Author: Francis Barton Gummere
Publisher:
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 388

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Author: Allen Forte
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691043999
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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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
ISBN: 1107161525
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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The first book to explore the ballad's history and emotional appeal, surveying seventy years of the genre in modern America.

Author: Francis Barton Gummere
Publisher:
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Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: George Wharton Edwards
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252

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Author: Joseph Harris
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674060456
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334

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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: David C. Fowler
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Author: George Morey Miller
Publisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Author: George Morey Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Johannes Christoffer Hagemann Reinhardt Steenstrup
Publisher:
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Category : Ballads, Danish
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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