Author: John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Ballads of New England
Author: John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Author: Julia BishopPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141964324
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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
Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England, Volume 4
Author: Helen Hartness FlandersPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512801720
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Ballads offer one of the most fascinating and revealing records of humankind—our deepest feelings and most profound experiences, our laughter and joys, our troubles and sorrows. There is no battle, no romance, no escapade, no tragedy recorded in song which is not rich both in historical significance and in contemporary experience. A ballad is a link with past generations, traditions, and the basic character traits of a people, a region, or a country. The associations formed, the recollections stirred make the study of this form of music a rewarding experience. The first printed collection of ballads was made in 1723-25 and entitled simply Old Ballads. That it met with warm approval is indicated by the fact that a third edition was published as soon as 1727. Since the publication of that first collection, interest in the ballad and demand for ballad texts have grown constantly. During the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, several hundred collections were published. Many of these collections have become classics in the field of balladry. With the publication of this fourth and final volume of the Ancient Ballads series, the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection took its place with the other classics in the field. Volume IV contains child ballads 250-295 with thirty-six versions of "The Sweet Trinity," or "The Golden Vanity," alone. This is representative of the completeness of the series and reflects the years of scholarship that went into the collecting, interviewing, scoring, and editing of the collection. With analyses by Tristram P. Coffin and musical annotations by Bruno Netti, Helen Hartness Flanders's work constitutes an invaluable source for the student of the ballad, as well as those interested in the related studies of musicology, literature, history, social sciences, and ethnology. Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England provides endless opportunity for both scholarly study and sheer fascination.
New England History in Ballads
Author: Edward Everett HalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American ballads and songs
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Ancient Ballads Traditionally Sung in New England
Author: Helen Hartness FlandersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Singing the News
Author: Jenni HydePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351372998
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Singing the News is the first study to concentrate on sixteenth-century ballads, when there was no regular and reliable alternative means of finding out news and information. It is a highly readable and accessible account of the important role played by ballads in spreading news during a period when discussing politics was treason. The study provides a new analytical framework for understanding the ways in which balladeers spread their messages to the masses. Jenni Hyde focusses on the melody as much as the words, showing how music helped to shape the understanding of texts. Music provided an emotive soundtrack to words which helped to shape sixteenth-century understandings of gendered monarchy, heresy and the social cohesion of the commonwealth. By combining the study of ballads in manuscript and print with sources such as letters and state records, the study shows that when their topics edged too close to sedition, balladeers were more than capable of using sophisticated methods to disguise their true meaning in order to safeguard themselves and their audience, and above all to ensure that their news hit home.
Home Ballads
Author: Abby AllinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Folk Songs of Old New England
Author: Eloise Hubbard LinscottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
New England History in Ballads
Author: Edward Everett HalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American ballads and songs
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Folk Songs of Old New England
Author: Eloise Hubbard LinscottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description