Help: online edition Child's ballads

Subject: online edition Child's ballads
From: Letty
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 09:32 AM

Hi all,

Is there an (scholarly) online edition of Child's ballads? I've been to www.childballads.com, but it's not complete.

Thanks, Letty

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 10:17 AM

You might try Lesley the Contemplator's site.

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: MMario
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 10:42 AM

Letty - I have been unable to find one in three years of searching.

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 12:30 PM

My friend Judith owns the complete Child set--if you need something specific, let me know and I'll ask her to bring it in..............there are either very few (or no?) tunes in it though.

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: MMario
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 03:41 PM

I DO have the text of the songs - without commentary.

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: Sorcha
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 04:10 PM

I believe hers has commentary--it's 5 vols. She also has the complete Sharp and Niles........

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: Malcolm Douglas
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 09:08 PM

There isn't a full online version, though there is an incomplete concordance (song texts only; no notes) which requires database software.  The work involved in processing the entire thing is very considerable (nearly 3,000 pages of extremely detailed text).  I'm working on it, but it's a long-term project.  Dick and Susan (founders of the Digital Tradition) have plans involving it too.

Malcolm

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 23 Nov 00 - 10:57 PM

There are a few tunes in Child's addenda at the end of the final volume. Not much help. What you really need for tunes is Bertrand Bronson's The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads. This is in four very expensive and now out of print volumes from Princeton. Until Dick and Susan get them all up on the Mudcat, I suggest you use inter-library loan (and maybe a good copy machine).

Sandy

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: GUEST,Luuk
Date: 24 Nov 00 - 08:51 AM

Mario, if you have an electronic copy of the text I would be very interested. Please mail me at [e-mail]

Luuk

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: Gypsy
Date: 24 Nov 00 - 11:18 AM

I have the Bronsons edition..can mail copies of specific tunes, if that will help.

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: Sorcha
Date: 24 Nov 00 - 07:25 PM

Whee! We've got here--one complete Child with commentary (Sorcha), one complete text (Mario) and one complete Bronson (Gypsy). Looks like that covers it--

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: MMario
Date: 26 Nov 00 - 09:06 PM

whoa! looks like a project in the making, eh?

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 26 Nov 00 - 09:25 PM

It's a project in the working. Lot of work tho.

We're adding at least one version of each Child Ballad to DigiTrad as we go along. That's work, too.

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: John in Brisbane
Date: 26 Nov 00 - 09:48 PM

And as of last week I now have access to Bronson for extended periods - it's taken me a while to manage it. Regards, John

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: MMario
Date: 26 Nov 00 - 09:54 PM

john - feel free to e-mail me scans if it's possible and could help get transcribed

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Nov 00 - 11:03 AM

John, you could send me scans too. I seem to be at a standstill with the no tunes list. I could do come abc's. My e mail is at the resource site.

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: MMario
Date: 27 Nov 00 - 11:08 AM

luuk - my e-mail's bouncing from that address...

Sorcha - you have a complete child's? *drool*

Subject: RE: Help: online edition Child's ballads
From: Sorcha
Date: 27 Nov 00 - 11:31 AM

Well, sort of. My friend Judith owns it, and because I have proved over the years that I am Very Good with books, she would let me borrow it.