WordPress reminded me of a blog post I authored a few years ago. Since I’m still thinking both about folk songs and lady piano teachers …I thought I’d share it again. Who wrote the books? Who wrote the songs? Two important questions.
I was being a dutiful music librarian yesterday, when I looked up the Tonic Sol-Fa proponents John Curwen and his son J. Spencer Curwen, to see what of their output was in the Conservatoire library. My first shock was discovering that we had catalogued a couple of Mrs J. Spencer Curwen’s piano teaching books under […]
Folksongs: did they Grow, or were they Made?
