Popular Music of the Olden Time Volume . 1; A Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, Illustrative of the National Music of England with a Short Introd. to the Different Reigns, and Notices of the Airs from Writers of the Sixteenth and Se
Popular Music of the Olden Time Volume . 1; A Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads, and Dance Tunes, Illustrative of the National Music of England with a Short Introd. to the Different Reigns, and Notices of the Airs from Writers of the Sixteenth and Se
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...Tower, by their uncle, the Duke of Gloucester" (reprinted in Evans' Old Ballads, iii. 13, ed. 1810), are to this tune; but ballads of this description which were sung to it are too many for enumeration. In the first volume of the Roxburghe Collection, at pages 136, 182, 376, 392, 486, 487, 488, and 490, are ballads to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...Tower, by their uncle, the Duke of Gloucester" (reprinted in Evans' Old Ballads, iii. 13, ed. 1810), are to this tune; but ballads of this description which were sung to it are too many for enumeration. In the first volume of the Roxburghe Collection, at pages 136, 182, 376, 392, 486, 487, 488, and 490, are ballads to the tune of Fortune, and all about murders, last dying speeches, or some heavy misfortunes. ' In the Pepys' Collection, i. 68, is a ballad of " The lamentable burning of the city of Cork, by the lightning which happened the last day of May, 1622, after the prodigious battle of the stares" (i.e., starlings), " which fought most strangely over and near the city the 12th and 14th May, 1621." Two other ballads require notice, because the tune is often referred to under their names, Dr. Faustus, and Aim not too high. The first, according to the title of the ballad, is " The Judgment of God showed upon Dr. John F austus: tune, Fortune my foe." A copy is in the Bagford Collection." It is illustrated by two woodcuts at the top: one representing Dr. Faustus signing the contract with the devil; and the other shewing him standing in a magic circle, with a wand in his left hand, and a. sword with flame running up it, in his right: a little devil seated on his right arm. Richard Jones had a licence to print the ballad "of the life and deathe of Dr. Faustus, the great cungcrer," on the 28th Feb., 1588-9. In the Roxburghe Collection, i. 434, is "Y0uth's warning piece," &c., " to the tune of Dr. Faustus; " printed for A. K., 1636. And in Dr. Wild's Iter Boreale, 1671, " The recantation of a penitent Proteus," &c., to the tune of Dr. ...
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