Broadside ballads from the Pepys collection : a selection of texts, approaches, and recordings / edited by Patricia Fumerton.

Broadside ballads from the Pepys collection : a selection of texts, approaches, and recordings / edited by Patricia Fumerton.

Tempe, Ariz. : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2012.

xxiii, 335 p. : ill. ; 27 cm + 2 sound discs (digital ; 4 3/4 in).

Medieval and renaissance texts and studies ; v. 421
MRTS texts for teaching ; v. 6

Includes 155 selected ballads, presented in modern fonts, but laid out as they were originally, including original artwork (woodcuts). The recordings are of mostly unaccompanied individual singers (men and women).

A teaching edition and guide to the online Pepys Ballad Archive (PBA), conceived as the first phase and companion to EBBA (the online English Broadside Ballad Archive (http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu)). The PBA is the product of a team affiliated with the Early Modern Center of the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara with considerable aid from the Department of Music.

A selection of representative ballads from each of Pepys's categories, along with essays explaining some of the features that characterize the categories by which he gathered the ballads, and two CD recordings of the first two stanzas of each selected ballad.

Includes bibliographical references.

Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series) ; v. 421.
Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies (Series). MRTS texts for teaching ; v. 6.

PR1181 .B76 2012

222911

CD 534