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Title A treasury of the world's finest folk song / collected and arranged by Leonhard Deutsch ; with explanatory text by Claude Simpson ; lyrics versified by Willard Trask ; illustrations by Emery I. Gondor.

Publication Info. New York City : Howell, Soskin, [1942]
©1942

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  784.4 DEU    Check Shelf
Description 1 score (430 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Note For voice and piano; some songs have two voice parts.
In English.
With historical and ethnographic notes.
Contents Swedish. Come, pretty ; Värmeland ; Joy in heaven ; It cannot be ; All day while I'm at work ; Perhaps when lilies bloom ; I sit alone -- Norwegian. A girl fifteen ; Homecoming from summer pastures ; Thank you, no! ; Cowherd's song -- Danish. Osborn Snare's courtship ; Good evening, my pretty -- German. Rose garden ; Count and nun ; I heard a scythe ; When will you come again? ; Now we must part ; Weep no more ; The dream -- Flemish. Pierlala ; Let us quaff ; A dew from heaven -- English. Go no more arushing ; The spring is acoming ; Sing ovy, sing ivy -- Scottish. On a bank of flowers ; The wee croodin' doo ; The lea rig ; Cuckoo of the grove -- Irish. Irish girl ; The girl I left behind me ; On and on ; Come rest in this bosom ; Roisin Dubh -- Welsh. The grey old stone ; Elegy of Ivor of Keri -- French. Find work, my daughter ; Farandole ; Springtime is here ; It is May ; Lullaby ; Sweet nightingale ; Mayday -- Italian. Mother, the bells are ringing ; Before I had found a sweetheart ; All beauty within you ; Lullaby ; Saltarella ; The shark (tarantella) ; Neopolitan fisher's song ; La Scillitana (the girl from Scilla) ; When I raise my eyes -- Spanish. Seguidilla from La Mancha ; Harvesting -- Catalan. Nightingale -- Basque. The violet -- Finnish. All alone ; Come back to me ; The rose bush ; We've had a dance ; A ring around her finger ; At the cherry tree ; Rallialei ; The birch tree -- Lettish. The bee tree ; I will tell you ; The pledged horse ; Who is crying? -- Lithuanian. Sister, the sun is rising ; Little horse of mine ; Oh how he scolded ; By my window ; Husband and wife ; Long I have woven -- Russian. Woman's sad lot ; The troika ; Take me, Earth ; Charm ; Round-dance ; Novgorod's bells -- Ukrainian. Ah, that day ; Elder blooming ; The letter writer ; One is high, and one is low ; Cossack's farewell ; You are a bride -- Polish. Boat, my good companion ; I sowed a millet ; Yasha and Kasha ; Rosemary, lovely garland ; Stands a maple ; Wind of night ; You could see my faith ; Love oracle -- Wendish. Vain serenade ; Good night ; Hanka -- Yiddish. By our cottage ; What maidens want ; Girls of today ; The poor aunt ; The tailor boy ; Lullaby -- Bohemian. The soldier ; Andulko ; Yenitchku ; The promise ; Swallows are flying ; Tell me, dear -- Moravian. Where the grass is growing ; There's no room for you ; Don't get married ; You shall never have the ring ; Would I were a pigeon -- Slovakian. Darling, come early ; Coughing ; Go away, you wicked fellows! ; Wives aren't like maidens ; We are poor ; Let me keep faith ; Seed I planted ; Fading youth ; The slovak ; Pretty miller's daughter ; Anitchka ; Goodnight ; Could you not come ; Evening star ; Early, my dear ; Nitra's bells ; The Czardas ; Water running ; Mother, stop grumbling! -- Hungarian. Latzika and Marishka ; In my yard violets ; That's my girl ; I've a purse ; The fisherman ; Pleased to meet you! ; Wine I drink ; I have torn my Sunday jacket ; The hussar ; Love's my permit ; Cherry gathering ; The draftee ; Gipsy tinker ; Forget the world ; Szilvas Village ; Woe, woe, mother mine -- Bosnian. Kolo ; Coin I need -- Serbian. Mercy, beauty ; Rises the sun -- Montenegrin. Lullaby -- Bulgarian. Yelenka ; Ganka -- Macedonian. The ferryman of Lake Okhrida ; Yanko -- Rumanian. Ardeleana ; We must part ; Cuckoo ; What a world! ; Stancutza -- Greek. The curse ; Mount Agrafa -- American. The Putney hymn ; Go ter sleep! ; O death! ; Over Jordan ; Crucufixion.
Form Also issued online.
Subject Folk songs -- Europe.
Folk songs -- United States.
Songs with piano.
Vocal duets with piano.
Added Author Deutsch, Leonhard, 1887-1952.
Simpson, Claude, 1906-
Trask, Willard R. (Willard Ropes), 1900-1980.
Gondor, Emery I.
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