A List of Published References to Percy Grainger’s Folk Song Collecting, especially in Lincolnshire

Compiled by Derek Schofield

C.J. Bearman, ‘Percy Grainger, the Phonograph, and the Folk Song Society’, Music & Letters, 84, 3, August 2003, pp. 434-455.

C.J. Bearman, ‘Joseph Taylor’ in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004) – internet version accessed 17 November 2004

John Bird, Percy Grainger (Oxford University Press, 1999), second edition.

Bohlman, World Music: A Very Short Introduction Oxford University Press, 2002).

Coope, Boyes and Simpson, Triple Echo: Songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, George Butterworth and Percy Grainger. CD. (No Masters, 2005).

Gwilym Davies, ‘Percy Grainger's Folk Music Research in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Warwickshire, 1907-1909’, Folk Music Journal, 6, 3, 1992, pp. 339-358.

Gwilym Davies, Grainger in Gloucestershire: Songs and tunes collected by Percy Grainger in Gloucestershire and Warwickshire (The Author, 1994, reprinted 1995).

Dorothy de Val, ‘The Transformed Village: Lucy Broadwood and Folksong’ in Music and British Culture, 1785-1914: Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich, ed Christina Bashford and Leanne Langley (Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 341-366.

Kay Dreyfus, ed., The Farthest North of Humanness: Letters of Percy Grainger 1901-14 (Macmillan, 1985).

Tony Fairhurst ‘On The Record’ ;Folk News (East Yorkshire District), 100, March/May 1996, p. 18. (About Grainger and singer George Wray)

Malcolm Gillies and David Pear, Portrait of Percy Grainger (Rochester, NY University of Rochester Press, 2002)

Percy Grainger, ‘Collecting with the Phonograph’, Journal of the Folk Song Society, 12, 1908, pp. 147-242.

Ruairidh Greig, ‘Joseph Taylor from Lincolnshire: a biography of a singer’ in Folk Song: Tradition, Revival and Re-Creation, ed Ian Russell and David Atkinson (The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, 2004), pp. 386-392.

Dai Jeffries, ‘Tuning in to CBS’, Songbook, 6, Winter 2005, pp. 36-40 (Interview with Barry Coope about Coope, Boyes and Simpson's current work on songs collected by Ralph Vaughan Williams, Percy Grainger, George Butterworth and their approach to harmony singing).

David Josephson, ‘The case for Percy Grainger, Edwardian musician on his centenary’, in Music and Civilization: essays in honour of Paul Henry Lang (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1984) pp. 350-362.

Wilfred Mellors, Percy Grainger (Oxford: OUP, 1992)

Jane E. O'Brien, Percy Grainger: English folk song and the Grainger English folk song collection (Ph.D. thesis, La Trobe University, Victoria, 1979). Fiche copy.

Jane O'Brien, ‘A Folk Music Pioneer: Percy Grainger’, English Dance and Song, 44, 2, 1982 pp. 18-19.

Jane O’Brien Grainger English Folk Song Collection (University of Western Australia Department of Music, 1985).

Patrick O’Shaughnessy, ed., Lincolnshire Folk Songs from the Manuscript Collection of Percy Grainger (Oxford University Press, 1966).

Patrick O’Shaughnessy, ed., Twenty-one Lincolnshire Folk-Songs from the Manuscript Collection of Percy Grainger (Oxford University Press in conjunction with the Lincolnshire Association, 1968).

Patrick O’Shaughnessy, ed., More Folk Songs from Lincolnshire (Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts, 1983) second edition.

Patrick O’Shaughnessy, ed., Yellowbelly Ballads: a third selection of Lincolnshire folk-songs, the majority of them from the collection of Percy Aldridge Grainger Part One (Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts, 1975).

Patrick O’Shaughnessy, ed., Yellowbelly Ballads: a third selection of Lincolnshire folk-songs, the majority of them from the collection of Percy Aldridge Grainger Part Two (Lincolnshire and Humberside Arts, 1975).

Robert W. Pacey, Folk Music In Lincolnshire (D. Phil, St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford, 1978). Microfilm copy.

R. Pacey, ‘Percy Grainger’s Folk Song Collecting Tours in Lincolnshire in A Prospect of Lincolnshire, being collected articles on the history and traditions of Lincolnshire in honour of Ethel H. Rudkin, ed. Naomi Field and Andrew White (The Editors, Lincoln: 1984), pp. 119-125.

Tony Rees, ‘Joseph Taylor’ on Reinhard Zierke’s (Mostly) English Folk Music Website: http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~zierke/joseph.taylor/index.html

David Tall, ‘Grainger and Folksong’ in The Percy Grainger Companion, ed. Lewis Foreman (London: Thames, 1981). Chapter six, pp. 55-71.

Bob Thomson, notes accompanying the LP record Unto Brigg Fair: Joseph Taylor and other traditional Lincolnshire singers recorded in 1908 by Percy Grainger (Leader LEA 4050, 1972).

Michael Yates, ‘Percy Grainger and the Impact of the Phonograph’, Folk Music Journal, 4, 3, 1982, pp. 265-275.

[no author] ‘Country Gardens: The Cecil Sharp and Percy Grainger Letters’, English Dance and Song, 56, 2, 1994, p. 7.

With thanks to Malcolm Taylor, Vaughan Williams Memorial Library.