Popular Music of the Olden Time a Collection of Ancient Songs, Ballads And Dance Tunes Illustrative of the National Music of England
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: December 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9781419173363
Subjects: Music; Genres & Styles - International; Songbooks - Folk/Ethnic; Music/Songbooks
First sentence: OF all the sources from which the fertile muse of the English ballad-maker has derived its subjects, no one has proved more inexhaustible, or more universally acceptable to the hearers, than the life and adventures of Robin Hood; and it is indeed singular that an outlaw of so early a time "should continue traditionally popular, be chanted in ballads, have given rise to numerous proverbs, and still be 'familiar in our mouth as household words,' in the nineteenth century.'"