British Broadside Ballad and Its Music. US in dj.

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SIMPSON, Claude M. British Broadside Ballad and Its Music . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, (1966). Pp. (2),[i]-xxxiii,(1),1-922,(2). 8vo, red and patterned black cloth with gilt lettered black title block to spine, top edge dyed black. "A monumental work of twentieth-century scholarship, this book relates a large number of British broadside ballads to the tunes for which they were designed. The broadside ballad was essentially an urban form. London was its headquarters, and its most influential period extended from the middle of the sixteenth to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Brtoadsides were a medium of mass communication, and one exploanation of their popularity and influence is that they were written to familiar music. Much of this music has become dissociated from the texts. In his detecting work, besides notation occasionally printed on the actual broadsides, Mr. Simpson has made use of virginal, lute, and harpsichord pieces based on ballad tunes, collections of country dances, books of music instruction, folio vocal collections, poetical miscellanies with music, and ballad operas." - from the dj. With an extensive index. A bit musty, name stamp, else vg in lightly rubbed, nicked, spine-wrinkled, price-clipped dj. 125.00. N° de ref. del artículo 71268

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