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	Romancing the Folk
		Child's other passion, however, was British ballads, a subject he pursued with the persistence of a bloodhound and the precision of a detective.
		Child's motto was "Do it so it shall never have to be done again," and to a great extent he achieved this goal in the course of his forty years of ballad scholarship.
		Child's tomes, chock-full of footnotes and cross-references and, in many cases, with lyrics written in Old English dialect, were meant to occupy a place of honor in a scholar's library.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/f/filene-folk.html (4180 words)

	§6. Other Imported Songs. XXVII. Oral Literature. Vol. 18. Later National Literature, Part III. The Cambridge ...
		When ballads are reduced to print, they are not “killed” but have a better chance to survive; and the same is true when they have been transcribed in manuscript books.
		Most of the ballads included in the Child collection were preserved in broadsides or printed sources, or in manuscripts, and the same agencies have helped to perpetuate these songs when they reach the New World.
		Beside the imported romantic and legendary ballads, many songs and song-tales on the themes of broadside balladry of the last two centuries in England have currency in the United States, often in such disguised or modified form that their origin is no longer recognizable.
	www.bartleby.com /228/0406 (1541 words)

	Past Recipients of the Williams Fellowship and their Proposals
		His collection of written music became known as the “Child ballads.” In the 1950’s, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax made seminal sound field-recordings of these ballads that had survived generations of oral transmission, providing a recorded archive for the Child ballads as a living tradition.
		Child Ballads that abound with the supernatural have a common origin in the eighteenth century, whereas earlier balladic references to the supernatural were limited to Satan or to elves.
		By focusing on the performance of ballads that reference the supernatural, I hope to gain insight into the oral and literary elements that influenced this fascination of the eighteenth century.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/english/ug_rbwpastrecip.htm (1985 words)

	www.jonathandewbre.com
		Child collected books of ballads and folklore throughout his tenure at Harvard, and amassed one of the greatest collections of such for its time.
		To this day, ballads or folksongs from his collection are often referred to as "Child" and the number with which they were cataloged, for easy reference.
		The ballad ends with the foresters being buried by the townsfolk and, presumably, Robin's escape to Sherwood to be an outlaw.
	www.jonathandewbre.com /RobinHood/Robin.htm (4012 words)

	REEXAMINING THE PROVERB IN THE CHILD BALLAD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The balladeer must consider that the wording of the traditional proverb is relatively stable and that the ballad has certain formal characteristics which limit variations.
		It marks the emotional climax of the ballad in which the trusting Percy is totally at the mercy of the traitor Douglas and what follows in the narrative--namely the eventual, execution of Percy--is a tragic resolution of Douglas's plot of betrayal.
		How balladeers incorporated proverbs into their texts, made allusions to proverbs, and imitated proverbial patterns is the beginning of the serious study of proverbs in the ballad.
	www.deproverbio.com /DPjournal/DP,5,2,99/SWETERLITSCH/BALLAD.html (2850 words)

	A Concordance to the Child Ballads
		Francis James Child (Harvard's first professor of English) was a specialist in early English language and literature and wrote and lectured on, for example, the works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, and William Shakespeare.
		Child is best known, though, for his five-volume edition of 305 distinct English and Scottish ballads and their textual variants which he published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898).
		Ballad texts for this edition were culled from manuscript and printed materials extant at the end of the 19th Century.
	www.colorado.edu /ArtsSciences/CCRH/Ballads/ballads.html (818 words)

	Child Ballads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		However, if you're looking for pre-1600 ballads, only a few of Child's ballads survive in manuscripts which pre-date 1600, and few of them have music, although other ballads with later words use music which can be dated before 1600.
		and she didn't provide a footnote) of Child ballads for which pre-1600 manuscripts are known.
		If you search in William Olson's listing of 17th century ballads for the word "Child", you can find a large number of references to more recent Child ballads.
	www.pbm.com /~lindahl/ballads/child.html (408 words)

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		Child had extensive correspondence with the Tytler family; and, in fact, he was on the right track as it was eventually found at Aldourie Castle, one of their seats.
		Child’s response was unexpected: he wanted an annotated bill, criticized the elegance and extravagance of the volumes and said Macmath should have used his shippers.
		In Child’s instance, the search for manuscript copies that lay behind the printed texts was the first principle of his work: he assumed that the process of bringing materials to print often involved either conscious or unconscious changes and that the manuscript versions lay closer to the oral originals.
	www.indiana.edu /~folklore/copyrightversion.doc (7631 words)

	History in Review - The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Francis James Child's five volume concordances of English and Scottish folk ballads is the most scholarly and comprehensive discourse on the subject of popular ballads ever written.
		Child was born in Boston in 1825 and he attended Harvard University, where he later became a respected professor.
		Child's work has become so ingrained in the academic and music communities that the 305 ballads examined in this series are as commonly referred to as Child #XX, as to its proper name.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /child_ballads.html (887 words)

