The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #95315   Message #1856245
Posted By: dick greenhaus
11-Oct-06 - 06:10 PM
Thread Name: F.J. Child - entire work online!!!
Subject: RE: F.J. Child - entire work online!!!
GUEST- (and anyone else that's interested in The Long Harvest)

Please E-mail me (dick@camsco.com). I may have some interesting news.

BTW-
The Loomis House Edition of Child, IMO, is a considerable improvement over the Dover reprints.
a) It consolidates Child's notes, which were scattered over the five volumes, and puts them where Child would have wanted them--attached to the ballad they refer to.
b) It presents the tunes that Child provided (meager as they were) in a sane manner: the tune is presented next to the set of words that uses that tune.
3) A large number of tunes, available to Child from his sources, but not included by Child in older editions have been added.