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Francis James Child collected the words to over 300 British folk ballads. Illustration by Arthur Rackham of Child Ballad 26, "The Twa Corbies"Child's collection was not the first of its kind; there had been many less scholarly collections of English and Scottish ballads, particularly from Bishop Thomas Percy's Reliques of Ancient English Poetry (1765) onwards. [4]
The cast includes Little John, and the Sheriff of Nottingham. Covered are Robin's travels, his robberies, his relations with the king and his betrayal and death. 118. Robin Hood and Guy of Gisbourne. Little John and Robin argue, and John leaves in a huff, only to be captured by the Sheriff.
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.
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.
Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard. "Matty Groves", also known as "Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard" or "Little Musgrave", is a ballad probably originating in Northern England that describes an adulterous tryst between a young man and a noblewoman that is ended when the woman's husband discovers and kills them. It is listed as Child ballad number ...
Professor B H Bronson, published tunes for "Hares on the Mountain" in his epic work Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads because he thought it was a version of The Twa Magicians (Child 44, Roud 1350). A.L. Lloyd refers to the song as an "attenuated form" of the ballad. [25]
Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer on the album Child Ballads; and; John Langstaff on his 1964 album Nottamun Town. Being a well-documented song publicised by Mudcat, [15] and Mainly Norfolk, [16] the song was recorded by Jon Boden and Oli Steadman for inclusion in their respective lists of daily folk songs "A Folk Song A Day" [17] and "365 ...
The Cherry-Tree Carol. "The Cherry-Tree Carol". Genre. Ballad. Christmas carol. " The Cherry-Tree Carol " (Roud 453) is a ballad with the rare distinction of being both a Christmas carol and one of the Child Ballads (no. 54). [1] The song itself is very old, reportedly sung in some form at the Feast of Corpus Christi in the early 15th century.