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1 online resource (xx, 302 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-275) and indexes. |
Summary |
In 1832 the Scottish ballad collector Peter Buchan of Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, presented an anthology of risqué? and convivial songs and ballads to a Highland laird. When Professor Francis James Child of Harvard was preparing his magisterial edition of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, he made enquiries about it, but it was not made available in time to be considered for his work. On his death it was presented to the Child Memorial Library at Harvard. Because of its unseemly materials, the manuscript has languished there ever since, unprinted, though referred to now and again, and a. |
Contents |
Foreword: Peter Buchan and the Authenticity Controversy; Preface and Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PETER BUCHAN: INTRODUCTION; SECRET SONGS OF SILENCE: THE TEXT; Commentary; Appendices; First Line and Title Index; General Index |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
Scots, with preliminaries and commentary in English. |
Subject |
Buchan, Peter, 1790-1854.
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Buchan, Peter, 1790-1854. |
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Ballads, Scots -- Scotland -- Texts.
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Ballads, Scots. |
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Scotland. |
Genre/Form |
Texts.
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Subject |
Bawdy songs -- Scotland -- Texts.
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MUSIC -- Printed Music -- General. |
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Bawdy songs. |
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MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Folk & Traditional. |
Added Author |
Buchan, Peter, 1790-1854.
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Shoolbraid, Murray.
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Added Title |
Secret songs of silence |
Other Form: |
Print version: High-kilted muse. [Jackson] : University Press of Mississippi ; [Aberdeen] : In Association with the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, ©2010 (DLC) 2009031477 |
ISBN |
9781604734317 (electronic book) |
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1604734310 (electronic book) |
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9781604734171 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1604734175 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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