The Ballad as Song
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The Ballad as Song

Bertrand H. Bronson

  1. 336 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

The Ballad as Song

Bertrand H. Bronson

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Preface
  5. Contents
  6. “Edward, Edward. A Scottish Ballad” and a Footnote
  7. Samuel Hall’s Family Tree
  8. The Interdependence of Ballad Tunes and Texts
  9. Mrs. Brown and the Ballad
  10. Folk-Song and the Modes
  11. Habits of the Ballad as Song
  12. On the Union of Words and Music in the “Child” Ballads
  13. Two Reviews: George Pullen Jackson and the Shaped-Note Spirituals
  14. The Morphology of the Ballad Tunes: Variation, Selection, and Continuity
  15. About the Most Favorite British Ballads
  16. Toward the Comparative Analysis of British-American Folk-Tunes
  17. Folk-Song and Live Recordings
  18. Two Reviews: Frank Brown and North Carolina Folklore
  19. “All This for a Song?”
  20. Folk-Song in the United States, 1910—1960: Reflections from a Student’s Corner
  21. Fractures in Tradition among the “Child” Ballads
  22. Cecil Sharp and Folk-Song
  23. “Of Ballads, Songs, and Snatches”
  24. Index