Auld Lang Syne : - Grant, M. J. (Open Book Publishers, 2021)
Intro – Contents – Introduction – Note on the Text – Acknowledgements – 1. Elements of a Theory of Song – 1.1 The Social Functions of Song – 1.2 The Songs Folk Sing: Some Historical Evidence – 1.3 Implied and Inherited Significance – 1.4 Auld Lang Syne as an Object of Research: Some Issues – The Tunes – The Words – The Traditions – 2. Auld Lang Syne: Context and Genesis – 2.1 Being a Short Discourse on Song in the Eighteenth Century – 2.2 Auld Lang Syne before Burns – FIRST PART – SECOND PART – 2.3 The Jacobite Songs – 3. Burns's Song – 3.1 Mrs Dunlop's Song – 3.2 Burns's Text – 3.3 Burns's Tune – 3.4 What Thomson Did – 3.5 From M1 to M2 – 3.6 The Legacy of the Old Songs and Two Contemporaries of the New – 4. Auld Lang Syne in the Early Nineteenth Century – 4.1
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