Lynn Wollstadt wrote:
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> Bruce Olson wrote:
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> >
> > I can't help wondering if Motherwell actually collected any ballads
> > himself. He got Andrew Blaikie to note some tunes for him, but at least
> > some, and maybe all of his texts were brought to him by others (as per
> > F. J. Child).
> >
>
> I think it's pretty clear that he did...Bill McCarthy could certainly talk
> about this; his book on Agnes Lyle, _The Ballad Matrix_, includes a few
> quotes from Motherwell's notebook about some of his face-to-face collecting
> experience.
>
> Lynn Wollstadt
>
Thanks, I did't know about that one. For the many texts from the
extended MacQueen family which were brought to Motherwell and Andrew
Crawfurd by two brothers in the MacQueen family see Emily Lyle's "Andrew
Crawfurd's Collection of Ballads and Songs'. Dr. Lyle has managed to
identify some of Mary MacQueen's tunes in Blaikie's MSS, and some of her
songs have been reunited with her original tunes, and recorded on
Scottish Text Society cassette tape STS1. Dr. Lyle has even traced many
current descendents to Canada.
Motherwell was rather indifferent about citing his sources.
Bruce Olson
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