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Broadside ballads : songs from the streets, taverns, theatres and countryside of 17th-century England / selected and edited by Lucie Skeaping, foreword by Andrew Motion.

M1739.3 .B76 2005

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Format:: Musical score
Contributor:: Skeaping, Lucie.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: Ballads, English--17th century.; Ballads, English.; Broadsides--England--17th century.; Broadsides.; England.
Genre:: Folk music.; Notated music.
Physical Description:: 1 score (168 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm
Place of Publication:: London : Faber Music, 2005.
Contents:: The baffled knight; The beehive; The bonny grey-eyed morn (Jockey roused with love); A caveat for cutpurses; The country lass; The countryman's Joy; Courage crowned with conquest; The courtiers health (The merry boys of the times); The courteous carman and the amorous maid; The crafty maid (The batchellour outwitted); The crost couple (A good misfortune); Cupids courtisie (The young gallant foil'd at his own weapon); A Warning to all custard eaters; A pleasant new ballad of Daphne; Diddle diddle (The kind country lovers); The doleful dance and song of death; The downfall of dancing (The overflow of three fidlers, and three bagg-pipe players); Drive the cold winter away; The dumpling woman's delight; England's great prognosticator; The fair maid of Islington (The London vintner over-reach'd); The famous ratcatcher with his travels; The female captain (The counterfit bridegroom); The gelding of the devil; Good advice to batchelors; The great boobee; Gunpowder plot; Harvest home; Hey, then up go we; The husband who met his match; The Irish jigg (The night ramble); Jockey's lamentation (Over the hills and far away); The jolly miller (The old wife); The jolly tradesmen; The joviall broome man; The jovial lass (Doll and Roger); The Lancashire cuckold (The country parish-clerk betray'd by a conjurer's enchanted chamber pot); London mourning in ashes; Lumps of pudding; The lunatick lover (The young man's call to Grim king of the ghosts for cure); The maid's complaint for want of a dil doul; A merry jest of John Thomson and Jakaman his wife; Modesty amazed (The Dorsetshire damosel importunate with her mother); A ditty delightful of mother Watkin's ale; My dog and I; Neptune's raging fury (The gallant seaman's sufferings); The north country lovers (The plain downright merry wooing between John and Joan); The northern lasses lamentation (The unhappy maid's misfortune); Old England grown new; The old woman's legacy to her cat; Oyster nan; The saint turn'd sinner; Seldom cleanly; The seven merry wives of London; Shameless Joan (The old woman of Finsbury); The slighted maid (The pining lover); An old song on the Spanish Armada (Sir Francis Drake); A ballad of the strange and wonderful storm of hail; The three ravens; A ballad upon tobacco; The trader's medley (The cries of London); The trooper watering his nag; True love requited (The bayliff's daughter of Islington); The united lovers; The vindication of top-knots and commodes; When cannons are roaring; The Wiltshire wedding; The Winchester wedding; Would ye have a young virgin?; You lasses and lads; Jigg: The cheaters cheated.
Notes:: Texts with melodies.
ISBN:: 0571522238; 9780571522231
OCLC:: 123446517

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Broadside ballads : songs from the streets, taverns, theatres and countryside of 17th-century England / selected and edited by Lucie Skeaping, foreword by Andrew Motion.

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