The Popular Ballad
Author | : Francis Barton Gummere |
Publisher | : Boston : Houghton, Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Ballads |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Francis Barton Gummere |
Publisher | : Boston : Houghton, Mifflin |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Ballads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Allen Forte |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780691043999 |
In this pathbreaking book, Allen Forte uses modern analytical procedures to explore the large repertoire of beautiful love songs written during the heyday of American musical theater, the Big Bands, and Tin Pan Alley. Covering the work of such songwriters as Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, George Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Harold Arlen, he seeks to illuminate this extraordinary music indigenous to America by revealing its deeper organizational characteristics. In so doing, he aims to establish it as a unique corpus of music that deserves more intensive study and appreciation by scholars and connoisseurs in the broader fields of American popular music and jazz. Expressing much of the traditional tonality associated with European music in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the love songs of the Golden Age are shown to draw on a rich variety of elements--popular harmony, idiomatic lyric-writing, and Afro-American dance rhythms. His analyses of such songs as "Embraceable You" or "Yesterdays" in particular exemplify his ability to convey the sublime, unpretentious simplicity of this great music.
Author | : David Metzer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2017-09-21 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107161525 |
The first book to explore the ballad's history and emotional appeal, surveying seventy years of the genre in modern America.
Author | : Joseph Harris |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674060456 |
Francis James Child, compiler and editor of English and Scottish Popular Ballads, established the scholarly study of folk ballads in the English-speaking world. His successors at Harvard University, notably George Lyman Kittredge, Milman Parry, and Albert B. Lord, discovered new ways of relating ideas about sung narrative to the study of epic poetry and what has come to be called - oral literature. In this volume, 16 scholars from Europe and the United States offer original essays in the spirit of these pioneers. The topics of their studies include well-known Child ballads in their British and American forms; aspects of the oral literatures of France, Ireland, Scandinavia, medieval England, ancient Greece, and modern Egypt; and recent literary ballads and popular songs. Many of the essays evince a concern with the theoretical underpinnings of the study of folklore and literature, orality and literacy; and as a whole the volume re-establishes the European ballad in the wider context of oral literature. Among the contributors are Albert B. Lord, Bengt R. Jonsson, Gregory Nagy, David Buchan, Vesteinn Olason, and Karl Reichl.
Author | : Francis Barton Gummere |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1907 |
Genre | : Ballads |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Wharton Edwards |
Publisher | : IndyPublish.com |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1896 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David C. Fowler |
Publisher | : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : |
Author | : George Morey Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David Atkinson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1351544802 |
Ballads are a fascinating subject of study not least because of their endless variety. It is quite remarkable that ballads taken down or recorded from singers separated by centuries in time and by hundreds of kilometres in distance, should be both different and yet recognizably the same. In The English Traditional Ballad, David Atkinson examines the ways in which the body of ballads known in England make reference both to ballads from elsewhere and to other English folk songs. The book outlines current theoretical directions in ballad scholarship: structuralism, traditional referentiality, genre and context, print and oral transmission, and the theory of tradition and revival. These are combined to offer readers a method of approaching the central issue in ballad studies - the creation of meaning(s) out of ballad texts. Atkinson focuses on some of the most interesting problems in ballad studies: the 'wit-combat' in versions of The Unquiet Grave; variable perspectives in comic ballads about marriage; incest as a ballad theme; problems of feminine motivation in ballads like The Outlandish Knight and The Broomfield Hill; murder ballads and murder in other instances of early popular literature. Through discussion of these issues and themes in ballad texts, the book outlines a way of tracing tradition(s) in English balladry, while recognizing that ballad tradition is far from being simply chronological and linear.