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Victorian Songhunters is a history of popular song collecting and ballad editing from 1820 to 1883.
The translation of “Petit galop pour Mamou” is “Short galop for Mamou,” not “Gallop on to Mamou” as implied. The book also neglects to explain that Mamou is a town in Nova Scotia; American teachers unfamiliar with Nova Scotia would in ...
Lucy was unlike any of the other collectors in that she was a trained singer in addition to having a practical and scholarly knowledge of folksongs. Her own voice provided a link with the singers, and presumably she did not sing in a ...
... selected from original manuscripts and early printed copies in the Library of W. Kitchiner (London: Hurst, ... Thomas Wright, ed., Songs and Carols now first printed from a Manuscript of the Fifteenth Century (London: Percy Society, ...