Cecil Chapman interviewed by Rob Willis in the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 5056153
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Chapman, Cecil, 1932-, interviewee
- Online Access:
- National Library of Australia digital collection item.
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
-
- 2010
- 1 sound file (ca. 67 min.)
- Series:
- Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
- Technical Details:
- Mode of access: Online.
- Summary:
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Folkloric recording. Cecil Chapman talks about the places where his father played the fiddle; his father's fiddle tuning style; other fiddle players from the area, Alec Kyle, Billy Kyle and George Fuller: musicians gathering to play as individuals and not in a group, the size of their repertoire; Stephen Foster melodies. He plays on his fiddle and sings.
- Partial contents:
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- Plays tunes: Why don't they play with me
- When I went to Germany
- When I went to Germany (repeat)
- The pink lady
- Cock of the North
- Moonlight waltz
- Polka (unidentified)
- Schottishe (unidentified)
- Mazurka (unidentified)
- Polka (unidentified)
- Turn on the tide (waltz)
- Ring the bell watchman
- Mockingbird Hill
- On board (waltz)
- Hornpipe (unidentified)
- Trip it up (barndance)
- Tying a leaf
- Only a leaf
- After the ball
- Redwing
- Bird in a gilded cage
- Maxina (unidentified). Singing: The mermaid
- Widdicombe Fair
- unidentified song
- Uncle Tom Cobley. Playing fiddle and singing: Kelvin Grove. Playing tunes: When I went to Germany
- The Gordon schottische
- The Boston two-step
- June Rose waltz
- Midnight waltz
- Sunny waltz
- Jolly Miller
- Jock O'Hazledean (waltz)
- Maggie.
- Notes:
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- Summary accompanied by photograph and DVD.
- Recorded on 1 December 2010 in Kempsey, N.S.W.
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (3 p.)
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Willis, Rob, 1944-, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Rob and Olya Willis folklore collection.
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