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Total number of records: 26

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Brotherton Collection14
English Literature4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2

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folk songs, english26
ballads, english20
sea songs11
songs, english5
english literature3
music3
ballads, scots1
folk music1
folk songs, scots1
letters, english1

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Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814)11
Graham, G F (1789-1867)4
Graham, G. F4
Cruikshank, George (1792-1878)3
Dibdin, Charles (1768-1833)3
Dibdin, Thomas (1771-1841)3
Ingledew, Christopher James Davison (1833-)3
Chappell, W (1809-1888)2
Macfarren, Sir G A (1813-1887)2
Aikin, John (1747-1822)1

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The Songs of Scotland (v.1)

Graham, G F (1789-1867)

1848-49

For voice and piano.

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The Songs of Scotland (v.2)

Graham, G F (1789-1867)

1848-49

For voice and piano.

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The Songs of Scotland (v.3)

Graham, G F (1789-1867)

1848-49

For voice and piano.

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Songs and letters copied by Captain Francis Burdet.

Burdet, Francis

1706-1735

Manuscript contains from one end of the volume: (in the hand of Elizabeth Wyndham) Ten pages of childish mathematical exercises, followed by accounts of rentals due, "to me and my sister Sarah Wyndha...

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Jolly Roger: a song probably by Thomas D'Urfey.

D'urfey, Thomas

c. 1730

A comic song in 73 lines, beginning "Jolly Roger Twangdillo of Plowden Hill", published in the collection "Pills to Purge Melancholy", compiled by D'Urfey (vol. 1 of 1719 edition).

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Altenglische Balladen. Fabel von Laudine. Siegeslied der Franken

Bodmer, Johann Jakob (1698-1783); Percy, Thomas (1729-1811); Hartmann von Aue

1780

Altenglische Balladen: translations from Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry; Fabel von Laudine: from Hartmann von Aue's Iwein; Siegeslied der Franken: Ludwigslied.

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Vocal poetry : or, A select collection of English songs

Aikin, John (1747-1822)

1810

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The songs of Scotland

Graham, G F (1789-1867)

1849

For voice and piano. acc.

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Popular music of the olden time : a collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes, illustrative of the national music of England... also a short account of the minstrels (v.1)

Chappell, W (1809-1888); Macfarren, Sir G A (1813-1887)

[1855-59]

"With short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries" - t.p.

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Popular music of the olden time : a collection of ancient songs, ballads, and dance tunes, illustrative of the national music of England... also a short account of the minstrels (v.2)

Chappell, W (1809-1888); Macfarren, Sir G A (1813-1887)

[1855-59]

"With short introductions to the different reigns, and notices of the airs from writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries" - t.p.

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