Essays in the study of folk-songs,
by the Countess Evelyn Martingo - Cesaresco.

Description

Main Author

Martinengo-Cesaresco, Evelyn Lilian Hazeldine Carrington, contessa, 1852-1931.

Language(s)

English

Published

London, G. Redway, 1886.

Subjects

Folk songs > Folk songs / History and criticism.

Note

CONTENTS. - Introduction. - The inspiration of death in folk-poetry. - Nature in folk-songs. - Armenian folk-songs. - Venetian folk-songs. - Sicilian folk-songs. - Greek songs of Calabrid - Folk-songs of Provence. - The white paternoster. - The diffusion of ballads - Songs for the rite of May. - The idea of fate in Southern traditions. - Folk-lullabies. - Folk-dirges.
"Books of reference": p.[393]-395.

Physical Description

xl, 395 p. 21 cm.

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