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David Daiches. Meanwhile , Scottish folk - music was enjoying a revival . Collections of folk - airs appeared in large numbers , some- times with words , sometimes as dance tunes . It became a fashionable pastime among ladies and ...
David Daiches. Meanwhile , Scottish folk - music was enjoying a revival . Collections of folk - airs appeared in large numbers , some- times with words , sometimes as dance tunes . It became a fashionable pastime among ladies and ...
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... dance tunes , he was of course going much beyond the editorial and improving tasks he undertook for Johnson and ... tunes and dance tunes and saw to it that they each had words properly fitted , if necessary alter- ing the pace and ...
... dance tunes , he was of course going much beyond the editorial and improving tasks he undertook for Johnson and ... tunes and dance tunes and saw to it that they each had words properly fitted , if necessary alter- ing the pace and ...
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David Daiches. out a quality that had been lost in speeding it up for dance purposes . He could sing the songs of either sex . No man has ever captured the feminine delight in prospective mother- hood combined with the feminine joy in ...
David Daiches. out a quality that had been lost in speeding it up for dance purposes . He could sing the songs of either sex . No man has ever captured the feminine delight in prospective mother- hood combined with the feminine joy in ...
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