child ballads
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where can i find the/some child ballads w/ lyrics?
Bill Coleman
Unless they've gone out of print they've been available in any good
bookstore for years in several volumes.
Wayne Seymour
Unfortunately they are out of print, at least the whole set is. You may
be able to order the abridged one-volume set by Helen Child Sergeant and
George Lyman Kittredge. Be careful!! Some editions do NOT include tunes.
Wayne Seymour
Don't forget you public, school, or community college library. Coolleges
and univerities would surely have it, but are sometimes hesitant about
checking things out to non-students!
Peter Kantor
Bill Coleman <bill...@atl.mindspring.com> writes:
>Unless they've gone out of print they've been available in any good
>bookstore for years in several volumes.
library. (Our public library had them here, but they were stolen ages ago).
Sarah
Andy's Front Hall
Abby Sale
On 1 Sep 1996 20:25:25 GMT, Wayne Seymour <more...@vnet.net> wrote:
>>where can i find the/some child ballads w/ lyrics?
>Unfortunately they are out of print, at least the whole set is. You may
>be able to order the abridged one-volume set by Helen Child Sergeant and
>George Lyman Kittredge. Be careful!! Some editions do NOT include tunes.
>
To the best of my knowledge, there never were tunes in any edition. You're
probably thinking of Bronson-Child. I contacted Houghton-Mifflin a while
back & they have absolutely no intention of re-doing this superb digest of
the great work. Perhaps Andy's Front Hall & Camsco might get together on
this & consider a facsimile issue???????????
On the other hand, nearly any book on English language ballads (NOT songs,
BALLADS) will include a number of Child ballads & will reference them. I
believe the excellent Oxford Book of Ballads is still available.
Here's the list on (out-of-print) stuff to ask your library for:
Probably the most commonly used and most useful & approachable edition
was Prof. Kittredge's abreviation of 1904. It is very intelligently
selected, with at least 2 & up to 7 or so representative samples of each
ballad. It has all (I think) of Child's notes on each song and a good
glossary (including Scottish stuff.) It's a single volume of 730 thin
pages.
Inexplicably, it leaves out five ballads. Not because they're unusually
sexy...don't see any reason.
AUTHOR: Child, Francis James, 1825-1896, ed.
TITLE: English and Scottish popular ballads, edited from the collection
of Francis James Child by Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittredge
PUB. INFO: Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin [1904 & 1932]
DESCRIPTION: 3 p. 1., [v]-xxxi, 729 p. front. (port.) 22 cm.
SERIES: The Cambridge edition of the poets
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Other listed publications:
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AUTHOR: Child, Francis James, 1825-1896, ed.
TITLE: The English and Scottish popular ballads, ed. by Francis James
Child. In five volumes ...
PUB. INFO: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company [c1886-98]
DESCRIPTION: 5 v. front. (port.) 29 cm.
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AUTHOR: Child, Francis James, 1825-1896, ed.
TITLE: The English and Scottish popular ballads.
PUB. INFO: New York, Folklore Press, 1956.
DESCRIPTION: 5 v. in 3. port. 26 cm.
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AUTHOR: Child, Francis James, 1825-1896, ed.
TITLE: The English and Scottish popular ballads.
PUB. INFO: New York, Dover Publications [1965]
DESCRIPTION: 5 v. port. 24 cm.
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Bronson's _Traditional tunes of...._ is also "available" in the full set
or a shorter version. The full set, unless you are fantastically lucky,
would cost an arm, a leg and at least one unmentionable. I've not
personally seen the shorter version, but we are informed that it is very
good and reasonably priced.
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AUTHOR: Bronson, Bertrand Harris, 1902- ed.
TITLE: The traditional tunes of the Child ballads; with their texts,
according to the extant records of Great Britain and America.
PUB. INFO: Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1959-72.
DESCRIPTION: 4 v. music. 29 cm.
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AUTHOR: Bronson, Bertrand Harris, 1902- ed.
TITLE: The singing tradition of Child's popular ballads / edited by
Bertrand Harris Bronson.
PUB. INFO: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1976.
DESCRIPTION: xlvi, 526 p. : music ; 29 cm.
California Princeton Fulfillment Services
to be exact (the jobber for U of Cal Press?). Anyway, the number to call
is (609) 883-1759 and the cost is $50.00
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The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads is available
from Books on Demand, a division of University Microfilms
International, 300 N. Zeeb Rd, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1346,
313-761-4700, 800-521-0600. The Library of Congress number
is LC 75-2980, the ISBM is 0-7837-4324-6, and the scariest
number of all is the price: $155.60 for a 576 page paperback.
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George Hawes
abby...@sundial.net (Abby Sale) wrote:
>On 1 Sep 1996 20:25:25 GMT, Wayne Seymour <more...@vnet.net> wrote:
>>>where can i find the/some child ballads w/ lyrics?
>>Unfortunately they are out of print, at least the whole set is. You may
>>be able to order the abridged one-volume set by Helen Child Sergeant and
>>George Lyman Kittredge. Be careful!! Some editions do NOT include tunes.
>>
>To the best of my knowledge, there never were tunes in any edition.
Not quite. The Dover (or was it Oak . . .theat the trouble with
having the net connection at work and the library at home)
multi-volume good quality paperback volume had an appendix of a
very limited number of tunes - I think selected on the basis of
their being rare or obscure or something. Certainly not a great
deal of use . . .
Regards
George