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Memory in Oral Traditions: The Cognitive Psychology of Epic, Ballads, and Counting-Out Rhymes

Book by David C. Rubin; Oxford University Press, 1995

Subjects:

Ballads--North Carolina--History And Criticism, Counting-Out Rhymes--History And Criticism, Epic Literature--History And Criticism, Memory, Oral Tradition

Collections: Education, Psychology, Literature, Entire Library

...learned. The five traditional ballads were chosen from the popular-ballad set of Wallace and Rubin 1991...similar story line. To provide ballads of approximately equal length...story were selected from each ballad. A tape was made by two professional...singers familiar with the ballad tradition. During each learning session...
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The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures

Book by Philip E. Bennett, Richard Firth Green; Ropopi, 2004

Subjects:

Ballads, English--History And Criticism, Ballads--Europe--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...would use the term 'ballads' when discussing Russian...the bylina and the ballad as sub-genres within...and western Slavonic traditions, some of which are unique to their own traditions, can be summarised as follows. In the tradition of the southern Slavs...respect the Scandinavian ballad - like many of the English or Scottish Child ballads - differs from songs...
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The Ballad of Tradition

Book by Gordon Hall Gerould; Clarendon Press, 1932

Subjects:

Ballads, English--History and criticism, Ballads--History and criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Defined in simplest terms, the ballad is a folk-song that tells...What we have come to call a ballad is always a narrative, is...to distinguish them from ballads, provided we always keep...is any song a traditional ballad, whatever its origin and...or transformed by popular tradition. In other words, an imitation...
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A Treasury of Southern Folklore: Stories, Ballads, Traditions, and Folkways of the People of the South

Book by B. A. Botkin; Crown Publishers, 1949

Subjects:

Folklore--Southern States, Southern States--Social Life And Customs

Collections: Entire Library

...1 is an ancient riddling ballad, sung with great purity of...undoubtedly one of the most ancient ballads in the entire British ballad tradition. It was discovered far back...Kyle Davis Jr., Traditional Ballads of Virginia Cambridge, 1929...
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The Critics & the Ballad

Book by Macedward E. Leach, Tristram P. Coffin; Southern Illinois University Press, 1961

Subjects:

Ballads, English--United States--History and criticism, Folk songs, American--History and criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...number of variants of the ballad that were available to him...fortuitous resemblance that a rich ballad tradition through the vagaries of oral...as original or old in the ballads tradition. To him, that...original. But now for the ballad makers misreading of the Vulgate...

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Journal Articles on: ballad tradition

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The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures

Journal article by David Atkinson; Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9, 2006

Subjects:

Books--Book reviews, The Singer and the Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures (Book)--Book reviews

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...Scribe: European Ballad Traditions and European Ballad Cultures...in the development of the ballad. This is necessarily played...commitment to the purity of oral tradition. On the other hand, the...Beatons account of Greek ballads and the (indirect) evidence...Roger Wright on Spanish ballads in a changing world; and...describes a late medieval Flemish ballad, Fier Margrietken, and...
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The Feminine Voice in the Romancero's Modern Oral Tradition: Gender Differences in the Recitation of the Ballad la Bastarda Y El Segador

Journal article by Beatriz Gomez Acuna; Folklore, Vol. 113, 2002

Subjects:

Ballads--Analysis, Oral tradition--Research, Romance fiction--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Romance literature, Seduction--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Sex--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Women poets--Influence, Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...romanceros modern oral tradition: gender differences in the recitation of the ballad La Bastarda y el Segador...perceptions expressed in the ballads. Critics often state...its antiquity. The ballad is widely disseminated in the modern oral tradition throughout the romancero...context in which this ballad was performed was the...was one of the few ballads men sang regularly...
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The Merry Tanner, the Mayor's Feast, and the King's Mistress: Thomas Heywood's 1 Edward IV and the Ballad Tradition

Journal article by Nora L. Corrigan; Medieval & Renaissance Drama in England, Vol. 22, 2009

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Edward IV and the Ballad Tradition by Nora L. Corrigan...notes to the Roxburghe ballad collection, suggests that the ballad tradition constitutes...have been drawn from ballads or other aspects of...overtly evokes the ballad tradition is the scene before...the disguised-king ballads, but Anne Barton argues...Shakespeare draws on popular ballad motifs in this episode...
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Competing with Ballads (and Whisky?): The Construction, Celebration, and Commercialization of North-East Scottish Identity

Journal article by Ian Russell; Folk Music Journal, Vol. 9, 2007

Subjects:

Ballads--Social aspects, Folk music--Forecasts and trends, Folk music--Social aspects, Group identity--Analysis, Social identity--Analysis

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Competing with Ballads (and Whisky...wedded in the bothy ballad tradition of North-East Scotland...King of the Bothy Ballad Singers, Behind the...Henderson, notes to Bothy Ballads: Music from the North-East, Scottish Tradition 1, 12-inch LP...Hamish Henderson, The Ballad, the Folk and the...
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Annunciation, Birth, and Stasis: An Interpretation of a Faroese Marian/ Lorica Ballad

Journal article by Thomas D. Hill; Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 77, 2005

Subjects:

Ballads--Criticism and interpretation, Ballads--History, Ballads--Religious aspects, Faroe Islands--History, Jesus Christ--Portrayals, Literature, Medieval--Criticism and interpretation, Literature, Medieval--Religious aspects, Medieval literature--Criticism and interpretation, Medieval literature--Religious aspects, Medieval music--Criticism and interpretation, Medieval music--Religious aspects, Religion--Portrayals

Collections: Religious Studies, Literature, Entire Library

...was lost even when ballad singing still flourished...Some of the Faroese ballads are apparently independent...remained in living oral tradition. (1) Some, at least, of the religious ballads of the Faroese tradition are comparably archaic...medieval religious traditions despite the fact that...century. (2) One such ballad concerns the annunciation...

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Magazine Articles on: ballad tradition

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The Ballad in the Street: Listening for the Muffled Strains of a National Culture

Magazine article by Alan Trachtenberg; American Scholar, Vol. 76, Winter 2007

Subjects:

Ballads--Social aspects, Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas (Book)--Excerpts

Collections: Entire Library

The Ballad in the Street: Listening...aestheticism of "the genteel tradition." But Rourke dissociated...the American cultural tradition was impoverished...stand for communal traditions and patterns of behavior...milk in the pan; the ballad in the street; the...cannot but jolt the tradition in which the name America...
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Ballads of a Nation

Magazine article by Christopher Harvie; History Today, Vol. 49, September 1999

Subjects:

Scotland--Politics and government, Scottish National Party--Political activity, United Kingdom--Politics and government

Collections: History, Entire Library

...he would rather write the ballads of a nation than its laws...a mixture of the oral tradition and pseudo-epic, convinced...to be expressed through the ballads and the `ideal types of the...Glasgow; the Scots medical tradition produced Britains first psychoanalysts...pivot of the poem was The Ballad of the General Strike, in...
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Ballad of the Green Man: Richard Hayman Traces the Changing Significance of the Green Man, a Term Coined in the 1930s for a Medieval Image of a Face Sprouting Foliage, the Meaning of Which Has Transformed Itself across the Centuries

Magazine article by Richard Hayman; History Today, Vol. 60, April 2010

Subjects:

Art objects--History, Icons--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

Ballad of the Green Man: Richard Hayman Traces...Both rituals follow a well-established tradition of a local community coming together to...almost universal and immemorial tradition (1949). Art historians such as M...
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Fairy Tales Old Wives and Printing Presses: Ruth Bottigheimer Argues That the Survival of Our Best-Loved Fairy Tales Owes More to Popular Print Tradition Than to Fireside Story-Telling Passed Down through the Generations

Magazine article by Ruth Bottigheimer; History Today, Vol. 54, January 2004

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Fairy tales--Analysis, Fairy tales--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Fairy Tales Owes More to Popular Print Tradition Than to Fireside Story-Telling Passed...further nourished the European fairy-tale tradition by creating fifty stories, which brought...modern Italian and northern European tradition. Delivered before fellow literati in...
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In the Tradition

Magazine article by Scott Nygaard; Acoustic Guitar, Vol. 19, October 2008

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In the Tradition by Scott Nygaard the guitar was a late...fluency with the subtleties of the Irish tradition displayed by the best fiddlers, flutists...ornaments naturally, from growing up in the tradition. How would you suggest a guitarist who...

