Performers:
Urdiales, Millán, recitation in Spanish A1-9, 12;
Shaw de Urdiales, Patricia (English wife of above Spaniard) recitation in Spanish A10-11;
Reina Family (Venezuela), singing in Spanish A13, 19-23;
Reina, Federico, cuatro (guitarra) solo A14-18;
Unidentified performers, speech in English B1, singing in French B1;
Unidentified performer, speech in English C1;
Kohnen, Robert, harpsichord solo C1;
Alarius Ensemble of Brussels C1;
Wachsmann, K.P, speech in English C2;
Unidentified performers, singing in African C2;
Shields, Norah, Belfast, age 58 (Hugh's mother), singing in English D1, 6, 11, 13, recitation in English D9-10, 12, 15-17, speech in English D13, 15-17;
Keaney, Mrs. Eileen, Belfast, formerly Glenelly, co. Tyrone (see Ceol 2 no 1 pp 6-10,no 3 pp 62-66) ,singing in Irish D2, speech in English D3, singing in English D3-5,;
Shields, Robert John, Belfast, (Hugh's father), singing in English D7, 14, recitation in English D8;
Butcher, Eddie Aughil, Magilligan, co. Derry [1900-1980], recitation in English D18-21, singing in English D22-27;
Gunning, Marion, recitation in English D28;
'Aunt Judy' (Russian emigre? living in Dublin) Recitations in Russian D29, singing in French D29;
Simms, Katharine, Dublin, age 15, singing in English D30;
Simms, Hilary, Dublin, age 11, singing in English D31;
(John Whitworth, Gerald English, Edgar Fleet, Marylin Wales, Edith Lake, Archy Camden), singing in French, Provencal and Latin, and group instrumentals E1;
Unidentified performer, speech in English E1;
Unidentified performer, speech in English E2;
Unidentified performers, singing in African E2;
Rimmer, Joan, speech in English F1;
Richards Jones, Nancy, triple harp solo F1;
Loyd, A.L, speech in English G1;
Elliot, John, singing in English G1;
Elliot, Jack, singing in English G1;
Killen, Lou, singing in English G1;
Unidentified performers, choral singing H1
Running Order:
1. El Conde Arnaldos, romance [old ballad] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
2. Romance del prisionero, romance [old ballad] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
3. Fonte frida, romance [old ballad] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
4. La batalla de Roncesvalles (‘Mala la vistes, franceses, la caza de Roncesvalles...’), romance [old ballad] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
5. La batalla de Roncesvalles (‘En París esta Dona Alda...’), romance [old ballad] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
6. Ayer vite en la fonte, poem [from [Maud] Karpeles, folk songs of Europe / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
7. Romance de la luna, luna, poem [by Federico García Lorca] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
8. La casada infiel, poem [by Lorca / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
9. A Don Francisco Giner de los Ríos [by Antonio Machado] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Spanish
10. Que no quiero amores en Inglaterra, poem / Patricia Shaw de Urdiales, speech in Spanish
11. Miraba la mar la malcasada, poem / Patricia Shaw de Urdiales, speech in Spanish
12. Os Lusiadas, poem [by Luís de Camões, extract] / Millán Urdiales, speech in Portuguese
13. Mampolorio, song [sung at the death of a child: first track from radio programme: on Venezuelan folk music, presented by A.L. Lloyd, and sung by the Reina family. BBC 3rd programme, 2 September 1962 [tracks 13-23, recorded off air] / Reina family member, singing in Spanish, guitar
