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284 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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Ballad origins and ballad definitions. The scholar and the ballad singer / Joseph W. Hendron ; The English and Scottish popular ballads of Francis J. Child / Thelma G. James ; The ballad and communal poetry / Francis B. Gummere ; Ballad and Dance / George Mcknight ; Scottish ballads : Their evidence of authorship and origin / Alexander Keith -- The meter and music of the ballad. The part of the folk singer in the making of folk balladry / Phillips Barry ; The interdependence of ballad tunes and texts / Bertrand H. Bronson ; The principal melodic families of folk song / Samuel P. Bayard ; Professionalism and amateurism in the study of folk music / Charles L. Seeger ; The meter of the popular ballad / George R. Stewart, Jr. -- The ballad and its literary tradition. Ballad source study : Child ballad No. 4 as exemplar / Holger Olof Nygard ; Lambkin : A study in evolution / Anne G. Gilchrist ; Some effects of scribal and typographical error on oral tradition / W. Edson Richmond ; The Scottish ballads / John Speirs ; Mary Hamilton and the Anglo-American ballad as an art form / Tristram P. Coffin. |
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Songs, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Songs, English. |
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United States. |
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Ballads, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Ballads, English. |
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Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism.
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Folk music. |
| Added Author |
Coffin, Tristram Potter, 1922-2012.
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