	Early Child Ballads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Our understanding of the ballad has changed somewhat since Kittredge's day (particularly with regards to his identification of the ballad as a literary form first, and only secondarily as song), but his definition is close enough to the modern one to serve as a jumping-off point for a lengthier attempt at characterizing the ballad form.
		Child's judgment has stood the test of time superbly: There may be a handful of ballads in his collection which, in retrospect, perhaps shouldn't have been included.
		Ballads tend to be characterized by impersonality on the part of the singer: The narrator is not personally touched by story, is not taking sides, and typically sings without much dramatization.
	www.pbm.com /~lindahl/ballads/early_child (8688 words)

	Child Ballads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Child Ballads are a collection of 305 ballads from England and Scotland, and their American variants, collected by Francis James Child in the late 19th century.
		The ballads vary in age; for instance, a version of "A Geste of Robyn Hode" was printed in the late 15th or early 16th century, and the manuscript of "Judas" dates to the 13th century.
		The majority of the ballads, however, date to the 17th and 18th century; although some probably have very ancient influences, only a handful can be definitively traced to before 1600.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Child_Ballads (601 words)

	Amazon.ca: The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Vol. 5: Books: Francis James Child (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Published between 1882 and 1898, Professor Child's study of popular ballads in the English language was the first comprehensive survey of all extant ballads and their known variants.
		Francis James Child (1825-1896) was educated at Harvard, Berlin, and Göttingen, and taught at Harvard for fifty years, in Rhetoric, English, and Modern Languages.
		Many of the ballads still sung today in Eastern Canada and the US were derived from these ballads, so these books are a facinating study of the earlier origins of these and many other ballads from the british iles.
	www.amazon.ca /English-Scottish-Popular-Ballads-Vol/dp/0486431495 (440 words)

	The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, 5 Volume Set
		The few published ballad editions that existed were unreliable, filled with unacknowledged editorial changes and distortions of the original manuscripts.
		Professor Child compiled all the extant ballads with all known variants, and made them available for the first time--together with his invaluable commentary that prefaces each work--in a single source that maintained absolute fidelity to the original texts.
		Published between 1882 and 1898, Professor Child's study of 305 popular ballads in the English language was the first comprehensive survey of all extant ballads and their known variants, and it remains an unsurpassed resource.
	store.doverpublications.com /0486431509.html (425 words)

	Loomis House Press: Child Ballads FAQ
		Professor Child also attempted to trace the historic and literary roots of the ballads he assembled, making use of his extensive knowledge of history and folklore to place each ballad in its larger historical and cultural context.
		Professor Child's research continued during the fifteen years over which his work was published, and he frequently discovered errors or oversights in the volumes that had already been issued.
		After Professor Child's death, Helen Sargent and George Kittredge, who had worked closely with Child, edited a single volume compilation of material from the full edition, omitting most of the commentary and including only the most complete ballad texts.
	www.loomishousepress.com /child/faq.html (559 words)

	Child Waters: Romantic Ballads at Mostly Medieval - Exploring the Middle Ages (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In order to preserve the historical integrity of the ballads in this section they are presented in their original dialects, which span a broad range.
		A synopsis of each ballad, in modern American English, is provided to aid in ease of comprehension of the dialects.
		The ballad, Child Waters, appears in Volume II of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads, Edited by Francis James Child.
	skell.org /explore/waters.htm (391 words)

	The Child Ballads & Other Folk Sources (Joe Sixpack's Celtic Music Guide)
		Child was not the only scholar to document British folk ballads -- others, notably English diarist Samuel Pepys, gathered similar collections -- but Childs was the most thorough, and the most highly regarded.
		When Professor Child proclaimed the British and Irish ballad tradition moribund and fit for a bit of academic taxidermy, it seems he was a bit premature...
		Loomis House Press is currently the powerhouse of the modern-day ballad publishers, midway through a complete, revised edition of the Child Ballads, as well as related works by likeminded song collectors such as Robert Chambers and others.
	www.slipcue.com /music/international/celtic/artists/childballads.html (776 words)

	Ballad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Romantic opera a ballad set into the musical texture may emphasize or play against the theatrical moment.
		In the 20th Century, "ballad" took on the meaning of a popular song "especially of a romantic or sentimental nature" (American Heritage Dictionary).
		Hence a power ballad is a love song performed using rock instruments.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ballads (893 words)

	Loomis House Press: Child Ballads (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		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.
		Professor Child's painstaking research ranges from ancient Greece to medieval Norway, with translations and detailed citations for all of the sources on which he draws.
		Loomis House Press is pleased to present the first new (non-facsimile) edition of the Child collection, completely re-set and edited to include all of Professor Child's post-publication corrections and additions, as well as ballad tunes drawn from Child's original sources.
	www.loomishousepress.com /child (199 words)

