Aarne, Antti, 120
Allingham, William, 128–129
Appalachia, 52
Aristotle, 96
avant-texte, 152, 153, 155, 164, 165, 166, 167
Bach, J. S.
Toccata and Fugue in D minor, 5, 6, 13, 18, 23
ballad singers, semi-professional, 57
Ballad Society, 128
ballads and songs
As I me rode this endre dai, 42
Barbara Allan/Allen (Child 84), 20, 65, 174–178, 181
Bloody Miller (Roud 263), 43
Bonnie Annie (Child 24), 133
Chevy Chase (Child 162), 64
Clerk Colvill (Child 42), 4, 11
Fair Margaret and Sweet William (Child 74), 31–32, 34–35
False Hearted Miller (Roud 263), 43
George Collins, 2–4, 5, 11, 15, 22, 25
Lord Bateman (Child 53), 18, 113, 116
Lord Randal (Child 12), 52
Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor (Child 73), 29–30
O No John (Roud 146), 125
Our Goodman (Child 274), 154
Robin Hood Rescuing Will Stutly (Child 141), 133
Sir Aldingar (Child 59), 38–41, 42–43
Sir Colin (Child 61), 36, 37, 38
The Baffled Knight (Child 112), 142–143
The Battle of Harlaw (Child 163), 65
The Berkshire Tragedy (Roud 263), 43–47, 51
The Bold Princess Royal (Roud 528), 51
The Bonnie Banks o Fordie (Child 14), 155–165, 169–172
The Bonny Earl of Murray (Child 181), 147
The Child of Elle, 122
The Children in the Wood (Roud 288), 70
The Cruel Miller (Roud 263), 43–47, 51
The Cruel Mother (Child 20), 65, 130–132
The Fatal Ramillies (Roud 1266), 52
The Golden Vanity (Child 286), 65, 104–105
The Gypsy Laddie (Child 200), 60
The Holy Well (Roud 1697), 105–111
The Jolly Beggar (Child 279), 135
The Maid Freed from the Gallows (Child 95), 18, 52, 65
The Marriage of Sir Gawain (Child 31), 42
The Mountains High (Roud 397), 51
The Outlandish Knight (Child 4), 61–62, 65, 154
The Proud Pedlar, 64
The Seeds of Love (Roud 3), 26
Two Sisters, The (Child 10), 18, 104, 134–135
Bänkelsang, 117
Bateson, F. W., 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13
Bates, Sarah, 34
Beckett, Samuel, 152
Hammerklavier Sonata, 13
Bellemin-Noël, Jean, 152
Bell, John, 128
Benjamin, Walter, 117
Beowulf, 55
Berliner, Émile, 95
bibliographic codes, 71, 82, 136
Bogatyrëv, Peter, 10–11
bothy ballads, 60
Bownd, Nicholas, 64
Brady, Erika, 95
broadsides
black-letter, 81
decline of, 87
mise en page, 81
pasted on walls, 57, 70, 76, 82, 83, 96
‘slip songs’, 45
Stationers’ Register entries, 34
textual variation, 51–52
typographical errors, 79
Brompton, John, 39
Brontë, Charlotte
Jane Eyre, 21
Brown, Mary Ellen, 37
Buchan, David
The Ballad and the Folk, 10, 50
Burstow, Henry, 33–34
Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, 57–58
Campbell, J. F., 134
cantefables, 18
