LOVE OF BEAUTY: Philokalía
LOVE OF BEAUTY: Philokalía
III. Enrichment: Folk Songs
Collection of folk songs by time period here (continually being added to and updated, feel free to comment on the document with edits)
By Cycle:
Folk Songs:
~500-1500
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Folk Songs:
~1500-1800
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Folk Songs: ~1800-1900
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Folk Songs: ~1900-Present
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4-Cycle Overview:
(select twelve songs per year):
Cycle 1: ~500-1500 Folk Song Options
Weeks 1-3:
Weeks 4-6:
Weeks 7-8:
Weeks 9-11:
More Options:
All Glory, Laud, and Honor
Good King Wenceslas
Be Thou My Vision
The First Nowell*
O Come, O Come Emmanuel
All Creatures of Our God and King
Weeks 12-14:
Weeks 15-16:
Weeks 17-18:
Weeks 19-20:
More Options:
Miri it is while summer ilast
Robin Hood and the Beggar Knight
Robin Hood and the Tanner
Coventry Carol*
Weeks 21-23:
Weeks 24-25:
Weeks 26-27:
Weeks 28-30:
More Options:
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing*
Lo, How a Rose e'er Blooming*
Nur Du (Thou Only)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen*
Sir Andrew Barton
Cycle 2: ~1500-1800 Folk Song Options
Weeks 1-3:
Weeks 4-6:
Weeks 7-8:
Weeks 9-11:
More Options:
A Mighty Fortress is Our God
Greensleeves*
Barbara Allen*
Lord Randall*
The Three Ravens
Angels We Have Heard on High*
Cherry Ripe*
English Country Garden*
Nice Field of Turnips*
Weeks 12-14:
Weeks 15-16:
Weeks 17-18:
Weeks 19-20:
More Options:
O Come, All Ye Faithful*
O Come, O Come Emmanuel*
Over the Hills and Far Away*
The Bold Grenadier*
The Cruel War*
The Golden Vanity*
The Outlandish Knight*
The Riddle Song*
The Water is Wide*
Will Ye Go Lassie Go*
Weeks 21-23:
Weeks 24-25:
Weeks 26-27:
Weeks 28-30:
More Options:
With My Swag All on My Shoulder*
Loch Lomond*
Down by the Salley Gardens*
The Fish of the Sea*
Skye Boat*
Go Tell Aunt Rhody
Yankee Doodle
Revolutionary Tea*
Auld Lang Syne
La Marseillaise
Ballad of New Scottish
Cycle 3: ~1800-1900 Folk Song Options
Weeks 1-3:
Weeks 4-6:
Weeks 7-8:
Weeks 9-11:
More Options:
Minstrel Boy*
It Came Upon a Midnight Clear*
My Country, 'Tis of Thee*
Old Dan Tucker
Arkansas Traveler*
Down by the Bay*
Health to the Company*
Little Brown Dog*
Aiken Drum*
An Acre of Land*
Billy Barlow*
Cockles and Mussels / Molly Malone*
Come Lads and Lasses*
Did You Go To the Barney*
Go Get the Ax*
Haul on the Bowline*
How Many Miles to London Town / Babylon*
I'll Tell Me Ma Irish*
Weeks 12-14:
Weeks 15-16:
Weeks 17-18:
Weeks 19-20:
More Options:
On Ilkla Moor Baht 'at
Pick a Bale of Cotton*
The Happy Wanderer*
We Three Kings of Orient Are*
Yellow Rose of Texas*
Angels We Have Heard on High*
He Is Born, The Heav'nly Child / Il est né, le divin enfant*
Leatherwing Bat*
O Shenandoah*
Rhyme of the Chivalrous Shark*
The Ash Grove*
The Foolish Boy*
The Green Grass Grew All Around*
The Holly and the Ivy*
The Jam on Gerry's Rocks*
Weeks 21-23:
Weeks 24-25:
Weeks 26-27:
Weeks 28-30:
More Options:
Tenting Tonight on the Old Campground*
I've Been Working on the Railroad
Home on the Range*
My Grandfather's Clock*
Funiculi, Funicula (A Merry Life)*
The Mermaid*
The Rising of the Moon*
The Saucy Sailor*
The Wellerman*
The Wexford Carol*
There is a Time for Us to Wander*
There's a Hole in the Bottom of the Sea*
Walk That Lonesome Valley*
While Shepherds Watched Their Flock*
Cycle 4: ~1900-Present Folk Song Options
Cycle 4 Spotify Playlist
Weeks 1-3: Waltzing Matilda
Weeks 4-6: You’re a Grand Old Flag
Weeks 7-8: Over There
Weeks 9-11: Danny Boy
More Options:
God Bless America*
Ballad of New Scottish*
Brown Girl in the Ring*
Day-O, The Banana Boat Song*
Farewell to Nova Scotia*
I Know Moonlight, I Know Starlight*
I'm Seventeen Come Sunday*
Land of the Silver Birch*
Weeks 12-14: Brother, Can you Spare a Dime?
Weeks 15-16: This Land is Your Land
Weeks 17-18: March of the Defenders of Moscow
Weeks 19-20: Bella Ciao
More Options:
Weeks 21-23: We Shall Overcome
Weeks 24-25: Wild Mountain Thyme
Weeks 26-27: We Shall Not Be Moved
Weeks 28-30: America the Beautiful
More Options:
Let Us Sing Together*
Shake Sugaree*
The Alberta Homesteader*
The Fox (went out on a chilly night)*
The Keeper*
Wayfaring Stranger*
When the Iceworm Nests Again*
Young Man from Canadian*