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Sometime in the early nineteenth century, most likely in the year 1818, the Reverend Robert Scott, minister of the parish of Glenbuchat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, compiled a collection of traditional ballads that until now has not been published. Most of the ballad collections produced during the Scottish Romantic Revival were eventually anthologized in Francis James Child's seminal English and Scottish Popular Ballads (five volumes, 1882-96). Yet, the Glenbuchat manuscripts, containing sixty-eight ballads in four folio volumes, were not included in Child's volumes. The complete work only came to light in 1949 when it was donated to the Special Collections of the Aberdeen University Library by a descendent of the original compiler.
Scott did not give the precise locations of where he collected his ballads or name the performers, but the texts are unique and appear to have been drawn from oral sources. As such, the ballads reveal a great deal about the nature of traditional music at the time they were collected.
The Glenbuchat Ballads were originally prepared for publication by David Buchan, one of the leading ballad scholars of the twentieth century. Upon Buchan's death, his former student James Moreira took up and completed his work and wrote the detailed introductory essay and annotations in this volume.
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This trove of previously unpublished Scottish ballads compiled by Reverend Robert Scott, a minister of the parish of Glenbuchat in Aberdeenshire, Scotland
- Offers a collection that has never been published, and only edited versions of two texts have appeared previously
- Shows influence of broadside ballads on Scottish oral tradition at a fairly early period
- Includes biography of the compiler, contextual survey of the community, and detailed annotations
- Contains full transcripts of 68 traditional Scottish ballads
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A trove of previously unpublished Scottish ballads
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- PublisherUniversity Press of Mississippi/The Elphinstone Institute
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1578069726
- ISBN 13 9781578069729
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages304
- EditorDavid Buchan, James Moreira
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The Glenbuchat Ballads
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University Press of Mississippi/The Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, 2007
ISBN 10: 1578069726
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. Pp.lxxiv,274. Map. This is an early 19th century collection of Scottish ballads described as "the most substantial unpublished manuscript collection of nineteenth century Scottish ballads." Includes a lengthy Introduction, notes to the ballads and a glossary. Seller Inventory # 025585
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Aberdeen : Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, 2007
ISBN 10: 1578069726
ISBN 13: 9781578069729
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Hardcover. Condition: New. lxxiv, 274 pages. Sixty-eight ballads, collected prior to 1818 in Glenbuchat, Aberdeenshire, together with an extensive introduction. The manuscripts only came to light in 1949 and so were not included in F.J. Child's English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Seller Inventory # PGABER37
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