Chapter Seven

Track 25: Recording of earliest extant broadside ballad of “The Lady and the Blackamoor (“A Lamentable Ballad of the Tragical End of a Gallant Lord and a Vertuous Lady, with the Untimely End of their Two Children, Wickedly Performed by a Heathenish Blackamoor their Servant, the Like Never Heard of Before”), c. 1658-1664, Euing 197, EBBA 31955; sung to the tune “The Ladies Fall,” by Erik Bell, also available at ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ballad/31955/recording.

      25-blackamoor-31955-ladysfall-major - EBBA 31955

Track 26: MIDI of transcription of recording of the second stanza of the Euing edition of “The Lady and the Blackamoor.”

      26-blackamoor-31955-st.2-ladiesfall-midi - Blackamoor MIDI

Track 27: Recording of the first stanza of “A memorable Song, on the unhappy Hunting in Chevy-Chase, betweene Earle Piercy of England, and / Earle Dowglas of Scotland,” 1634-1658, Huntington 288220, EBBA 32440, to the tune of “Chevy Chase” by Erik Bell.

      27-chevychase-32440-st1-chevychase-major - EBBA 32440, Chevy Chase

Track 28: Recording of the same first stanza of the “Chevy Chase” ballad, “A memorable Song, on the unhappy Hunting in Chevy-Chase, betweene Earle Piercy of England, and / Earle Dowglas of Scotland,” c. 1634-1658, Huntington 288220, EBBA 32440, to the tune of “The Ladies Fall,” by Erik Bell.

      28-chevychase-32440-st1-ladysfall - EBBA 32440, The Ladies Fall

Track 29: MIDI of transcription of the first stanza of recording of the first stanza of “A memorable Song, on the unhappy Hunting in Chevy-Chase, betweene Earle Piercy of England, and / Earle Dowglas of Scotland,” c. 1634-1658, Huntington 288220, EBBA 32440, to the tune of “Chevy Chase.”

      29-chevychase-32440-st1-chevychase-midi - EBBA 32440 MIDI

Track 30: Recording of first stanza of “The Lady Isabella’s Tragedy; Or, the Step-Mothers Cruelty. Being a Relation of a most Lamentable and Cruel Murder, committed on the Body of the Lady Isabella, the only Daughter of a Noble Duke, occasioned by the means of a Step-mother and the Master-Cook, who were both adjudged to suffer a Cruel death, for committing the Horrid Act,” 1672-1696, Euing 182, EBBA 31937, to the tune of “The Ladies Fall,” sung by Erik Bell.

      30-isabella-31937-st1-ladysfall-major - EBBA 31937

Track 31: Recording of stanza 8 of “Isabella’s Tragedy” to the tune of “The Ladies Fall,” sung by Erik Bell.

      31-isabella-31937-st8-ladysfall-major - Isabella's Tragedy, Stanza 8

Track 32: Recording of stanza 13 of “Isabella’s Tragedy” to the tune of “The Ladies Fall,” sung by Erik Bell.

      32-isabella-31937-st13-ladysfall-major - Isabella's Tragedy, Stanza 13

Track 33: MIDI of transcription of recording of stanzas 1, 8, and 13 to the tune of “The Ladies Fall.”

      33-isabella-31937-st8-13-ladysfall-midi - Isabella's Tragedy MIDI

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