I began working on this concordance to The English and Scottish Popular Ballads in the early 1980's while a graduate student at the University of Colorado, Boulder. At the time I was interested in the ...

Medieval Ballad were too popular in English world. There were a different kind of ballad but all maintain the same narrative outline. Ballad in first were Communal ring-dance. Authorship was ...

The alteration and improvement of the original demonstrates Burns’s ability as a preserver and restorer of traditional Scottish ballads.

Lord Randal is a traditional popular ballad written in the late Middle Ages. Its text is part of a volume written in ca 1710 and published in the “English and Scottish Popular Ballads”.

such as Creative Scotland support music and other creative Scottish industries so that its traditional cultures can be showcased regularly and celebrated globally. Play It!: Explore song elements ...