The English Soundtrack

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Amidst the masterful roster are some standout pieces of English classical music that both music history, and today’s classical music tastes, tell us audiences can’t get enough of – be that because of how ground-breaking they were in their time, or just because of the darn marvellous melodies they showcase. Cecil Sharp's interest in the region was largely confined to the south, particularly the Cotswold morris villages of Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, which provided him with an archetype of English ceremonial dance. The maritime heritage of Devon made sea shanties, hornpipes and naval or sea ballads important parts of regional folk music. Our understanding of this music is limited by a lack of written sources for much of what was an oral culture.

Despite this neglect there was an active folk scene in the region, which produced several key artists of the second revival from the 1960s, including Anne Briggs from Nottinghamshire, The Settlers from the West Midlands and from Birmingham one of the most influential groups of the period, the Ian Campbell Folk Group, which numbered among its members later British folk rock musicians Dave Swarbrick and Dave Pegg. Francis James Child's (1825–96) eight-volume collection The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882–92) became the most influential in defining the repertoire of subsequent performers, and Cecil Sharp (1859–1924), founder of the English Folk Dance Society, was probably the most important figure in understanding of the nature of folk song.

I was really grateful and excited to play this role of Eli, and I think it’s just a new way of looking at a Western. dance Polka 2/2 and 4/4 dances Barn dance Highland Fling Hornpipe Reel Strathspey 3/4 dances Waltz 6/8 dances Jig Two-step 9/8 dances Slip jig Non-dance tunes Marches and airs which exist in various meters. The most significant British folk rock group from the region were the Oyster Band, formed in Canterbury, while guitarist John Martyn came from Surrey and fiddle player Chris Leslie from Banbury in Oxfordshire.

The number of clubs began to decline in the 1980s, in the face of changing musical and social trends. In the 1980s the anarchist rock band Chumbawamba recorded several versions of traditional English protest as English Rebel Songs 1381–1914. T. Buckland, Dancing from Past to Present: Nation, Culture, Identities (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), p. The name is thought to derive from the term 'moorish dance', for Spanish (Muslim) styles of dance and may derive from English court dances of the period. The short-lived Northumbrian Small Pipes Society was founded in Newcastle in 1893 and the Northumbrian Pipers' Society in 1928, and they are generally credited with keeping the distinctive tradition alive.It was not until the early 1970s that the broader heritage of the region, including the many industrial and work songs associated with mining or The Potteries, began to gain serious attention. English composer Rachel Portman won an Oscar for her ravishing score for the 1996 film adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, starring Gwyneth Paltrow.