Author: Edward Everett Hale (Jr.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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
Robin Hood
Author: Joseph RitsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Robin Hood (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The Book of British Ballads. (The Book of British Ballads. Second Series.) Edited by S. C. H.
Author: Samuel Carter HallThe Bird of Time
Author: Sarojini NaiduSongs for Little People
Author: Norman GalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Penguin Book of Ballads
Author: Geoffrey GrigsonPublisher: Penguin Classics
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
American Ballads and Folk Songs
Author: John A. LomaxPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048631992X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 719
Book Description
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.
Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800
Author: Patricia FumertonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317176375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Bringing together diverse scholars to represent the full historical breadth of the early modern period, and a wide range of disciplines (literature, women's studies, folklore, ethnomusicology, art history, media studies, the history of science, and history), Ballads and Broadsides in Britain, 1500-1800 offers an unprecedented perspective on the development and cultural practice of popular print in early modern Britain. Fifteen essays explore major issues raised by the broadside genre in the early modern period: the different methods by which contemporaries of the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries collected and "appreciated" such early modern popular forms; the preoccupation in the early modern period with news and especially monsters; the concomitant fascination with and representation of crime and the criminal subject; the technology and formal features of early modern broadside print together with its bearing on gender, class, and authority/authorship; and, finally, the nationalizing and internationalizing of popular culture through crossings against (and sometimes with) cultural Others in ballads and broadsides of the time.
Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America
Author: David AtkinsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317049209
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
In recent years, the assumption that traditional songs originated from a primarily oral tradition has been challenged by research into ’street literature’ - that is, the cheap printed broadsides and chapbooks that poured from the presses of jobbing printers from the late sixteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth. Not only are some traditional singers known to have learned songs from printed sources, but most of the songs were composed by professional writers and reached the populace in printed form. Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America engages with the long-running debate over the origin of traditional songs by examining street literature’s interaction with, and influence on, oral traditions.
Mad Love, Murder and Mayhem
Author: Joshua HamptonPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781717495693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Includes a plot summary, brief history, and list of selected recordings for each ballad! At the end of the 19th century, Harvard professor Francis James Child published a collection of 305 traditional English and Scottish ballads that would influence folk tradition and popular culture for decades to come. Presented here are those Child Ballads that have become most widely known around the world. While the songs themselves may be centuries old, the stories they tell are timeless. So go forth now and enjoy these tales of kings, queens, serving men and maidens, spirits, demons and guardian angels; of redemption, betrayal, avengement and loss, and, of course... MAD LOVE, MURDER & MAYHEM.