This project was completed and published by Dyllansow Truran in 1983, edited by Merv Davey. The primary purpose was to provide songs in the Cornish Language but included songs in English, dances tunes and ballads.
It contains: 21 songs from oral tradition; 9 songs that have been arranged or reconstructed by the editor; 15 dance tunes; and a selection of historical ballads and broadsides.
A hard copy is available at Kresen Kernow ref CMA/1/2/6/4 Hengan
Link to Downloadable pdf file: Hengan
Contents:
A’n Ganowow Tus / From The Mouths Of The People
Title | Page Number |
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The Wrestling Match | 15 |
Lamorna | 16 |
An Gwythyas / The Keeper | 17 |
Tally Ho Hark Away | 18 |
Terryans Syllan / Scilly Wreck | 19 |
Deulagas Vyghan / Little Eyes / Little Lise | 21 |
Ow Den Coth Da / My Good Old Man | 23 |
An Awhesyth / The Lark | 25 |
Adam Hag Eva / Adam And Eve | 26 |
The Keenly Lode | 27 |
Mowes a Vry / My Pretty Maid, | 28 |
Wembalo | 29 |
The Drowned Lover | 30 |
Wassel Redruth | 31 |
When Eyndek /Indian Weed | 32 |
Bodmin Town / Tre Bosvenna | 33 |
Ormond | 34 |
Ha My Ow Mos – a Three Men’s Song | 35 |
Helygen /The Willow Tree | 35 |
An Ula / The Owl | 36 |
White Rose, The / Rosen Wynn, An | 37 |
Daswryans / Reconstructions
Naw Map Harth – Nine Brave Boys | 41 |
De Hala Me / May Feast | 42 |
Hungan / Lullaby | 43 |
Whelyow an Garoryon / Lover’s Tasks | 44 |
When ha Blejennow / Flowers &Weeds | 45 |
Tansys Golowan / Midsummer Feast | 46 |
Estren / Stranger | 47 |
Damon | 47 |
Jowan Bunt | 48 |
Ylow Dons / Dance Music
Plethen Newlyn | 53 |
Plethen Peswar Luf /4hand reel | 53 |
Porthlystry / Lattapouch | 54 |
Jyg : Try Scoler | 54 |
Bishop’s Jig | 54 |
Polka: Arlodhes Eversham | 55 |
Polka: Mary Kelynak | 55 |
Polka: Myghtern Sweden | 55 |
Pybcorn: Boscastle Breakdown | 56 |
Pybcorn: Can Scoswas | 56 |
Mowes Yseldyryow | 57 |
Tavol Turkey | 57 |
An Culyek Hos | 58 |
Fer Lyskerys | 58 |
Pencarrow | 58 |
Folennow Ledan / Broadside Ballads
Can an Plu / Song of the Parish | 61 |
A Mynsa Tus Kernewek Goslowes /If Cornish Folk would Listen | 63 |
Lapyor Tom‘s Song | 65 |
Twenty lives lost by awful shipwrecks | 66 |
The Schiller | 67 |
An account of the melancholy shipwreck | 68 |
A true tale of merciful deliverance | 69 |
Wheal Do’em in Breage | 70 |
A desperate attempt to raise the dead | 71 |
A desperate attempt to rob the poor | 72 |
Eight young women lost their lives | 73 |
French Polish drinking at Goonhavron | 74 |
Murder of a Cornishman in London | 75 |
Cornish Kitchen | 76 |