The song O Christmas Tree is about why people love Christmas trees. It tells how these special trees stay green all winter, just like positive things in life, such as love and hope, that never fade ...

In every culture, specific tunes linger in the background of childhood, chanted on playgrounds, echoed in classrooms, or sung around campfires. These melodies often seem falsely simple but carry ...

Elizabethan songs. Man is for the woman made ; Come again, sweet love doth now invite ; Never weather-beaten saile ; I care not for these ladies ; Willow song ; The cypress curtaine of the night ; ...

The songs that Shirley Collins sings are like time capsules, each with vast histories waiting to be uncovered. Some have journeyed across decades, even centuries, shape-shifting and meeting each ...

Ralph Vaughan Williams was under the spell of English folk music when he wrote his English Folk Song Suite in 1923. We hear it played in concert by an ensemble called Sinfonia da Camera, conducted by ...

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 ...