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In 1860, Child published an eight-volume collection entitled English and Scottish Ballads, generally presenting just one variant of each ballad, via Little, Brown and Company. [6] However, as a scholarly edition this was superseded by his later and similarly named The English and Scottish Popular Ballads .
The ballad, though historically inaccurate, recounts the Battle of Pinkie Cleugh, the last large-scale encounter between the Scottish and English armies. 173: Mary Hamilton: Mary Hamilton, servant to Queen of the Scots, Mary Stuart, has an affair with the king and becomes pregnant. Out of guilt, she casts her newborn into the sea.
Francis James Child (February 1, 1825 – September 11, 1896) was an American scholar, educator, and folklorist, best known today for his collection of English and Scottish ballads now known as the Child Ballads. Child was Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory at Harvard University, where he produced influential editions of English poetry.
Sport, play and fighting. " Bold Thady Quill " – a Cork song written about 1895 by Johnny Tom Gleeson (1853–1924) [ 101 ] "The Bold Christy Ring" – song about Cork hurler Christy Ring to the tune of Bold Thady Quill. "The Contender" – song by Jimmy Macarthy about 1930s Irish boxer Jack Doyle, recorded by Christy Moore.
The Children's Hour (poem) Print of Thomas Buchanan Read 's portrait of Longfellow's three daughters. " The Children's Hour " is a poem by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, first published in the September 1860 edition of The Atlantic Monthly.
List of the Child Ballads. Little John a Begging. Lizie Lindsay. Lizie Wan. The Lochmaben Harper. Lord Ingram and Chiel Wyet. Lord Lovel. Lord Maxwell's Last Goodnight. The Lord of Lorn and the False Steward.
Contents. Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/Child Ballads/Child Ballads complete index. published his 1860 collection in 8 volumes. published a second collection in 10 volumes between 1882 and 1898. The have been numbered from 1 to 305.
In 2008, a phonautograph paper recording made by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville of "Au clair de la lune" on 9 April 1860, was digitally converted to sound by researchers at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This one-line excerpt of the song is the earliest recognizable record of the human voice and the earliest recognizable record ...