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ENGLISH SONG AND BALLAD MUSIC.
The tune has passed through all the processes of alteration that tradition so
frequently engenders, till at last it has become difficult to trace any resemblance
between the present version and the primitive one. The following is the tune as
printed in the Pills : —
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Volume 2
ShelfmarkGlen.254a
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Volumes 1-2 - Popular music of the olden time
DescriptionA collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes ... with short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Also a short account of the minstrels. Airs harmonized by G.A. Macfarren. London: Cramer, Beale & Chappell, [1859]. 2 volumes. Paged continuously. [An expansion of his "Collection of national English airs", published 1838-40.]
ShelfmarkGlen.254-254a
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Glen Collection of printed music
DescriptionScottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject.
Special collections of printed music
DescriptionThe Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi.