The ballad tree : a study of British and American ballads, their folklore, verse and music, together with sixty traditional ballads and their tunes
Study of British and American ballads, their folklore, verse, and music, with sixty traditional ballads and their tunes
Songs
ix, 370 pages, [17] pages of plates : illustrations, music, facsimiles ; 24 cm
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Introduction
Robin Hood ballads
Historical ballads
Border raid ballads
Romantic ballads
Reflections of the supernatural in ballads
The ballad and the nursery
Christian elements in the ballads
Theories of origin
Minstrel and broadside ballads
The English ballad revival in the eighteenth century and Bishop Percy
The Scottish revival and Sir Walter Scott
Francis James Child
Cecil Sharp
Some characteristics of folk tunes
American folk songs and singers
The literary ballad
Appendix : Examples of literary ballads
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