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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
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ballad. 1. Properly a song to be danced to (It.
ballare, to dance) but from the 16th cent. or earlier the term has been applied to anything singable, simple, popular in style, and for solo v.
2. The word ‘ballad’ was in the 19th cent. also attached to the simpler type of ‘drawing-room song’—sometimes called ‘Shop Ballad’, possibly to distinguish it from those hawked by the ballad-seller on broadsheets. Hence the Eng. ‘Ballad Concerts’ inaugurated by the mus. publisher, John Boosey, in 1867.
3. Self-contained narrative song, such as Loewe's
Edward or Schubert's
Erlkönig. Also applied to certain narrative operatic arias, e.g. Senta's ballad in Wagner's
Der fliegende Holländer.
4. Term applied in jazz to sentimental song.
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Ballads into books: the legacies of Francis James Child.
Magazine article from: Ethnologies; 1/1/2001; 700+ words
; ...International Ballad Conference. The core matter of Ballads into Books consists...Scottish Popular Ballads (ESPB). A second...the pre-Child ballad data bank, Mary...category of essays in Ballads into Books reflects...understandably dominates ballad scholarship...
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The Ballad in Scottish History
Magazine article from: Folk Music Journal; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...collection of essays on ballads and Scottish history...celebrate one of the great ballad collectors', namely...Making History from Ballad Texts', Charles Duffin...in admitting that the ballads cannot be read simply...historical 'truths' in the ballad texts we are more often...
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The English Traditional Ballad: Theory, Method, and Practice.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Notes; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...discography, index of ballads and songs, index...expressed by scholars of ballad studies was that...During this time ballad scholars were generally...Comparativists looked at the ballads and their variants...the meanings of the ballads. David Atkinson...English Traditional Ballad: ...
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Ballad Gold & Silver Ltd. and Auterra Ventures Inc.: Ballad to Explore Rabbit North Copper/Gold Project Near Afton & Highland Valley Copper Mines.
Business Wire; 1/28/2004; 700+ words
; ...BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2004 Ballad Gold & Silver (TSX VENTURE:BGS...VENTURE:AUW) are pleased to announce Ballad's agreement to participate in the Rabbit...are expected to be released next week. Ballad is now mobilizing exploration crews to...
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Ballad Gold & Silver Ltd.: Peruvian Silver-Copper-Zinc Properties to be Acquired
Newspaper article from: CCNMatthews Newswire; 3/8/2006; 700+ words
; ...CCNMatthews - March 8, 2006) - Ballad Gold & Silver Ltd. (TSX VENTURE:BGS...acquisition and exploration program in Peru. Ballad is pleased to announce it has entered...mineralization has been identified and sampled. Ballad has the right, following a 90 day due...
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Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon: The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism
Magazine article from: Folk Music Journal; 1/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...range of authors, of the ballad as a popular form, and...transformations of the ballad that appear in their...topic is not so much ballads themselves as the use...conducted over the body of ballads. In truth these negotiations...tartly remarks, the ballad revival led not to the...
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Américo Paredes: Ballad Scholar (Phillips Barry Lecture, 2004)
Magazine article from: Journal of American Folklore; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; The ballad scholarship of Amrico Paredes (1915...With His Pistol in His Hand": A Border Ballad and its Hero, has been overlooked as a...overlooked as a central contribution to ballad scholarship. Possibly more than other...
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The English Traditional Ballad: Theory, method, and practice
Magazine article from: Folk Music Journal; 1/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...fact, an English ballad tradition? Many...Professor Child's ballads are, of course...similar groups of ballads, although there...the pattern of ballad singing in England...there is an English ballad tradition. 'Ballads and songs have...
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Various: The Radio Ballads: The Song of Steel.(The Radio Ballads: The Enemy That Lives Within; The Radio Ballads: The Horn of the Hunter; The Radio Ballads: Swings and Roundabouts; The Radio Ballads: Thirty Years of Conflict; The Radio Ballads: The Ballad of the Big Ships; The Songs of the Radio Ballads)(Sound recording review)
Magazine article from: Sing Out!; 9/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...Gott Discs 050 VARIOUS The Radio Ballads: Thirty Years of Conflict Gott Discs 051 VARIOUS The Radio Ballads: The Ballad of the Big Ships Gott Discs 052 VARIOUS The Songs of the Radio Ballads Gott Discs 053 What a fantastic...
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'Judas': the first English ballad?
Magazine article from: Medium Aevum; 3/22/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...are very few religious ballads extant in any form. A ballad, in the definition of...Scotland. At that time the ballads were being transmitted orally; even ballad singers who were literate...distinguished between the ballads they had learned by ear...
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Ballads
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
BALLADS BALLADS. A ballad is a short narrative set to song. A folk ballad is generally...the most popular of indigenous types are the occupational ballads, the bad-man ballad, the murder ballad, and the vulgar or bawdy ballad. As...
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ballad
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...19th-century ballad scholarship. More...and Scottish folk ballads, dating from the...wrote their own ballads. The Literary Ballad The literary ballad...Bronson, The Ballad as Song (1969...Oxford Book of Ballads (1982); A...
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ballads
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
ballads. Defining a ballad is difficult, since it is an...movement. But by this time ballads were of great variety—...deplored the vulgarization of ballads when he remarked in 1802 that a ballad was ‘a mean and trifling...
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Ballad
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature
Ballad, narrative poem of...literary influences. Folk ballads frequently deal with...Lomax's American Ballads and Folk Songs (1934...adaptations of the ballad form are Longfellow...Hay's Pike County Ballads, Whittier's Skipper...
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Bab Ballads
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Bab Ballads, a collection of humorous ballads by W. S. Gilbert , first published in Fun , 1866–71. They appeared in volume form as Bab Ballads (1869); More Bab Ballads (1873); Fifty Bab Ballads (1877).
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