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Author Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa, 1852-1931.

Title Essays in the study of folk-songs. / By the Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco.

Publication Info. London : J. M. Dent; New York : E. P. Dutton, [1914]

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 Talbott: Circulating Collection  ML3580 .M366    Available  ---
Description 295 pages ; 17 cm.
Series Everyman's library
Everyman's library.
Bibliography Bibliography: page ix.
Contents Introduction.--The inspiration of death in folk-poetry.--Nature in folk-songs.--Armenian folk-songs.--Venetian folk-songs.--Sicilian folk-songs.--Greek songs of Calabria.--Folk-songs of Provence.--The white paternoster.--The diffusion of ballads.--Songs for the rite of May.--The idea of fate in southern traditions.--Folk-lullabies.--Folk-dirges.
Subject Folk songs -- History and criticism.
Folk songs.