Ancient ballads traditionally sung in New England : from the Helen Hartness Flanders ballad collection, Middlebury College. Middlebury, Vt. / Correlated with the numbered Francis James Child collection. Critical analyses by Tristram P. Coffin. Music annotations by Bruno Nettl.
| Author/creator | Flanders, Helen Hartness |
| Format | Musical Score |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1960-65] |
| Description | 4 volumes ; 22 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | v. 1, ballads 1-51.; Riddles wisely expounded ;; The elfin knight ;; The false knight upon the road ;; Lady Isabel and the elf-knight ;; Willie's lady ;; Earl Brand ;; The bold soldier ;; The twa sisters ;; The cruel brother ;; Lord Randal ;; Edward ;; Babylon ;; Hind horn ;; Sir Lionel ;; The cruel mother ;; Saint Stephen and Herod ;; Willie's lyke-wake ;; The twa corbies ;; The boy and the mantle ;; The half-hitch ;; The Broomfield Hill ;; King John and the bishop ;; Captain Wedderburn's courtship ;; The twa brothers ;; Lizie Wan --; v. 2, ballads 53-93.; Young Beichan ;; The cherry tree carol ;; Dives and Lazarus ;; Child Waters ;; Jack, the jolly tar ;; Young hunting ;; Lord Thomas and Fair Annet ;; Fair Margaret and Sweet William ;; Lord Lovel ;; The lass of Roch Royal ;; Sweet William's ghost ;; The unquiet grave ;; The wife of Usher's Well ;; Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard ;; Child Maurice ;; Barbara Allen ;; Young Johnstone ;; Lamkin --; v. 3, ballads 95-243. The maid freed from the gallows ;; The gay goshawk ;; Johnny Scot ;; Willie O Winsbury ;; The bailiff's daughter of Islington ;; The famous flower of servingmen ;; The baffled knight ;; The bold pedlar and Robin Hood ;; Robin Hood rescuing three squires ;; Robin Hood and the bishop ;; Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's daughter ;; Queen Eleanor's confession ;; Gude Wallace ;; The hunting of the cheviot, or, Chevy Chase ;; King Henry the Fifth's conquest of France ;; The rose of England ;; Johnie Armstrong ;; The Duke of Bedford ;; Mary Hamilton ;; Northumberland betrayal by Douglas ;; Captain Car, or, Edom O Gordon ;; The bonnie Earl of Murray ;; The bonnie House of Airlie ;; The gypsy laddie ;; Geordie ;; Bonnie James Campbell ;; Sir James the Ross ;; The braes of Yarrow ;; The squire of Edinboroughtown ;; Lizie Lindsay ;; Huntingtower ;; Johnny Doyle ;; James Harris, or, The daemon lover --; v. 4, ballads 250-295.; Sir Andrew Barton ;; Henry Martyn ;; John Thomson and the Turk ;; The Suffolk miracle ;; Our goodman ;; Get up and bar the door ;; The wife wrapped in wether's skin ;; The farmer's curst wife ;; The keach i' the creel ;; The Yorkshire bite ;; The Coast of Barbary ;; The sweet trinity, or, The golden vanity ;; Captain Ward and the Rainbow ;; The mermaid ;; John of Hazelgreen ;; The Irish lady, or, Sally from London. |
| General note | Melodies. |
| LCCN | m 59001030 |
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