Carpenter, James Madison
and folk plays, 154
and ‘Scotticization’, 160
collecting in Britain and Ireland, 102–103, 139–140
collecting practices, 73, 78, 102–103, 139–142, 146
interview with Alan Jabbour, 140, 141, 146
Catnach, James, 45
Cerquiglini, Bernard, 66, 67, 68
Chandler, Daniel, 75
Cheap Repository Tracts, 69
Child, Francis James
and broadside print, 50, 90, 136
and conjectural emendation, 133
and ‘Sir Aldingar’ (Child 59), 40, 43
and ‘Sir Colin’ (Child 61), 36, 37, 38
editing principles, 130–137
English and Scottish Ballads (1857–58), 128
Chopin, Frédéric, 14, 16, 86, 87
Christophersen, Paul, 39
Coffin, Tristram Potter, 135
Collection of Old Ballads, A, 29, 121, 122, 133
Collins, Shirley, 62
‘conceptual text’, 165, 166, 167
Cornwallis, Sir William, 69, 70, 73
critique génétique, 150–151
Dalrymple, David, 122
Dancing Master, The, 30
Davis, Arthur Kyle, Jr., and editing, 137–138
de Biasi, Pierre-Marc, 153
deictics, 61
Derrida, Jacques, 7, 74, 96–97, 99
Diceto, Ralph de, 39
Dickens, Charles
Dixon, James Henry, 131
Donne, John, 178
Douglas, Gavin, 58
Dugaw, Dianne, 51
D’Urfey, Thomas, 122
Eisenstein, Elizabeth, 77
Eliot, T. S., 152
Ely Farming Memoranda, 56
England, John, 26
Ferrer, Daniel, 153
Fish, Stanley, 60
Flodden, battle of, 58
Friedman, Albert, 122, 123, 173
Furnivall, Frederick J., 128
Galicia, Spanish, 118
Gammon, Vic, 57
Gardiner, George B., 4
Genette, Gérard, 9
Grainger, Percy
and electro-mechanical recording, 92
and Lincolnshire singers, 110, 116
and music transcription, 90–91, 96, 101, 111, 113
and phonograph recording, 73, 79, 90–91, 96
and singers’ recall, 142
Graves, Robert, 129
Green, Richard Firth, 59
Greig–Duncan folk song collection, 26
Grier, James, 93
Gypsy singers, 60
Hales, John W., 128
Hambridge, Somerset, 26
Harker, Dave, 117
Heather, Samuel, 105, 106, 110
Helmholtz, Hermann von, 99, 113
Hints to Collectors of Folk Music, 111
Hogg, James, 83
Holcroft, Thomas, 70
Honko, Lauri, and ‘mental text’, 113, 165
horizon of expectations, 60, 63
Hughes, Thomas, 134
Hugo, Victor, 152
intention, authorial, 120, 139, 153, 180
International Folk Music Council, 28
interpretive communities, 60
Jakobson, Roman, 10–11
James, Henry, 14
Johnson, Samuel, 123
‘Life of Milton’, 151
Keats, John
Keed, John, 46
Ker, W. P., 9
Khan, Ali Akbar, 86
Kidson, Frank, 26
Kinloch, George R., 133
Knight of the Burning Pestle, The, 31, 34
Knight, Stephen, 133
Krohn, Julius and Kaarle, 120
Laidlaw, Margaret, 83
Latin verse, 180
Levin, Richard, 33
Lloyd, A. L., 173
Lollards, 58
Lomax, Alan, 103
Lord, Albert B.
