English Folk-song and Dance
- ISBN-10
- 0874711045
- ISBN-13
- 9780874711042
- Category
- Music / Genres & Styles / Folk & Traditional
- Pages
- 178
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1915
- Publisher
- Rowman and Littlefield
- Authors
- Frank Kidson, Mary Neal
Description
"The work here reprinted is essentially in two parts, an examination of the history of the English folk-song by Frank Kidson, together with a similar analysis of the English folk-dance by Mary Neal"--Dust jacket flap.
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