthy and arresting harmonies, The Watersons from Hull – originally Norma Waterson and her siblings, Lal and Mike Waterson and their cousin John — revived old English folk songs beginning in the ...

Step back in time this festive season and discover the magic of Hardwick Wintertide at Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire. From now ...

St. Swithin’s Day: In English folklore, July 15 is supposed to govern the weather for the following 40 days. Specifically, if it rains on St. Swithin’s Day, it will continue to rain for 40 more days.