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To describe a ballad as a "Child
ballad" is to immediately authenticate its bona fides. Both
the original five-volume set, published in ten-parts, and later
reprints from the mid-twentieth century, are long out of print,
and are occasionally available from booksellers at high cost. |
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This seminal work
is now available on CD-ROM (single user or network license).
 For
the first time ever it is widely available to scholars, educators,
singers, and enthusiasts in a comprehensive, digitally searchable
and printable version. Individual ballads - or indeed the entire
2,800+ plus-page collection - can be printed out. Looking up
unfamiliar words is easy using built-in hyperlinks between lyrics
and glossary. The Gazetteer supplies the geographic location
of places mentioned in the ballads with brief historic notes,
and is cross-referenced to both the ballad texts and newly developed
maps. Additional images, commentary, music tracks, and other
enhanced content are being made available on this Heritage Muse
web-site. |
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Each digitized text CD-ROM is
accompanied by an  audio
CD (playable in a standard stereo CD player) containing music
tracks of outstanding, contemporary interpreters, preservers,
and collectors of the living song tradition from around the
world. |
