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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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
3
Tollets Painted Window
20
ROBIN HOOD BALLADS
41
HISTORICAL BALLADS
49
BORDER RAID BALLADS
55
Border Scenes
60
ROMANTIC BALLADS
77
REFLECTIONS OF THE SUPERNatural in BallADS
124
MINSTREL AND BROADSIDE BALLADS
206
THE ENGLISH BALLAD REVIVAL IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
223
A Facsimile from the Percy Folio Manuscript
228
THE SCOTTISH REVIVAL AND SIR WALTER SCOTT
236
FRANCIS JAMES CHILD
257
SOME CHARACTERISTICS OF FOLK TUNES
281
Appalachian Singers
308
THE LITERARY BALLAD
323

THE BALLAD AND THE NURSERY
175
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182
Peasant Courtly and Angelic
196
THEORIES OF ORIGIN
197
BIBLIOGRAPHY
353
INDEX OF BALLAD AND SONG TITLES
361
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS
367
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