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...Most histories of Greek Literature," he said, "take it as an established fact that the Homeric epics were the earliest crystallization of folk-song in the ancient world that might properly be termed poetry, and that all poetic song has descended from them and from them alcne. As a matter of fact, the molpe, antedating the Iliad and Odyssey by many years, is the true spring of song for which the historians are looking...
...Glee Club then turned to the realm of folk-song and in the Scotch and Irish ballads they sang with a fire and lilt which delighted the audience. The Bach finale, despite the too liberal use of brasses and organ, was a veritable burst of glory...
April 9.--Archibald Thompson Davison '06, Associate Professor of Music, Organist and Choirmaster, "Folk-Song" with illustrations by Harvard and Radcliffe students...
Last but not least (to be trite), came Glazmov's "Steuka Razine". It is a fine work, equally enjoyable with or without the program. It shows clearly to a Boston audience the difference between artistic treatment of a folk-song and melodramatic claptrap, in its version of the droning Volgar bargemen's song...
Other numbers will follow from time to time. The songs thus far published are: My Bonny Lass Thomas Morley Spread your wings Cesar Autonovitch Cui Now is the month of Maying Thomas Morley Has Sorrow thy young days shaded Irish Folk-Song Lo, how a rose e'er blooming Michael Praetorius In Dulci Jubilo Ancient German Carol Matona, lovely maiden Orlando di Lasso