Research Catalog

Title

• Folk songs of French Canada / by Marius Barbeau and Edward Sapir.

Author

Barbeau, Marius, 1883-1969

Publication

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1925.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Oliver Baty Cunningham Memorial Publication Fund
• Sapir, Edward, 1884-1939

Description

xxii p., 216 p. of music; 25 cm.

Subject

• Chansons françaises > Canada
• Folk music > Canada
• Folk songs, French > Canada
• French-Canadians > Music

Genre/Form

Music

Note

• Unacc. melodies; French texts with English translations.
• "Mr. Barbeau is responsible for the French texts, the general introduction and the shorter explanations prefacing the songs, and for the musical transcriptions; Mr. Sapir, for the English translations of the songs and a revision of the explanatory matter."--Pref.
• "The present volume is the fifth work published by the Yale University Press on the Oliver Baty Cunningham Memorial Publication Fund."

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The prince of Orange -- Prince Eugene -- The three poisoned roses -- The wicked knight -- The prisoner and the gaoler's daughter -- The princess and the hangman -- White as the snow -- The tragic home-coming -- The return of the soldier husband -- The penitent and the drunkard -- The passion of Jesus Christ -- Our Lord in beggar's guise -- The miser-woman and the crucifix -- The dumb shepherdess -- The maiden sold to the devil -- The miracle of the new-born child -- The blasphemer chastised -- The King of Spain's daughter -- I'm not quite of peasantry -- If papa knew -- A-rolling my bowl -- At Saint-Malo -- Seven years at sea -- The brunette and the brigand -- At the well, oh! -- The repentant shepherdess -- The ransomed petticoat -- When the wine whirls -- The little gray mouse -- The song of lies -- The curfew -- I dressed me all in feathers gay -- The trades -- The butterfly the candle seeks -- The swalllow, messenger of love -- Lovers' farewell -- This lovely turtle-dove -- The heart of my well-beloved -- I will not hurry -- Marry me, mother dear! -- My faithless lover is forgetting.

LCCN

^^^25008559^

OCLC

1127031

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library