	Supernaturalist Child Ballads \| The Literary Gothic
		Punctuation, case, and spelling are reproduced as in the originals; not all variants of each ballad are presented here, stanza numbers have been removed, and explanatory headnotes may have been edited for brevity.
		Child's original 5-volume collection of ballads presents a number of variants of each work, sometimes more than twenty; the Sargent/Kittredge "reader's edition" used here presents just a few variants of each ballad, sometimes only one.
		This Web site presents only one variant of each ballad, although other variants available elsewhere on the Web may be listed; the boldface capital letter preceeding each text indicates which of the Child variants is used.
	www.litgothic.com /Texts/child.html (293 words)

	Child Ballads
		New "Alphabetical Ballad Locator Index" that brings all of the references to each ballad together in one list.
		Cross-references for each ballad to Bertrand Harris Bronson's The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads.
		Place names found in the ballad texts are linked directly to the new Gazetteer and maps.
	www.heritagemuse.com /cbchild_ballads03.htm (122 words)

	Scotland's Child Ballads Site
		Many of the finest ballad versions in Francis J Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads were obtained from Scottish sources.
		But many of the ballads are still part of a living cultural tradition - especially here in Scotland at the heart of Child's ballad country.
		For anyone interested in the ballads as song or as literature or as an insight into culture and history the only starting point is Professor Francis James Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads first published between 1882 and 1898.
	www.springthyme.co.uk /ballads/index.html (551 words)

	Amazon.com: "Lord Randal": And Other British Ballads (Dover Thrift Editions): Books: Francis James Child,Dover ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		It's a good introduction to the ballad, and these are some of the best written of the ancient British ballads.
		Great ballads are written in every culture to document the world that evolves around the common man. They also develop into tall tales which I feel is also valid on a cultural level.
		Still ballads like Bonny Barbara Allen and The Unquiet Grave are glorious examples of folk poetry.
	www.amazon.com /Lord-Randal-British-Ballads-Editions/dp/0486289877 (691 words)

	Scottish Ballads
		The rhythm patterns most commonly found in ballads are shown to the right (with the "fourteener" identified as "B").
		The origin of the ballad is lost in the distant mists of history, but some remain popular to this day.
		Books about (Scottish) Ballads are generally shelved together based on the focus of the topic, but all ballad books are not shelved together.
	www.fsu.edu /~speccoll/ballad.htm (1241 words)

	LEFT OFF THE DIAL - Live Gig Reviews - Dead Meadow with The Child Ballads at The Velvet Lounge in Washington, D.C. - ...
		Although Dead Meadow has been together about six years, The Child Ballads, who opened the concert, happened to be performing the second show of their career.
		In all honesty, it was probably a chance to see The Child Ballads that brought me out, because this is the new band fronted by none other than Stuart Lupton, the DC local who moved to New York with some friends and ended up fronting Jonathan Fire*Eater.
		From one stream of bizarre consciousness to another, Stuart thoroughly amused the crowd for over 5 minutes before grabbing his acoustic guitar and opening with a solo piece that proved his musical skills are also as intact as ever.
	www.leftoffthedial.com /DeadChild_live.htm (826 words)

	The Literary Gothic \| The Child Ballads
		For more on the Child ballads, see the Francis J. Child Ballads website, loaded with information on ballads, on Child, and with etexts.
		Or try this inexpensive collection of Childs ballads, the title of which features the famous death-by-poisoning ballad "Lord Randall", from the good folks at Dover Publications:
		This site presents only one variant of each ballad, although other variants available elsewhere on the Web may be listed; the boldface capital letter preceeding each text indicates which of the Child variants is used.
	www.litgothic.com /Authors/child.html (371 words)

	Child Ballads
		New geographic gazetteer of place references from the ballad / song texts.
		Indexed by ballad / song number, title, and first line.
		The ability to print any ballad / song, any page, any section, any book, or the entire work.
	www.heritagemuse.com /cbchild_ballads02.htm (160 words)

	Child Ballads database (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.isi.jhu.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The American academic Francis J Child compiled a collection of 305 British ballads, first published in 5 volumes in 1882-1898 as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads.
		This database, based on files provided by Cathy Lynn Preston of the University of Colorado, provides the text of those ballads for browsing and searching; it does not provide Child's scholarly commentary.
		There is one abc file and pdf for each ballad, but separate midi and graphical display file for each variant.
	peterrobins.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /ballads (229 words)

	English/Scot/Child ballads - CDs?
		Date: 26 Mar 05 - 08:56 PM This thread (Child Ballads: Anyone recorded the lot?) may help.
		The English revival canon: Child ballads and the invention of tradition
		most from the greig-duncan collection but im sure there will be some child ones thrown in as well as some more modern songs.
	www.mudcat.org /thread.cfm?threadid=79651 (957 words)

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