The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads. (Abridgement) / / ed. by Bertrand Harris Bronson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
• HerausgeberIn: Bronson, Bertrand Harris,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]; ©1977
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 1256
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (578 p.)

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 filled by Bertrand Harris Bronson in his four volume Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. The present book is an abridged, one-volume edition of that work, setting forth music and text for proven examples of oral tradition, with a new comprehensive introduction. Its convenient format makes readily available to students and scholars the materials for a study of the Child ballads as they have been preserved in the British-American singing tradition.Originally published in 1977.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. Riddles Wisely Expounded -- 2. The Elfin Knight -- 3. The Fause Knight upon the Road -- 4. Lady Isabel and the Elf Knight -- 5. Gil Brenton -- 7. Earl Brand -- 9. The Fair Flower of Northumberland -- 10. The Two Sisters -- 11. The Cruel Brother -- 12. Lord Randal -- 12. Appendix Billie Boy -- 13. Edward -- 14. Babylon -- 16. Sheath and Knife -- 17. Hind Horn -- 18. Sir Lionel -- 19. King Orfeo -- 20. The Cruel Mother -- 21. The Maid and the Palmer -- 24.Bonnie Annie -- 25. Willie's Lyke-Wake -- 26. The Three Ravens -- 32. King Henry -- 34. Kempion -- 37. Thomas Rymer -- 39. Tam Lin -- 40. The Queen of Elfan's Nourice -- 41. Hind Etin -- 42. Clerk Colvill -- 43. The Broomiield Hill -- 44. The Twa Magicians -- 45. King John and the Bishop -- 46. Captain Wedderburn's Courtship -- 46. Appendix Riddle Song -- 47. Proud Lady Margaret -- 49. The Two Brothers -- 51. Lizie Wan -- 52. The King's Dochter Lady Jean -- 53. Young Beichan -- 54. The Cherry-Tree Carol -- 55. The Carnal and the Crane -- 56. Dives and Lazarus -- 58. Sir Patrick Spens -- 61. Sir Cawline -- 62. Fair Annie -- 63. Child Waters -- 64. Fair Janet -- 65. Lady Maisry -- 68. Young Hunting -- 69. Clerk Saunders -- 73. Lord Thomas and Fair Eleanor -- 74. Fair Margaret and Sweet William -- 75. Lord Lovel -- 76. The Lass of Roch Royal -- 77. Sweet William's Ghost -- 78. The Unquiet Grave -- 79. The Wife of Usher's Well -- 81. Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard -- 83. Child Maurice -- 84. Bonny Barbara Allan -- 85. George Collins (Lady Alice) -- 86. Young Benjie -- 88. Young Johnstone -- 92. Appendix The Lowlands of Holland -- 93. Lamkin -- 95. The Maid Freed from the Gallows -- 99. Johnie Scot -- 100. Willie ο Winsbury -- 105. The Bailiff's Daughter of Islington -- 106. The Famous Flower of Serving-Men -- 110. The Knight and the Shepherd's Daughter -- 112. The Baffled Knight -- 113. The Great Silkie of Sule Skerry -- 114. Johnie Cock -- 120. Robin Hood's Death -- 125. Robin Hood and Little John -- 126. Robin Hood and the Tanner -- 132. The Bold Pedlar and Robin Hood -- 139. Robin Hood's Progress to Nottingham -- 140. Robin Hood Rescuing Three Squires -- 141. Robin Hood Rescuing Will Study -- 144. Robin Hood and the Bishop of Hereford -- 155. Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's Daughter -- 156. Queen Eleanor's Confession -- 157. Gude Wallace -- 161. The Battle of Otterburn -- 162. The Hunting of the Cheviot -- 163. The Battle of Harlaw -- 164. King Henry Fifth's Conquest of France -- 167. Sir Andrew Barton -- 169. Johnie Armstrong -- 170. The Death of Queen Jane -- 173. Mary Hamilton -- 178. Captain Car, or, Edom ο Gordon -- 181. The Bonny Earl of Murray -- 182. The Laird ο Logie -- 185. Dick ο the Cow -- 187. Jock ο the Side -- 188. Archie ο Cawfield -- 191. Hughie Grame -- 192. The Lochmaben Harper -- 193. The Death of Parcy Reed -- 196. The Fire of Frendraught -- 199. The Bonnie House ο Airlie -- 200. The Gypsy Laddie -- 201. Bessy Bell and Mary Gray -- 203. The Baron of Brackley -- 204. Jamie Douglas -- 206. Bothwell Bridge -- 208. Lord Derwentwater -- 209. Geordie -- 210. Bonnie James Campbell -- 211. Bewick and Graham -- 212. The Duke of Athole's Nurse -- 213. Sir James the Rose -- 214. The Braes ο Yarrow -- 215. Rare Willie Drowned in Yarrow, or, The Water ο Gamrie -- 216. The Mother's Malison, or, Clyde's Water -- 217. The Broom of Cowdenknows -- 218. The False Lover Won Back -- 219. The Gardener -- 221. Katharine Jaffray -- 222. Bonny Baby Livingston -- 223. Eppie Morrie -- 226. Lizie Lindsay -- 227. Bonny Lizie Baillie -- 228. Glasgow Peggie -- 229. Earl Crawford -- 231. The Earl of Errol -- 232. Richie Story -- 233. Andrew Lammie -- 235. The Earl of Aboyne -- 236. The Laird ο Drum -- 237. The Duke of Gordon's Daughter -- 238. Glenlogie, or, Jean ο Bethelnie -- 240. The Rantin Laddie -- 241. The Baron ο Leys -- 243. The Dæmon Lover (The House Carpenter) -- 245. Young Allan -- 248. The Grey Cock, or, Saw You My Father? -- 250. Henry Martyn -- 251. Lang Johnny More -- 252. The Kitchie-Boy -- 267. The Heir of Linne -- 269. Lady Diamond -- 272. The Suffolk Miracle -- 273. King Edward the Fourth and a Tanner of Tamworth -- 274. Our Goodman -- 275. Get Up and Bar the Door -- 276. The Friar in the Well -- 277. The Wife Wrapt in Wether's Skin -- 278. The Farmer's Curst Wife -- 279. The Jolly Beggar -- 279. Appendix The Gaberlunyie-Man -- 280. The Beggar-Laddie -- 281. The Keach in the Creel -- 282. Jock the Leg and the Merry Merchant -- 283. The Crafty Farmer -- 284. John Dory -- 285. The George Aloe and the Sweepstake -- 286. The Sweet Trinity (The Golden Vanity) -- 287. Captain Ward and the Rainbow -- 288. The Young Earl of Essex's Victory over the Emperor of Germany -- 289. The Mermaid -- 293. John of Hazelgreen -- 295. The Brown Girl -- 299. Trooper and Maid -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL LISTS -- INDEX OF TUNES AND BALLADS QUOTED