The Old Songs of Skye: Frances Tolmie and Her Circle

Bassin, Ethel. Bowman, Derek (ed.)

ISBN 10: 071008546X / ISBN 13: 9780710085467

Published by Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1977

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Pp: xxi + 227. Silver titles: sp. Frontis. Illust. w/ b/w musical scores, photos, portraits & facsim. docs. (listed). Purple cloth bds. Decorative map endpapers. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Biography of the Hebridean Gaelic folklore and folksong expert Frances Tolmie. Includes notes, appendices, index of song titles, English titles; Gaelic titles & index to persons. A very nice copy. Phuirt-a-Beul anyone? Seller Inventory # 003623

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Old Songs of Skye: Frances Tolmie and ...

Publisher: Routledge & Kegan Paul, London

Publication Date: 1977

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Good+

Edition: First Edition

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Synopsis:

Hardback book with dust jacket titled OLD SONGS OF SKYE:Frances Tolmie and Her Circle. (LL-2-middle-L)

About the Author:

Ethel Bassin, well-known teacher and music festival organizer, spent her childhood in Edinburgh, and taught in Portree before going to Canada to lecture in the University of British Columbia on music methods. While there she wrote a number of playlets with English dialogue and Gaelic songs, which she produced at festivals. She then went to London to edit Rural Music, and returned in 1939 to the Hebrides, where she collected folksongs. Later she became Music Teacher at Dingwall Academy in Ross-shire and was still revising this book at the time of her death in 1974.