14. Tune: Whip-tune, tune / Federico Reina, ‘cuatro’ [4-stringed guitar]
15. Tune: Caricario, classical dance tune ‘folklorized; / Reina family member, ‘cuatro’ [4-stringed guitar]
16. Tune: Uno y catorce, tune / Reina family, ‘cuatro’ guitar ; percussion [maramba?]
17. Tune: Joropo - El gavilan (pasaje), tune / Reina family, 2 ‘cuatro’ guitars ; moraja?
18. Tune: Joropo, tune / Reina family, 2 ‘cuatro’ guitars ; moraja?
19. A mi negra la quiero, song / Reina family, singing in Spanish ; ‘cuatro’ guitar
20. Velada de la cruz; Todas las floren se fueron, songs [quasi-religious] / female Reina family member [child?] performer), song / Reina family, singing in Spanish to guitars
21. Corrido - A la una, song, / Reina family, guitar
22. Songs: Aguinaldo tun-tun?, song / female Reina family member, singing in Spanish to guitar
23. Quién es? Gente de paz, song [Christmas carol], / Reina family, guitars
24. Aucassin & Nicolette, radio programme [English adaptation of the medieval French chantefable, incomplete, recorded off air, BBC 3rd programme, 1962 or 1963] [end of band one]
25. Rameau’s harpsichord music, radio programme [recorded off air from BBC third programme], speech ; baroque music / unidentified presenter, speech in English ; Robert Kohnen, harpsichord solo ; Alarius ensemble of Brussels, various instruments
26. [Domestic recording of a BBC 3rd programme radio rebroadcast [of 31 January 1965] Epic Survivals no 3 (of 5) ‘Traces of the epic in Africa’, by K.P. Wachsmann, presented by K.P Wachsmann, reader Denys Hawthorne, 25 May 1963] / K.P Wachsmann, speech in English ; Denys Hawthorne, speech in English ; various performers singing in African dialects, various native instruments. [The series editor was A.L. Lloyd. Nos 1, 2 and 5 are on 6108 (CID239818) No 3 is on 6106 (CID 55169), no 4 on 6113 (CID 239880)]
27. My aunt Jane, song / Mrs Norah Shields, singing in English
28. Thíos ag teach an torraimh, song, / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in Irish
29. Poor Toby is dead, talk about the following ; song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, speech in English, singing in English
30. Here are the robbers coming through, song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
31. Henry Joy McCracken, song / Mrs Eileen Keaney, singing in English
32. Green gravel (‘Dear Dolly dear Dolly...’), song [3 lines only] / Mrs Norah Shields, singing in English
33. Our queen up the river, song / Robert John Shields, singing in English
34. Granma granma Gray, rhyme / Robert John Shields, speech in English
35. Granma granma Gray, rhyme / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
36. Eettle attle blue bottle, rhyme / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
37. One two three alery, song / Mrs Norah Shields, singing in English
38. A rah chickapa, rhyme [‘counting out for tig’] / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
39. Here are the robbers, talk about the following ; song / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English, singing in English
40. Our queen can burl her leg / Robert John Shields, singing in English
41. One potato, two potato, talk about the following ; rhyme / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
42. As I went over Corney hill, talk about the following ; rhyme / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
43. In mud eels is, talk about the following ; rhyme / Mrs Norah Shields, speech in English
44. As I went over Corney hill, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
45. As I was going to St. Ives, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
46. How many feet has forty sheep, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
47. Twenty six sheep, rhyme / Eddie Butcher, speech in English
48. My aunt Jane, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
49. When a man’s in love, song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
50. The old plaid shawl (‘Not far from Conamara when the merry month of May...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
51. The croppy boy (‘Good men and true in this house who dwell...’), song / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
52. Longfield bank (‘On a dull October morning...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
53. Anglers on the Roe(‘ Come gather round you fishermen...’), song [words by Eddie Butcher] / Eddie Butcher, singing in English
54. In and out go the dusty bluebells, rhyme / Marion Cunning, speech in English [end of band two]
55. Babushki ladushki, song [for children] ; Do do, l’enfant do, lullaby.; Morozh i solntse, den’ chudesny, poem [by Alexandr Pushkin] ; rhymes [snatches], ‘Aunt Judy’ [elderly Russian refugee living in Dublin], singing in Russian, singing in French, speech in Russian
56. Master McGrath, song [fragment] / Katharine Simms (15), singing in English
57. The Kerry recruit (‘Mrs McGee the sergeant said...’) / Hilary Simms (11), singing in English
58. Early medieval music of church and court, radio programme [recorded off air from BBC 3rd programme, 6 January 1964], songs ; medieval instrumental music / Martindale Sidwell choir and various soloists, singing in Provençal, various instruments [including hurdy-gurdy, Gothic harp, crwth]
59. Chaka to King Kong: the modern evolution of Southern African music, radio programme [recorded off air from BBC third programme, 13 January 1964] / Percival R. Kirby, speech in English ; various performers singing in African dialects ; various musicians
60. The triple harp, radio programme [recorded off air from BBC 3rd programme presented by Joan Rimmer, 13 January 1964] , traditional Welsh and baroque music / Joan Rimmer, speech in English ; Nancy Richards Jones, Welsh triple harp [end of band three]
61. The songs of the Durham miners, radio programmes [recorded off air from BBC third programme, presented by A.L. LLoyd: part 1 ‘The older stratum’ 27 January 1964 ; part 2 ‘The newer seam’ 3 February 1964] / A.L. Lloyd, speech in English ; Jack Elliot, singing in English, John Elliot ; singing in English ; various performers, singing in English
62. Sixteenth century choral music by Thomas Tallis and William Byrd (including Byrd’s Cantiones Sacrae, 1575), radio programme [recorded off air from BBC 3rd programme] / Cantores in Ecelesia (conductor Michael Howard), singing in Latin [end of band four]