Author: Roy PalmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Book of British Ballads
Author: Roy PalmerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
A Book of Old English Ballads
Author: Hamilton Wright MabiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A Book of British Ballads
Author: R. B. JohnsonThe Oxford Book of Ballads
Author: Arthur Quiller-CouchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 916
Book Description
The Book of British Ballads. Edited by S.C. Hall.
Author: Samuel Carter HallThe Book of British Ballads. (The Book of British Ballads. Second Series.) Edited by S. C. H.
Author: Samuel Carter HallA Book of British Ballads
Author: Reginald Brimley JohnsonPublisher: Dutton Adult
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Cross-section of every variety of ballad, from those inspired by folklore, legend, history or current event, to those made in conscious imitation by poets from Goldsmith to Masefield.
The English Traditional Ballad
Author: David AtkinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351544802
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Ballads are a fascinating subject of study not least because of their endless variety. It is quite remarkable that ballads taken down or recorded from singers separated by centuries in time and by hundreds of kilometres in distance, should be both different and yet recognizably the same. In The English Traditional Ballad, David Atkinson examines the ways in which the body of ballads known in England make reference both to ballads from elsewhere and to other English folk songs. The book outlines current theoretical directions in ballad scholarship: structuralism, traditional referentiality, genre and context, print and oral transmission, and the theory of tradition and revival. These are combined to offer readers a method of approaching the central issue in ballad studies - the creation of meaning(s) out of ballad texts. Atkinson focuses on some of the most interesting problems in ballad studies: the 'wit-combat' in versions of The Unquiet Grave; variable perspectives in comic ballads about marriage; incest as a ballad theme; problems of feminine motivation in ballads like The Outlandish Knight and The Broomfield Hill; murder ballads and murder in other instances of early popular literature. Through discussion of these issues and themes in ballad texts, the book outlines a way of tracing tradition(s) in English balladry, while recognizing that ballad tradition is far from being simply chronological and linear.
The Book of British Ballads
Author: Samuel Carter HallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballad, English
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Author: Julia BishopPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141964324
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012 'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we've received orders for to sail for old England But we hope in a short while to see you again' One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub; they have bewitched generations of English composers who have set them for everything from solo violin to full orchestra; they are sung in concerts, festivals, weddings, funerals and with nobody to hear but the singer. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning. Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L.Lloyd's original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 'Her keen eye did glitter like the bright stars by night The robe she was wearing was costly and white Her bare neck was shaded with her long raven hair And they called her pretty Susan, the pride of Kildare' In association with EFDSS, the English Folk Dance and Song Society