The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (digital edition) also includes:

Data CD-ROM

  • New "Alphabetical Ballad Locator Index" that brings all of the references to each ballad together in one list.

  • Hyperlinked margin boxes offering easy access to all of the Additions & Corrections and additional lyric variants throughout the ten parts.

  • Cross-references for each ballad to Bertrand Harris Bronson's The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads.

  • Critically placed Comment Boxes showing both the main texts as originally printed and the "Corrections to the Print" referenced in later parts.

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  • Place names found in the ballad texts are linked directly to the new Gazetteer and maps.

  • Two-way automated hyper-links between:
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    Master Table of Contents => Ballad texts
    Ballad text <=> Glossary
    Ballad text <=> Gazetteer <=> Maps
    Ballad text <=> Child's "Additions and Corrections" for each ballad
    Ballad text <=> Child's music annotations => playable MIDI tunes
    Indexes => Ballad texts and notes