Popular Music of the Olden Time
Subtitle: The Whole of the Airs Harmonized by G. A. Macfarren. Volume 2
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: January 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9781402161063
Subjects: Popular Music,music,Olden Time,ballads,English,folk-songs,William Chappell; Art / Criticism; Music / Folk & Traditional
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.'"