| Ref No | MS 4000/5/3/1/12 |
| Title | 'A Ballad Hunter looks at Britain: 8'. The eighth of eight programmes about British folk music, by Alan Lomax, in the company of Seamus Ennis and Peter Kennedy. Music from Ireland.
And the fourth of five programmes in the BBC Third programme series 'Epic Survivals in Europe, Africa and Asia', general editor A. L. Lloyd: 'The Asiatic Epic' introduced by Dr. Arnold Barker.'This is incomplete; continued on MS 4000/5/3/1/13. |
| Level | File |
| Date | n.d. [1957; 1963] |
| Description | Tracks 1 to 18 have 'The Ballad Hunter in Ireland' programme.
Tracks 20 to 32 have the first part (continued on MS 4000/ 5.3.1.13) of the 'Asiatic Epic' programme.
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 1.10 Description of track: Mary O'Hara Song 'In the quiet land of Erin'
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 1.15 Description of track: Paddy Tunny Song
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 1.15 Description of track: Song in Gaelic translated by Seamus Ennis
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 1.35 Description of track: Seamus Ennis Song 'By the banks of the roses'
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 1.29 Description of track: Ann Jane Kelly from Armagh Song 'The Magpie's nest'
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 1.37 Description of track: Seamus Ennis Song 'The Rake of Limerick' translated from Gaelic
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 1.13 Description of track: Not named Song 'The wee far down' (Derry)
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 1.33 Description of track: The McPeaks (Northern Irish) Song 'Jug of Punch'
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 2.16 Description of track: The McPeaks (Northern Irish) Song 'Wild Mountain Thyme'
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 1.55 Description of track: Maggie and Sarah Murphy (Northern Irish) Song 'The Gaberlunzie Man'
Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 2.57 Description of track: Sarah Makeham Local (Northern Irish) song about a man saved from the scaffold
Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 2.08 Description of track: Paddy Doran Travellers' songs: Song 'Raggle taggle gypsies'
Track 13: Duration (min/sec): 0.45 Description of track: Paddy Doran Song 'Roving journeyman'
Track 14: Duration (min/sec): 0.54 Description of track: Fiddle tune and country orchestra
Track 15: Duration (min/sec): 1.52 Description of track: Micky Doherty Story about the fairies and music. Fiddle tune 'Queen of the Fairies'.
Track 16: Duration (min/sec): 2.02 Description of track: Not named Modern folk song 'The Hot Ashphalt'
Track 17: Duration (min/sec): 1.24 Description of track: Dominic Behan Song 'The auld triangle', at Mountjoy Prison, Dublin
Track 18: Duration (min/sec): 2.00 Description of track: Mary O'Hara 'The Quiet land of Erin'
Track 19: Duration (min/sec): 0.18 Description of track: Silence
Track 20: Duration (min/sec): 1.40 Description of track: Programme announcement
Track 21: Duration (min/sec): 4.16 Description of track: Arnold Barker Interplay of voice and instrument
Track 22: Duration (min/sec): 1.16 Description of track: Recitative music from the Balkans
Track 23: Duration (min/sec): 2.01 Description of track: Recitative music from Turkey
Track 24: Duration (min/sec): 1.42 Description of track: Recitative music from Khazakhstan
Track 25: Duration (min/sec): 1.28 Description of track: Story from Mongolia about the creation of a musical instrument from a horse's head
Track 26: Duration (min/sec): 2.17 Description of track: The Tibetan 'damyan'(?) and musical instruments from animal skulls
Track 27: Duration (min/sec): 2.03 Description of track: [recording from wax cylinder]
Track 28: Duration (min/sec): 1.20 Description of track: [recording from wax cylinder] unaccompanied singing
Track 29: Duration (min/sec): 3.22 Description of track: The songs of the Kasa epic
Track 30: Duration (min/sec): 1.15 Description of track: Tibetan singing
Track 31: Duration (min/sec): 2.53 Description of track: Tibetan refugees in Sikim
Track 32: Duration (min/sec): 3.53 Description of track: Indian epic The Rhamayana. Religious storytelling
Track 33: Duration (min/sec): 0.37 Description of track: Silence
Total duration: (min/sec): 59.41 |
| Physical Description | Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number NF220T0945874
Original tape:
Size: 7" tape reel
Gauge: 1/4" tape (0.625cm)
Speed: 7.5ips (19cm/s);
EQ Curve used: IEC
Track configuration: Half Track Mono
Dubbing Date: 03/03 |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |