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Bruce O. Help: Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript (14) RE: Help: Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript 08 Jan 00


Ault is good, both his 16th and 17th century ones (I've only recently been able to acquire my own copy of the latter). Quiller Gouch, I have but have little use for, because with Child it's unnecessary, and when it comes to traditional songs beware of editors who weren't collectors- you'll usually get a conflated text rather than a true traditional one. They are good songs, but if they aren't the way any traditional singer actaully sang it, then they aren't folk songs as far as I'm concerned.
Hampden I don't know. Barclay Squire: I only know of his collaborative one with Lucy Broadwood, and co-editorship of the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book. I had only a mistaken reference to his index of ballad opera tunes which I coundn't find, so started my own, and am glad I did, because when I finally located his I found mine was much better. {I didn't find out about the good one in 'The National Tune Index', 1980, until much later.)


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