Oates for Tanger
Mon, 28 Apr 2008
Gentlemen prefer Brunetes When I published a facsimile of volume three of Ballards
Brunetes ou petits airs tendre the first question several people asked was "Are you going to do volumes I and II?"
to which I replied that they were unfortunately more or less unobtainable. They were published in 1703 & 1704 and
are much, much rarer than the third volume published in 1711. Well to my considerable delight and contrary to all expectations I have managed to find copies Taken as a whole these three volumes are an extremely important collection of late 17th and early eighteenth
popular french song and I will be publishing facsimile copies of the entire collection hopefully by this autumn. As many people noticed the quality of the scans of volume three
that I have already published leave something to be desired. Happily I now have access to equipment
that should enable me to produce high definition images. I plan to take this opportunity and re-photograph
the third volume as well. So I hope soon to be able to publish a full high definition facsimile of all three volumes of Ballards Brunetes!
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