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The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads. (Abridgement)
By (Author) Bertrand Harris Bronson
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
19th May 2015
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Musical instruments
782.43
Paperback
578
Width 216mm, Height 279mm
1304g
Francis James Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads, published in ten parts from 1882 to 1898, contained the texts and variants of 305 extant themes written down between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries. Unsurpassed in its presentation of texts, this exhaustive collection devoted little attention to the ballad music, a want that was f