2020: Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs
Exploring Musical Resemblance, 10 and 11 October 2020
The third Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs conference was an online event. The conference brought together researchers working on ‘traditional’ and ‘popular’ tunes as transmitted and transformed in all manner of musical styles and genres, performance contexts, levels of society, historical periods, and geographical locations.
Topics included:
- ‘JOY to great Caesar’: Origins and Influence of Popular Songs on Farinel’s Ground in late Seventeenth-Century England
- Collecting Tunes in Eighteenth-Century England
- ‘Known to all the vagrant train’: Ifor Ceri and Music in Georgian Wales
- Analysing the Jigs in the James Goodman Collection
- lliterate Lawbreaking Villains? Copying & Copyright in Nineteenth-Century Manuscripts
- Textural Transformations of a Turkish Modernist: Saygun’s Ten Sketches on Aksak Rhythms, op.58 no.1
- Influence of Traditional Structures in Creative Processes: Passive or Decisive?
2018: Traditional Folk Song: Past, Present & Future
Saturday 10 to Sunday 11 November 2018
Folk song, the everyday music of the common people as passed from generation to generation, has been highly debated ever since the first attempts by early collectors to define it. It has been performed, collected, researched, and unpicked, and the defining qualities which make it unique continue to stimulate current debate and approaches to collecting.
This conference presented the latest research in folk song in all its possible contexts and forms. Topics included:
- Social history through song
- Historic collectors
- Authenticity and folk
- Song and social culture
- Folk for contemporary purposes
- Print and the tradition
- Performance
- Traditional English singers and their songs
- Revival repertoire
- Post-war collectors
