Child Ballad site

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: masato sakurai
Date: 10 Jan 08 - 09:47 PM

Internet Archive: Text Archive is the most resourceful, because you can download the whole volumes of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898) there. In adition, Helen Child Sargent and George Lyman Kittredge, eds., English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1904), and Tristram P. Coffin, The British Traditional Ballad In North America (1950) are available.

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: chrisr18
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 12:21 AM

Thanks Tootler and MMario. I just checked the library and it looks like the Loomis House versions do have some tunes in them. I also had forgotten that I remembered seeing a collection of I think the Bronson books at the library at Wellesley College, which I visit from time to time, so thanks for indirectly reminding me of that.

Also, masato, thanks a lot for the Archive links, I don't know why I didn't think of that to begin with. Part of my work right now is helping get books ready to be digitized into the Archive, so that was just a bit of a brain cramp on my part I guess.

Chris

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: Ross Campbell
Date: 11 Jan 08 - 10:33 PM

Just found this - cd contains scanned pages from the original hardback edition

Ebay Child Ballads on CD

Ross

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: Mick Pearce (MCP)
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 04:24 AM

Since you can get scanned copies of child from The Internet Text Archive (including the original scans from the FTP site if you wish) I can't see why you'd bid for the CD on ebay. Generally I'd say the pdfs or djvu files were easier to work with.

Between The Internet Text Archive and Google books there are a lot of ballad related book, mainly 19th century but a few earlier and some from the early years of the 20th century, available. I have about 200 books downloaded from these sites relating to ballads and songs that came from these site.

Mick

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: Joe Offer
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 04:48 AM

Chris, we may well be the best online source for tune for Child Ballads. It's a bit tricky to search for Child Ballads here - put

child_#

(don't forget the underscore) in the search box, and they'll come up.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: Jack Blandiver
Date: 12 Jan 08 - 04:56 AM

For the various Child Ballad versions & variations found in the Max Hunter archive:

http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/child.html

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: chrisr18
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 12:01 AM

Thanks for the tip, Joe, it's turned up some useful stuff.

Chris

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: chrisr18
Date: 13 Jan 08 - 12:02 AM

Oh and thanks for that Max Hunter link, too, that's some really great stuff.

Chris

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: Desert Dancer
Date: 11 Feb 08 - 07:19 PM

Inevitable, I suppose: Child Ballads in Wikisourse; there are linked articles in Wikipedia for each.

(Sorry if this has been mentioned before... I couldn't find any...)

~ Becky in Tucson

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: Joe Offer
Date: 02 Oct 12 - 11:34 AM

I came across an interesting Child Ballads project today: http://71.174.62.16/Demo/LongerHarvest. I can't figure out who produced this Website, but I'm impressed.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: Bill D
Date: 02 Oct 12 - 11:45 AM

wow... lots of stuff there! Thanks Joe.

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 02 Oct 12 - 01:41 PM

Just to point out that both "Long Harvest" (10 CDs of music plus one CD containing complete notes for the 10 CDs) and "Blood & Roses" (5-CD set) have been re-issued and are available from CAMSCO Music.

Subject: RE: Child Ballad site
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 02 Oct 12 - 08:34 PM

Also to point out that Bronson'a 4 volumes of "Traditional Tunes to the Child Ballads, and his condensation single volume "The Singing Tradition of the Child Ballads" , as well as the Loomis House Edition of Child and Sharp's "English Folk Song in the Soputhern Appalachians" (volume 1 consists of ballads)are all available from either Loomis House Press or CAMSCO Music.