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The ballad as song.
- Title
- The ballad as song.
- Author
- Bronson, Bertrand Harris, 1902-1986.
- Publication
- Berkeley, University of California Press, 1969.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | ML3553 .B76 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 324 pages music; 24 cm
- Summary
- Consists of essays on the traditional tunes of the Child ballads.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Includes unacc. melodies.
- Consists of essays on the traditional tunes of the Child ballads.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- "Edward, Edward. A Scottish ballad" and a footnote -- Samuel Hall's family tree -- The interdependence of ballad tunes and texts -- Mrs. Brown and the ballad -- Folk-songs and the modes -- Habits of the ballad as song -- On the union of words and music in the "child" ballads -- Two reviews: George Pullen Jackson and the shaped-note spirituals -- The morphology of the ballad tunes -- About the most favorite British ballads -- Toward the comparative and analysis of the British-American folk-tunes -- Folk-songs and live recordings -- Two reviews: Frank Brown and North Carolina folklore -- "All this for a song?" -- Folk-songs in the United States, 1910-1960 -- Fractures in tradition among the "child" ballads -- Cecil Sharp and folk-song -- "Of ballads, songs, and snatches.
- ISBN
- 0520013999
- 9780520013995
- LCCN
- 74084045
- OCLC
- ocm00059889
- 59889
- SCSB-14690802
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library