| Ref No | MS 4000/5/3/2/30 |
| Title | Recording of a BBC radio broadcast, 'Great events and small': the seventh of a weekly series of 13 programmes about folklore and music, called 'Songs of the People', presented by A.L.Lloyd, based on BBC Sound Archive recordings. |
| Level | File |
| Date | n.d. [1972] |
| Description | Songs from the folk tradition in different parts of the world.
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.37 Description of track: Test tone
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 3.12 Description of track: Song 'John Morrisey' from Ireland
Track 3: Song 'The death of Mr Garfield', 1877 from the U.S.A.
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 2.51 Description of track: Song 'Bulgaria is weeping', 1876
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 1.06 Description of track: Sam Larner Song 'The bonny bunch of roses' (about Napoleon)
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 1.58 Description of track: Donald McKinnon of Barra Song 'The day of the war of the speckled church' about the Jacobite rising, in Gaelic
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 2.08 Description of track: Music 'The Yaishen tragedy' played on the Chinese harp
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 3.21 Description of track: Song about Ali Pasha from west Georgia
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 2.12 Description of track: Rumanian wedding song
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 2.19 Description of track: South Russian wedding song
Track 11: Duration (min/sec): 3.36 Description of track: Micky Docherty West of Ireland fiddle tune about a fox hunt
Track 12: Duration (min/sec): 2.33 Description of track: Music played on drums about the first fairground roundabout in Uganda and end of programme announcement
Track 13: Duration (min/sec): 7.18 Description of track: Silence
Total duration: (min/sec): 37.14 |
| Physical Description | Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number NF220T0919374
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 Stereo
Dubbing Date: 03/03 |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |