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Rutger Deterd Oude Weme wrote:
>It's for my girlfriend I joint this list because she was looking for old
>music. In this case she is looking for the original composer of the song
>"Scarborough fair" as known by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. Possibly the
>song is an old english ballad.
You are correct. It is found in Sir Francis Child's collection of English
ballads and is hence known in the folk trade as a "Child ballad." Child's
collection had words only, no tunes. There is an important collection of
tunes of the ballads, which in fact has more than one version of many of
the ballads, including "Scarborough fair." It is:
The traditional tunes of the Child ballads; with their texts, according to
the extant records of Great Britain and America by Bertrand Harris Bronson.
(4v.) Princeton, N. J., Princeton University Press, 1959-72.
Chris Bonds
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