MUSIC IN THE VICTORIAN PERIOD

1837-1901 FACTS

• The most popular form of music in the Victorian period was ‘Music Hall’. • This originated from traditional Folk Song. FOLK SONG

• Folk song is a song/ tune originating among the people of a country or area, passed by oral tradition from one singer or generation to the next, often existing in several versions. Listen to this Folk Song which was sung in by a singer called Joseph Taylor. He lived in in North . Brigg Fair was an annual event held in the of Brigg on 5 August since 1205. It was primarily an event at which horses were bought and sold. It stopped a few years ago.

• Brigg Fair ( joseph Taylor) • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdmgUM4LbS4

29 January 1862 – 10 June 1934), This is a version of Brigg Fair from the ‘English Rhapsody ‘by the English composer Frederick Delius who was from Bradford in West Yorkshire.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_JUKXwHZz4 EXERCISE

Write a short 4 line rap about

Make sure you can say the rap and keep the pulse. Record your rap.

E.G: Scunthorpe is the place to be Everyone here is good to me Nowhere else I’d want to be The greatest place in this country! MUSIC HALL

• Music Hall was a popular form of theatre entertainment from 1850 and included popular songs, comedy or variety acts. • By 1875 there were over 300 music Halls in alone. • Women were allowed to perform for the first time in public. The Show

Here is an example of a Music Hall show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWrsAPSbgD0 Daisy Daisy.

• This was a popular Music Hall song written by British Songwriter Harry Dacre in 1892. • Have a listen and try and sing along. • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uEjBkMsmJs QUIZ

• Which came first? Folk song or Music Hall? • What was the name of the folksinger who sang Brigg Fair? • Where was the composer Delius born? • What was the piece called that he used Brigg Fair in? • Where was Music Hall most popular?