Singer of Tales, The, 9–10, 50, 53
Lyle, Emily, 36–37
Lytton, Edward Bulwer, 21
Macqueen, Thomas, 31
Marconi, Guglielmo, 72
McEwan, Mrs Alexander, 155, 158, 159, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166
McKenzie, D. F., 33
McShane, Angela, 59
metaphysics of presence, 97, 99, 100, 113, 116, 117, 119
Milton, John
Lycidas, 5
‘mondegreens’, 147
Moore, Marianne, 65
Motherwell, William, 17, 28, 35, 90, 125–127, 128, 131
mouvance, 67
‘murdered-sweetheart’ ballads, 44
music writing, prescriptive and descriptive, 91–92, 101, 104
‘musicking’, 7
O’Keeffe, Katherine O’Brien, 179, 180
Old English, written, 55
Old English verse, 179–181
operas, based on Child ballads, 18
oral tradition
and ballad melodies, 34, 50, 52, 75, 96, 97
as eighteenth-century construct, 35, 74
iconic status of, 27–28, 49–50, 63, 74, 98
non-falsifiability of, 32, 33, 35, 41
Osborne, Dorothy, 26
palimpsest, 150, 153, 166, 167, 168
parity of ignorance, 36, 37, 41, 42, 43, 47
Peirce, Charles Sanders, 93–94
Penguin Book of English Folk Songs, 3, 4
Pepys, Samuel, 35
Percy, Thomas, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, 37, 120–123, 124, 128, 137, 173
and ‘Fair Margaret and Sweet William’, 31
and ‘Lord Thomas and Fair Ellinor’, 29
and ‘Sir Aldingar’, 43
and ‘Sir Colin’, 36
and ‘The Child of Elle’, 122
Scott’s discovery of Reliques, 121
Percy folio manuscript, 36, 38, 40, 41, 42, 90, 121–123, 128
Peters, John Durham, 94
Phelps, Sarah, 154
Piers Plowman, 58
Pitts, John, 45
Poe, Edgar Allan
‘The Philosophy of Composition’, 151
political ballads, 59
Pound, Ezra, 21
Proust, Marcel, 152
punctuation, 80, 81, 103, 137, 138, 178–180, 181–182
Quiller-Couch, Arthur, 16, 129
Ramsay, Allan, 122
reading aloud, 53, 54, 59, 66, 70, 79, 99, 179, 180
reading communities, 54, 56, 78
Reeves, James, 125
Renwick, Roger, 20
Ritson, Joseph, 30, 122, 123, 124, 128
romances, medieval, 15, 38, 41, 58–59, 60, 62, 66, 122
Rothenbuhler, Eric W., 94
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 96
Sandys, William, 30
Saussure, Ferdinand de, 8, 9, 96
Scots Musical Museum, 80
Scott, David, of Peterhead, 130
Scott, Walter
and Hogg’s mother, 83
and Percys Reliques, 121
and ‘Sir Aldingar’, 43
letter to Motherwell, 90, 125–126, 127
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, 120, 123–126, 129, 130, 137, 147
Scott de Martinville, Édouard-Léon, 92, 94, 95
Seeger, Charles, 91–92
Shakespeare, William
and collaborative playwriting, 21
Hamlet, 5–6, 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 23, 67, 68, 154
Macbeth, 67
Sharp, Cecil
and music transcription, 90, 91, 101
and phonograph recording, 79
and singers’ recall, 142
continuity, variation, and selection model, 4, 10, 28
English Folk-Song: Some Conclusions, 28
first encounter with folk song, 26
manuscripts, 125
Shenstone, William, 123
Shillingsburg, Peter, 133, 144, 179
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 62
Slovenia, 118
social theory of text, 21, 139, 145, 150
Solomon and Saturn I, 180
Sterne, Jonathan, 99
Stewarts of Fetterangus, 64
Stock, Brian, 56, 57, 58, 65, 67
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
textual communities, 56–59
Thackeray, William, 29
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 178–179
Thompson, Stith, 17
Todorov, Tzvetan, 8
Travellers, 52, 60, 63, 64, 155
Treitler, Leo, 5, 6, 18, 19, 23, 84–87
tune families, 17
type/version paradigm, xv–xvi, 17, 19, 119, 120, 137
Universal Songster, The, 4, 22
Valéry, Paul, 152
Veal, Sidney, 108
versions, of literary works, 120
Waldensians, 57
Walton, Izaak
Warner, Richard, 105
Weddynge of Sir Gawen and Dame Ragnell, The, 41
White, Enos, 2–3, 4, 11, 15, 22
Whitefield, George, 57
William of Malmesbury, 38, 39, 40, 43
Williams, Ralph Vaughan, 2, 22, 173
Williams, Raymond, 34
writing, ‘branchable’ nature of, 98, 103
Zola, Émile, 152
Zumthor, Paul, 67