Originally published in 1977. Frances Tolmie (1840-1926) was one of the foremost Gaelic folklore and folksong experts. This account of her life and work places her unique contribution to human song against a full personal, historical and cultural background. The book includes a selection of the songs she heard and wrote down, together with the part they played in her life and that of her circle and the larger community. Moving in a variety of circles, Frances Tolmie experienced the warm domesticity of an enlightened Skye ...
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Originally published in 1977. Frances Tolmie (1840-1926) was one of the foremost Gaelic folklore and folksong experts. This account of her life and work places her unique contribution to human song against a full personal, historical and cultural background. The book includes a selection of the songs she heard and wrote down, together with the part they played in her life and that of her circle and the larger community. Moving in a variety of circles, Frances Tolmie experienced the warm domesticity of an enlightened Skye manse, the cultural bustle of upper middle-class Edinburgh 'entrepreneurs', the romantic serious-mindedness of the first Cambridge women students, the sensitive nature-loving community round Ruskin at Coniston, and spent her later sociable years back in Scotland. This book, with its historical introduction by Flora MacLeod and musical introduction by Frank Howes along with Ethel Bassin's own detailed introduction, reflects her profound study of the song and folklore of her people, and describes how she recorded a precious part of British traditional culture, catching it alive and sharing it as truly as possible.
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Add this copy of Old Songs of Skye: Frances Tolmie and Her Circle to cart. $32.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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Near Fine in very good + jacket. First edition, 1977. Cloth hardcover in a dust jacket, 227 pp., clean unmarked text, Near Fine copy in Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket, a bit of age-toning to the outer pages and the page-edges, light rubbing to the tips of the book's covers, some soiling and discoloration to the dust jacket, light edgewear to the dust jacket including minor creasing at the tips. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
Add this copy of The Old Songs of Skye: Frances Tolmie and Her Circle to cart. $58.99, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by Routledge & K. Paul.
Add this copy of Old Songs of Skye: Frances Tolmie and Her Circle to cart. $25.50, very good condition, Sold by Maxwell's House of Books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from La Mesa, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1977 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Books.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall A beautiful clean crisp hardcover copy in very good condition, light age toning to pastedowns. DJ in very good condition with light sunning at spine, now in protective mylar cover.
