Home, Family, and Nation – Inventory of the Manuscript Collections of Lucy Broadwood’s and Alice Gomme’s Pioneering Folksong Research in Great Britain

Authors

Sarah Perry, Brigham Young University
Jerry Jaccard, Brigham Young University

Keywords

manuscript collections, Lucy Broadwood, Alice Gomme, folksong, Great Britain

College

Fine Arts and Communications

Department

Music

Abstract

Lucy Broadwood was a researcher with a specific interest in English folk song, including children’s singing games. She was at the forefront of the English folk song, folk dance, and folk art revival that set the stage for widespread reform in school music, serious musical composition, and music publishing in the British Isles. She was a charter investigator and member of the English Folk Song Society, an organization chartered in 1899 that is still supported by the Crown under the modern title of the English Folk Dance and Song Society. From such seemingly simple circumstances, this woman exercised great influence on such well-known British composers as Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Percy Grainger, among others.

Recommended Citation

Perry, Sarah and Jaccard, Jerry (2013) "Home, Family, and Nation – Inventory of the Manuscript Collections of Lucy Broadwood’s and Alice Gomme’s Pioneering Folksong Research in Great Britain," Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2013: Iss. 1, Article 2281.
Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2013/iss1/2281