(Online library) The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol 1 The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol 1 n8wDVwc0h The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol 1 SsvC23BOY JB-94841 oNOJiw1Kx US/Data/Literature-Fiction RikWgV4bZ 4/5 From 380 Reviews TucVlMW5A Francis James Child LtjZMbxxY DOC | *audiobook | ebooks | Download PDF | ePub TucVlMW5A j51rurhwh oS25p5n4i VMw5zHxzB CxflSTCQY EU4pO0673 5n4SWKc2S BLQtDiSDj 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Excellent "corrected" KWJG5tsuI editionBy J. R. BrownChild's "English and Scottish Popular Ballads" is THE M3bkUU5Yw sourcebook for anyone interested in the traditional ballads of the British Isles, iGmA1vIMo and also invaluable to all aficionados of European folklore and folksong in gfPsfjA3w general. For those not up on their terminology, a ballad is a folksong with a kF5zpAkfS plot, and Child's collection covers everything from foul murders to star-crossed vIZARObwI lovers to Robin Hood, in five volumes.I am extremely happy that someone has ObBtBRj1v finally issued an edition incorporating the various addenda and corrections that uL7kEYlKV Child made before his death. There is nothing here that Child did not write, so ZtO3hRPBj if you are looking for additional scholarship or commentary you will be sK2ucgFK4 disappointed; but the Loomis House edition vastly improves over the Dover tM2LJk6P5 facsimiles in completeness and convenience. Additional variants, comments and bgoCI04Of even some tunes (the one big omission in the original) are placed conveniently 8Jms2TZ2e near the main text of each category rather than buried in appendices (most of XQVnqmLPF which aren't included in the Dover editions at all). It's well worth the few extra dollars over the Dover books.My one quibble is that they do not reproduce some of the typographical distinctions that Child occasionally used to indicate different features of a text, but this is overshadowed by all the good points of this edition.Overall this is a wonderful and affordable edition; I fervently hope that all five volumes are issued as planned (it's been almost a year since Volume 3 came out...). I have no idea why makes these books so hard to find on their site: fix this, guys!In summary: Buy this book. Now if someone would only reprint Bertrand Bronson's "The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads" as well....0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. One to get if you like ballads!By TheoHas a lot of good ballads in here (54 through 113), like Sweet William's Ghost and the Selkie of Sule Skerry. I like the way the book is formatted, with info about the song's origins and the descriptions of variations from different countries are really interesting.That said I did get the paperback, so no sheet music. But that's something you can usually find around the internet.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Beautifully faithful to the originalBy Bard of the BrandywineMany years ago (pre- Books!) when I recorded, "Bard of the Brandywine" it was impossible to find Vol. II of the F.J. Child's collection of the English Scottish ballads as it contained the studies on the most popular, Matty Groves and Barbara Allen.So I was ecstatic to find Vol.II published independently of the orignal five-volume collection and to complete my Dover publication set of this seminal study.THANK YOU!Sally Jane Denk-HoeyBard of the Brandywine First published 1883-1898, Professor Child's monumental work on the ballad tradition of England and Scotland stands as a foundation document for all subsequent ballad scholarship and for trends such as the twentieth century folk revival. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads presents 305 distinct ballads, -- Volume I contains 1-53 -- most with multiple variants, with commentary that traces the origins of the ballad stories through the literature and traditions of much of the western world. P ....