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Newspaper Articles on: ballad tradition

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'Ballad' No Ode to Utopia; Usually Absorbed Day-Lewis Detached from New Character

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 31, 2005

Subjects:

Day-Lewis, Daniel

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...to be around her." "The Ballad," which opens tomorrow in...looking at earth houses, a tradition that goes all the way back...said. The subtext of "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" - the thing...premiere screening of "The Ballad of Jack and Rose" in New York...
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I'm a Sucker for a Love Song; from Romantic Ballads to Rants about Betrayal - in an Exclusive Interview for Xfm, Sir Paul McCartney Talks through His New Album Track by Track. John Aizlewood, Our Pop Critic, Introduces Each One

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 6, 2005

Subjects:

McCartney, Paul

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Sucker for a Love Song; from Romantic Ballads to Rants about Betrayal - in an Exclusive...piece of cocktail whimsy in a McCartney tradition that stretches back to Ob-La-Di...This Never Happened Before A piano ballad for weddings and hotel lobbies, with...her wedding. Anyway Another big piano ballad, but superior and more dignified. It...
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"Still Not Ready for the Ballad of Rosy Cheeks

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), August 26, 2011

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

"Still Not Ready for the Ballad of Rosy Cheeks. Byline: Hannah Jones IUSED to fancy myself as...lights warbling. Proper singing. Rumour has it that, in the best tradition of Abba songs, I could sing before I could talk. I sang. All...
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Brooding Balladeer Swaps Trademark Bleakness for the Feelgood Approach; Anguished Torch Songs and Macabre Murder Ballads. Think You Know Christopher Rees? Think Again. Gavin Allen Finds a Much Happier Camper Behind the Release of His Fourth Album

Newspaper article; Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales), May 4, 2009

Subjects:

Recording industry, Sound recording industry, Trademarks

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Torch Songs and Macabre Murder Ballads. Think You Know Christopher...his musics focus on murder ballads for the past three years or...new album are still in that tradition, theres no mistaking the...History Of American Murder Ballads" - his new album is a more...now moved out of his murder ballad phase and into some surprising...
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La Rondinella Makes Musical 'Dreams' Come True: Quartet's Unique Concert to Include Medieval Songs, American Ballads

Newspaper article by Mark Longaker; The Washington Times, December 15, 1996

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...medieval songs, American ballads by Mark Longaker Thirty years...sword dances are a living tradition, there is no prescribed...absorbing the sword dancing tradition from the residents of Bluemont...area every December. The tradition of sword dancing probably...this Institute of Musical Traditions series concert will be lullabies...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: ballad tradition

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Song

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Foster had such national appeal as to become incorporated into the folk tradition. Charles Ives brought a striking originality to the modern American art song. See ballad ; carol ; chantey ; hymn ; plainsong ; rock music ; and spiritual . See...
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Opera

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Philippe Rameau followed the tradition established by Lully, but...Opera inaugurated the form of ballad opera that satirized Italian...the Eighteenth Century The ballad opera eventually led to the...choral pieces. In the romantic tradition, he turned to medieval lore...
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Middle English Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...English culture. But the native tradition survived, although little...13th cent. continued in the tradition of Anglo-Saxon prose homiletic...there was no French prose tradition was very important to the...cent., from which time the ballad also dates. The Fourteenth...
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Gaelic Literature

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...imagery, color, and detail. The Fenian tradition, which became prominent in the late...characteristic form of this cycle is the ballad . Its ideal hero is Finn, the Irish...priests, became guardians of the native tradition, and, after the coming of the Norman...
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Wordsworth, William

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Together the two poets wrote Lyrical Ballads (1798), in which they sought to use...lives. A second edition of the Lyrical Ballads (1800), which included a critical...original thinker who created a new poetic tradition. Bibliography See his poetical works...Betrayal (1974); F. Wilson, The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth (2009...

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