The Ballad Tree: A Study of British and American Ballads, Their Folklore, Verse and Music, Together with Sixty Traditional Ballads and Their Tunes

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Ronald Press Company, 1950 - 370 pagina's
Study of British and American ballads, their folklore, verse, and music, with sixty traditional ballads and their tunes.

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INTRODUCTION
3
ROBIN HOOD BALLADS
11
HISTORICAL BALLADS
41
BORDER RAID BALLADS
55
ROMANTIC BALLADS
77
REFLECTIONS OF THE SUPERNatural in BallaDS
124
THE BALLAD AND THE NURSERY
158
CHRISTIAN ELements in the Ballads
176
FRANCIS JAMES CHILD
250
CECIL SHARP
260
SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF FOLK TUNES
275
AMERICAN FOLK SONGS AND SINGERS
285
THE LITERARY BALLAD
309
APPENDIXEXAMPLES OF LITERARY BALLADS
327
BIBLIOGRAPHY
353
INDEX OF BALLAD AND SONG TITLES
361

THEORIES OF ORIGIN
193
MINSTREL AND BROADSIDE BALLADS
206
THE ENGLISH BALLAD REVIVAL IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY AND BISHOP PERCY
223
THE SCOTTISH REVIVAL AND SIR WALTER SCOTT
236
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
365
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS
367
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