The Glenbuchat Ballads
The Glenbuchat Ballads
Compiled by Robert Scott
David Buchan
James Moreira
Copyright Date: 2007
Published by: University Press of Mississippi
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The Glenbuchat Ballads
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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 seminalEnglish 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 Balladswere 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.

David Buchan (1939-1994) was a leading international ballad scholar. James Moreira, director of the Maine Folklife Center, has published widely on the ballads of Canada, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

eISBN: 978-1-60473-158-3
Subjects: Music
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  1. Front Matter
    Front Matter (pp. i-vi)
  2. Table of Contents
    Table of Contents (pp. vii-viii)
  3. Preface and Acknowledgments
    Preface and Acknowledgments (pp. ix-xii)
  4. Abbreviations
    Abbreviations (pp. xiii-xv)
  5. Map of Glenbuchat
    Map of Glenbuchat (pp. xvi-xvi)
  6. Introduction
    Introduction (pp. xvii-lxxiv)

    The Glenbuchat manuscripts have hovered on the edge of ballad scholarship for nearly two centuries. They were known to at least two Scottish antiquarians in the 1820s, but from there the collection lapses into obscurity for more than a century and a quarter. It was one of the few Romantic era collections not included in Francis James Child’sThe English and Scottish Popular Ballads. Child did, in fact, reprint two Glenbuchat texts that had appeared earlier in print (Child 203A and 225K), and while he noted the source of one text, he apparently was not aware that it came from...

  7. The Ballads
    • Vol: I
      Vol: I (pp. 3-72)
    • Vol: II
      Vol: II (pp. 73-128)
    • Vol: III
      Vol: III (pp. 129-186)
    • Vol: IV
      Vol: IV (pp. 187-224)
  8. Notes to the Ballads
    Notes to the Ballads (pp. 225-250)
  9. Glossary
    Glossary (pp. 251-254)
  10. Works Cited
    Works Cited (pp. 255-262)
  11. Index of Titles and First Lines
    Index of Titles and First Lines (pp. 263-266)
  12. Index of Child and Laws Types
    Index of Child and Laws Types (pp. 267-270)
  13. Index of Names and Places
    Index of Names and Places (pp. 271-274)
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