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... folk - airs appeared in large numbers , some- times with words , sometimes as dance tunes . It became a fashionable pastime among ladies and gentlemen to write new words to old folk - airs - the words were generally English and ...
... folk - airs appeared in large numbers , some- times with words , sometimes as dance tunes . It became a fashionable pastime among ladies and gentlemen to write new words to old folk - airs - the words were generally English and ...
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... folk - songs and folk - tales to- gether with a modernization of the late fifteenth - century poem Wallace which dealt rather naïvely with the life of Sir William Wallace , the Scottish hero in the War of Inde- pendence against Edward I ...
... folk - songs and folk - tales to- gether with a modernization of the late fifteenth - century poem Wallace which dealt rather naïvely with the life of Sir William Wallace , the Scottish hero in the War of Inde- pendence against Edward I ...
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... folk tradition , he would have been execrated by later scholars for spoiling original material with false improve- ments . His work as a song writer was a unique blend of the antiquarian and the creative . He took the whole body of ...
... folk tradition , he would have been execrated by later scholars for spoiling original material with false improve- ments . His work as a song writer was a unique blend of the antiquarian and the creative . He took the whole body of ...
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