A Book of Old English Ballads
Author : George Wharton Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 1896
Category : Ballads
ISBN :
A Book of Old Ballads
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 29,10 MB
Release : 1934
Category : Ballads
ISBN :
Book Description
American Ballads and Folk Songs
Author : John A. Lomax
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 048631992X
Book Description
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.
Unprepared To Die
Author : Paul Slade
Publisher : Soundcheck Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 099294807X
Book Description
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.
The Book of Ballads
Author : Charles Vess
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,46 MB
Release : 2006-03-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780765312150
Book Description
Now in trade paperback, a unique collection of ballads, folktales, and magical sagas, retold in graphic-novel form by an all-star cast of modern fantasists
The New Penguin Book of English Folk Songs
Author : Julia Bishop
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 34,64 MB
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : Music
ISBN : 0141964324
Book Description
One of the Spectator's Books of the Year 2012 'Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu to you ladies of Spain For we've received orders for to sail for old England But we hope in a short while to see you again' One of the great English popular art forms, the folk song can be painful, satirical, erotic, dramatic, rueful or funny. They have thrived when sung on a whim to a handful of friends in a pub; they have bewitched generations of English composers who have set them for everything from solo violin to full orchestra; they are sung in concerts, festivals, weddings, funerals and with nobody to hear but the singer. This magical new collection brings together all the classic folk songs as well as many lesser-known discoveries, complete with music and annotations on their original sources and meaning. Published in cooperation with the English Folk Dance and Song Society, it is a worthy successor to Ralph Vaughan Williams and A.L.Lloyd's original Penguin Book of English Folk Songs. 'Her keen eye did glitter like the bright stars by night The robe she was wearing was costly and white Her bare neck was shaded with her long raven hair And they called her pretty Susan, the pride of Kildare' In association with EFDSS, the English Folk Dance and Song Society
...Ballads and Ballad Poetry
Author : Edward Everett Hale (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 20,83 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Ballads, English
ISBN :
Book Description
Ballad
Author : Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher : North Star Editions, Inc.
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 32,70 MB
Release : 2010-09-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0738721972
Book Description
James Morgan’s gift for music has attracted Nuala, a soul-snatching faerie who feeds on the creative energies of exceptional humans until they die. While collaborating on a musical composition, James and Nuala unexpectedly fall in love. When James realizes that Nuala is being hunted, he plunges into a soul-scorching battle with the Faerie Queen.
The Ballad of Laurel Springs
Author : Janet Beard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 35,81 MB
Release : 2023-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1982151579
Book Description
"A provocative new novel by the nationally bestelling author of THE ATOMIC CITY GIRLS, about nine generations of one family in Eastern Tennessee whose women, in eerie echoes of the notorious Appalachian murder ballads made famous by singers, over more than a century, have been traumatized by acts of violence"--
The Ballad of Hattie Taylor
Author : Susan Andersen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,24 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593197860
Book Description
A daring young woman pushes back against societal constraints in a feminist, coming-of-age Western romance from New York Times bestselling author Susan Andersen. In the small, bustling town of Mattawa, Oregon, the turn of the century offers a new kind of frontier for women: a vast and exciting range of possibilities--to a point. It's a time for change, and no one is more eager to embrace new paths than free-spirited outsider Hattie Taylor. If only she could embrace Jake Murdock too. Jake can't remember a time he was so confused. Hattie is off-limits. The provoking spitfire is under his mother's protection--his protection--and he has always belonged to another. But now, with the passing of his wife, Jake feels something shift between them. Frustratingly aware of Hattie as a woman, he struggles with new feelings, new questions, new desires. But when a desperate decision born of good intentions turns out to have ugly repercussions, Hattie confronts a cruel reality she can no longer ignore: the truth of where women really stand and the actions men take to keep them there. To navigate her new world of tainted justice and privileged order Hattie will draw on the strength of the women around her--and Jake will learn what it truly means to support the woman he loves.
