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 ...

The songs that Shirley Collins sings have been handed down over centuries and traveled across oceans. And now at age 85, the woman who has been called the first lady of English folk music has a new ...

Japanese folk songs evolved in the same way as English language ones even though they are sung in different tones and scales. Patrick Savage at Keio University in Japan and his colleagues analysed the ...

In its essence, folk music is music for the people — an art form inextricably intertwined with the soul of a region. Its nature is inherently visual, conjuring vivid imagery with just a single ...

Carthy wears his considerable history lightly. His album was reflective without being nostalgic or complacent, building on a lifetime’s commitment to the performance and interpretation of traditional ...

In a world where some argue that mankind has totally abandoned tradition while others profess that tradition is what is holding us back, Neil Luck and Mimi Doulton demonstrate that it is possible to ...

IT is only in recent years that with the active collection and study of European folk-lore the folksong and folk-dance have begun to receive the attention which they deserve. The collecting of English ...

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 ...

Of interest to anyone with an interest in social history the English Folk Dance and Song Society have launched their online archive. Quite a long time in the making the slightly dubiously named 'Full ...

Karen Hopkin: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. You’re probably familiar with the concept of evolution. Living things evolve by accumulating genetic changes, which are ...

Vatican II allowed the presence of “the music of the people” at Mass. Folk music, the music that is indigenous to each of the various nations of the world and to the ethnic cultures found within those ...