A teaching edition and guide to the online Pepys Ballad Archive (PBA), conceived as the first phase and companion to EBBA (the online English Broadside Ballad Archive (http://ebba.english.ucsb.edu)). The PBA is the product of a team affiliated with the Early Modern Center of the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara with considerable aid from the Department of Music. A selection of representative ballads from each of Pepys's categories, along with essays explaining some of the features that characterize the categories by which he gathered the ballads, and two CD recordings of the first two stanzas of each selected ballad. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Includes 155 selected ballads, presented in modern fonts, but laid out as they were originally, including original artwork (woodcuts). The recordings are of mostly unaccompanied single singers (men and women).
Series:
Medieval and renaissance texts and studies ; v. 421 MRTS texts for teaching ; v. 6
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.