FROM THE PETER PARKHILL COLLECTION
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Peter Parkhill is a musicologist who was one of Australia's first field-workers to record extensively in non-English-speaking communities.
Selected excerpt from this collection
Some of the traditional Turkish songs recorded by Peter Parkhill, such as 'The Red Handkerchief', are also included in the Australian Children's Folklore Collection noted above. Love songs in many languages, such as the English 'Lavender Blue', are frequently sung by adults to children. The following translation of 'Mendil' ('The Red Handkerchief') is from the Australian Children's Folklore Collection:
Go to the mountains and get some snow;
The wood smells wet, bring it in a golden bowl.
Break a golden nut in the golden bowl
And bring me the red handkerchief.
I should have not broken the nut,
I should not have broken my lover's heart.
Children's folklore items found in this collection
TRC 2525/68. View record
Anatolian minstrels and a children's choir sing Turkish traditional songs. Recorded (in Melbourne?) in 1978 following a broadcast for ABC Television.
TRC 2525/24, 28, 29. View record
Beseda Czechoslovakian musicians. Recorded in Melbourne in 1974.
TRC 2525/67. View record
Cambodian musicians playing for child dancers. Recorded in Sydney in January 1988.
TRC 2525/86. View record
Lebanese folk tale told in Arabic and English by Mr Antoine Hambalian. Recorded in North Carlton, Melbourne, in 1975.
TRC 2525/31. View record
Joao Justino, East Timorese adult and children. Recorded in Fairfield, New South Wales, in 1987.
TRC 2525/20. View record
George and Kostas Tsourdalakis. Traditional dances and songs of Crete, recorded at a rehearsal for a young people's dance ensemble. Recorded at Yarraville, Melbourne, in June 1975.
TRC 2525/82. View record
Macedonian dancers and music, St George's Orthodox Church, Melbourne, 1970.
TRC 2525/60. View record
Concert at Princes Hill High School, Greek Macedonian students.
