| Description |
4 volumes ; 22 cm |
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score |
| Note |
Melodies. |
| Contents |
v. 1, ballads 1-51. Riddles wisely expounded ; Elfin knight ; False knight upon the road ; Lady Isabel and the elf-knight ; Willie's lady ; Earl Brand ; Bold soldier ; Twa sisters ; Cruel brother ; Lord Randal ; Edward ; Babylon ; Hind horn ; Sir Lionel ; Cruel mother ; Saint Stephen and Herod ; Willie's lyke-wake ; Twa corbies ; Boy and the mantle ; Half-hitch ; Broomfield Hill ; King John and the bishop ; Captain Wedderburn's courtship ; Twa brothers ; Lizie Wan -- v. 2, ballads 53-93. Young Beichan ; Cherry tree carol ; Dives and Lazarus ; Child Waters ; Jack, the jolly tar ; Young hunting ; Lord Thomas and Fair Annet ; Fair Margaret and Sweet William ; Lord Lovel ; Lass of Roch Royal ; Sweet William's ghost ; Unquiet grave ; Wife of Usher's Well ; Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard ; Child Maurice ; Barbara Allen ; Young Johnstone ; Lamkin -- v. 3, ballads 95-243. The maid freed from the gallows ; Gay goshawk ; Johnny Scot ; Willie O Winsbury ; Bailiff's daughter of Islington ; Famous flower of servingmen ; Baffled knight ; Bold pedlar and Robin Hood ; Robin Hood rescuing three squires ; Robin Hood and the bishop ; Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's daughter ; Queen Eleanor's confession ; Gude Wallace ; Hunting of the cheviot, or, Chevy Chase ; King Henry the Fifth's conquest of France ; Rose of England ; Johnie Armstrong ; Duke of Bedford ; Mary Hamilton ; Northumberland betrayal by Douglas ; Captain Car, or, Edom O Gordon ; Bonnie Earl of Murray ; Bonnie House of Airlie ; Gypsy laddie ; Geordie ; Bonnie James Campbell ; Sir James the Ross ; Braes of Yarrow ; Squire of Edinboroughtown ; Lizie Lindsay ; Huntingtower ; Johnny Doyle ; James Harris, or, The daemon lover -- v. 4, ballads 250-295. Sir Andrew Barton ; Henry Martyn ; John Thomson and the Turk ; Suffolk miracle ; Our goodman ; Get up and bar the door ; Wife wrapped in wether's skin ; Farmer's curst wife ; Keach i' the creel ; Yorkshire bite ; Coast of Barbary ; Sweet trinity, or, The golden vanity ; Captain Ward and the Rainbow ; Mermaid ; John of Hazelgreen ; Irish lady, or, Sally from London. |
| Language |
English words; all verses also printed as text following each melody. |
| Subject |
Ballads, English -- New England.
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Ballads, English. |
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New England. |
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Folk songs, English -- New England.
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Folk songs, English. |
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Folk music -- New England.
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Folk music. |
| Genre/Form |
Notated music.
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Notated music.
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| Added Author |
Flanders, Helen Hartness, 1890-1972.
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Coffin, Tristram Potter, 1922-2012.
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Nettl, Bruno, 1930-2020.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Ancient ballads traditionally sung in New England. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press c1960-©1965 (OCoLC)551355932 |
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Online version: Ancient ballads traditionally sung in New England. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press c1960-©1965 (OCoLC)590346512 |
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Online version: Ancient ballads traditionally sung in New England. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press c1960-©1965 (OCoLC)604261104 |
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