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Anglo-American folksong style
- Title
- Anglo-American folksong style [by] Roger D. Abrahams [and] George Foss.
- Author
- Abrahams, Roger D.
- Publication
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall [1968]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Foss, George
- Description
- ix, 242 pages music; 24 cm
- Subject
- Universidad Sergio Arboleda
- Folk songs, English > United States > History and criticism
- Folk songs, English > Great Britain > History and criticism
- Folk songs, English > Discography
- Folk music > United States > History and criticism
- Folk music > Great Britain > History and criticism
- Folk music
- Folk songs, English
- Folksong
- Musikethnologie
- Volkslied
- Volksliederen
- Engels
- Chansons américaines
- Chansons anglaises
- Musique populaire américaine
- Musique populaire anglaise
- Great Britain
- United States
- Etats-Unis
- Genre/Form
- discographies.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Discographies
- Discographies.
- Note
- Includes unacc. melodies.
- Bibliography (note)
- "References": p. 195-198. "Selected bibliography of regional collections": p. 225-230. Discography: p. 231-232.
- Contents
- Introduction -- The art of folksong. Folk, popular, and sophisticated art ; Public and private expression -- The cycle of oral transmission and composition. Oral change ; Degenerative causes of change ; Rationalization and conventionalization ; Forgetting and emotion core ; Forgetting and negative tropisms ; Universationalization and localization ; Conventional elements ; Composition and recomposition of folksongs ; The question of literacy and record -- From ballad to lyric. Story-songs ; Changing styles in the ballad ; Ballad and oral change -- The traditional shapes of content. Verse forms ; Form and repetition ; Form and formula -- Style and the organization of meaning. Story-songs--the ballad ; Blues ballads, coronachs, last goodnights ; Dialog songs ; Lyric songs ; Legendary songs ; Other song types -- The content of the songs : Love and death. Once more, the Child ballads ; Father's opposition to lovers ; Separation of lovers by their own devices ; American songs of death ; Men away from women : the occupational ballads -- The metrical aspect of folksong. Rhythm and meter ; Meter in traditional verse and song ; Meter in traditional music ; The interdependence of text and tune ; Metrical rigidity ; Story-song ; The influence of instruments ; Motion songs -- The nature of folk tunes. What is a folk tune? ; Melody ; Common characteristics in folk tunes ; Scale ; Melodic progression ; Contour ; Variety of contour -- The musical form of folksong. Musical stability in oral tradition ; Same song, different tunes ; Same tune, different songs -- Afterword -- Sources of songs -- Appendix I : [Collecting procedures] -- Appendix II : [Transcribing folksong] -- Appendix III : [Analyzing and classifying folksong].
- LCCN
- 68011288
- OCLC
- ocm00436551
- 436551
- SCSB-14690903
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library