Volume 1

Contents [abridged] I. On Songs and Singing [a traditional chapter in editions of the time] 1. Songs as the heritage of the whole nation, reflecting the whole human life 2. Songs sung in spring and summer, their different singing types 3. Singing while at different kinds of work 4. Singing at festivities or working jointly. Singing contests of two parties 5. Singing on different specific occasions II. The human life. Family's everyday life and relationships in a family [the main part in Barons' classification] 1. Early age. Birth, baptising, upbringing, teaching. 2. Family members, their relations 3. Orphans + APPENDIX 1