Robert Burns Songs (Collins Scottish Archive)

Robert Burns Songs (Collins Scottish Archive)
Author: Robert Burns
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2016-11-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0008222622

A small format gift book which is a reproduction of the popular book ‘Songs Robert Burns’ originally published by Collins in 1947. Selected by G.F. Maine and written by burns between 1759 and 1796.

Robert Burns and Religion

Robert Burns and Religion
Author: Walter McGinty
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 277
Release: 2018-02-05
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1351771213

This title was first published in 2003. This text examines the role of religion in the life of the poet Robert Burns. Incorporating previously unexplored sources, and taking into consideration contemporary work on Burns, and on Scottish literature and history, author J. Walter McGinty presents an account of Burns's personal religion and the factors that helped to form it. McGinty begins by discussing the recurring themes in Burns's religious writings: a belief in a benevolent God; a hankering after, if not a hope, that there might be a life after death; and a sense of his own accountability. He then presents for comparison the religious poetry of two of Burns's contemporaries, William Cowper and Christopher Smart, usefully extending the discussion of Burns beyond the purely Scottish context. Finally, McGinty provides portraits of some of the ministers of "The Church of Scotland's Garland-A New Song", followed by an analysis of Burns's religious poetry.

Burns and Tradition

Burns and Tradition
Author: Mary Ellen Brown
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 198
Release: 1984-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349070874

A Wilkie Collins Songbook

A Wilkie Collins Songbook
Author: Allan W. Atlas
Publisher: A-R Editions, Inc.
Total Pages: 201
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1987208366

A Wilkie Collins Songbook consists of twenty-seven “everyday pieces” (three of them in two different versions each) that either appear in the novels and short stories of the Victorian author Wilkie Collins (1824–89) or were inspired by them. There is an overture for a stage production on which Collins collaborated with Charles Dickens; a number of pieces that reflect the popularity of The Woman in White (1860), which rocketed Collins to superstardom; and, forming the heart of the anthology, twenty ballads, patriotic songs, and traditional tunes that would have been well known to Collins's English (and American) readers. Among the twenty-two composers represented are: Francesco Berger (a regular at Dickens’s Sunday-evening card games); the prolific Walter Burnot, whose business card read “Songs Written While You Wait”; Charles Dibdin, and John Davy, as well as four women: Frances Arkwright, Clara Angela Macirone, Virtue Millard, and the mysterious American called “The Veiled Lady.” In all, the songbook provides an informative and entertaining romp through the everyday music of “Wilkie’s World.”

A Passionate Poet

A Passionate Poet
Author: Christopher Maycock
Publisher: Hypatia Publications
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2003
Genre: Poets, English
ISBN: 9781872229423

Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills

Notes and Sources for Folk Songs of the Catskills
Author: Norman Cazden
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1983-06-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 0791498646

Notes and Sources to Folk Songs of the Catskills, also published by the State University of New York Press, is the companion volume to Folk Songs of the Catskills. It contains extensive reference notes that exemplify and support detailed citations in the commentary preceding each song. The book also includes a comprehensive list of sources, including books, broadsides or pocket songsters, disc recordings, music publications, periodicals, tape archives, and other miscellaneous material, as well as information on variants, adaptations, comments or references, texts, and tunes. These notes are designed to provide succinct reference information.

Voice of the People

Voice of the People
Author: Corey Gibson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2015-06-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0748699961

Though Henderson is a major figure in Scottish cultural history, his reputation is largely maintained in anecdote and song. This study describes the ambitious moral-intellectual programme to reintegrate the artist in society at the heart of all of his endeavors.