Author : John A. Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 048631992X
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.
Author : William Allingham
Publisher :
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,71 MB
Release : 1877
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
A manuscript revision of the 1st edition of William Allingham's Songs, ballads and stories. It is inscribed on the preliminary pages with the author's autograph corrections, markings, and revisions, and with additional text and notes written on the blank interleaves.
Author : Paul Slade
Publisher : Soundcheck Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 23,53 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 099294807X
The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.
Author : William Allingham
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 32,18 MB
Release : 2011
Category :
ISBN :
Author : William Allingham
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781010565444
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Francis James Child
Publisher :
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
Author : Jerry Silverman
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 45,35 MB
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 1610650182
A comprehensive and historically significant song collection, this massive volume captures the hopes and tragedy of the Civil War era. Songs are grouped into the following categories: The Union, The Confederacy, Lincoln, Universal Sentiments, Soldiers Songs, Battles, Negro Spirituals & Abolitionist Songs, The Lighter Side, and Post Bellum. A special feature of this text is the inclusion of authentic formal and informal portraits, plus depicting military encampment of the aftermath of the battle. Arranged for voice with piano accompaniment and guitar chords.
Author : John Boyle O'Reilly
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 2024-04-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385400872
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author : Hugh Shields
Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN :
Narrative Singing in Ireland is a definitive account of Irish traditions of singing as a storytelling art. Of interest to scholars and general readers, this book examines the varied associations of song and story in Ireland and why people sing as they do. It ranges from ballads in English, through Irish Heroic songs - of Fionn mac Cumhaill, Deirdre, the Big Fool and others, sung from earliest times to the present - to ballads of European tradition with the lyric songs of Irish. Written in a lively and entertaining style, it includes chapters on: Irish narrative singing in general, Lays, Ballads - old and new, the lyric songs of Irish and their stories, Singers and songmakers, Traditional singing and the media and Narrative singing today.
Author : John Avery Lomax
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780486282763
Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.
