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Ballads

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Folk ballads

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Biography of William Elderton, 1920

 File — Box 02: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124700], Folder: 25
Identifier: MSS020:01.47
Scope and Contents

The materials include a biography on William Elderton, an Elizabethan actor and ballad writer.

Dates: 1920

Elizabethan ballads, 1917-1923

 File — Box 01: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124692], Folder: 14
Identifier: MSS020:01.14
Scope and Contents

The material includes various two documents regarding different Elizabethan ballads. One article has a series of songs, which include the words and the score. The other essay is a series of notes on the "Shiburn Ballads," giving some insight and facts about the songs based on a volume of these ballads written by Mr. Andrew Clark. Hyder E. Rollins wrote both documents.

Dates: 1917-1923

The Recovery of the Metre of the Cid, 1931

 File — Box 02: Series MSS020:01 [Barcode: 35138008124700], Folder: 01
Identifier: MSS020:01.23
Scope and Contents

The materials include Volume 46, Number 2 of Publications of the Modern Language Association of America (PMLA) with an article titled "The Recovery of the Metre of Cid," written by William Ellery Leonard.

Dates: 1931