Ballads - Revision history

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	== Ballad collections online ==		== Ballad collections online ==


	* ''The English And Scottish Popular Ballads'' F.J.Child. Available in full at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=English+and+Scottish+Ballads&submit_search=Go%21		* ''The English And Scottish Popular Ballads'' F.J.Child. Available in full at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=English+and+Scottish+Ballads&submit_search=Go%21

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	== Ballad collections online ==		== Ballad collections online ==


	* ''The English And Scottish Popular Ballads'' F.J.Child. Available in full at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=English+and+Scottish+Ballads&submit_search=Go%21		* ''The English And Scottish Popular Ballads'' F.J.Child. Available in full at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=English+and+Scottish+Ballads&submit_search=Go%21

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	Child's primary interest was literary, and he included only a few tunes in his book. However in the 1950s, another American professor, [[Bertrand Harris Bronson]] of Princeton, looked for as many of the traditional tunes as he could find, on both sides of the Atlantic, and published them as ''The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads'' in four splendid volumes from 1959 to 1972.		Child's primary interest was literary, and he included only a few tunes in his book. However in the 1950s, another American professor, [[Bertrand Harris Bronson]] of Princeton, looked for as many of the traditional tunes as he could find, on both sides of the Atlantic, and published them as ''The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads'' in four splendid volumes from 1959 to 1972.

			''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads
			edited by Francis James Child''. Mustrad article by Ian Olson http://www.mustrad.org.uk/reviews/child.htm


	== Ballad collections online ==		== Ballad collections online ==

			* ''The English And Scottish Popular Ballads'' F.J.Child. Available in full at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=English+and+Scottish+Ballads&submit_search=Go%21


	*Francis James Child, ''The English And Scottish Popular Ballads'' <br />http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/child-ballads/<br />http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/		* Francis James Child, ''The English And Scottish Popular Ballads'' <br />http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/child-ballads/<br />http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/

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	== Ballad collections online ==		== Ballad collections online ==


	*Francis James Child, ''The English And Scottish Popular Ballads'' <br />http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/child-ballads/<br />http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/		*Francis James Child, ''The English And Scottish Popular Ballads'' <br />http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/child-ballads/<br />http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/


	* ''The Book of Brave Old Ballads'' (Author unknown), illustrated by John Gilbert, Ward Lock & Tyler, [187?] <br />[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25480 Project Gutenberg]		* ''The Book of Brave Old Ballads'' (Author unknown), illustrated by John Gilbert, Ward Lock & Tyler, [187?] <br />[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25480 Project Gutenberg]


			* ''The Child Ballad Database'' A huge list of sound recordings of renditions of Child Ballds. It presently stands at over 20,000 entries, including links to Youtube vids. [https://www.childballadrecordings.com/]


	== Related articles ==		== Related articles ==
	[[Broadside ballads]]		[[Broadside ballads]]

Andyturner: added links to online sources; and "see also" link to broadside ballads

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	Child's primary interest was literary, and he included only a few tunes in his book. However in the 1950s, another American professor, [[Bertrand Harris Bronson]] of Princeton, looked for as many of the traditional tunes as he could find, on both sides of the Atlantic, and published them as ''The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads'' in four splendid volumes from 1959 to 1972.		Child's primary interest was literary, and he included only a few tunes in his book. However in the 1950s, another American professor, [[Bertrand Harris Bronson]] of Princeton, looked for as many of the traditional tunes as he could find, on both sides of the Atlantic, and published them as ''The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads'' in four splendid volumes from 1959 to 1972.


			== Ballad collections online ==
			*Francis James Child, ''The English And Scottish Popular Ballads'' <br />http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/child-ballads/<br />http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/eng/child/

			* ''The Book of Brave Old Ballads'' (Author unknown), illustrated by John Gilbert, Ward Lock & Tyler, [187?] <br />[http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/25480 Project Gutenberg]


			== Related articles ==
			[[Broadside ballads]]

RodStradling at 17:51, 4 April 2007

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	The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here are some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, usually of epic rather than homely proportions, and often tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, including one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.		The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here are some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, rarely in the first person, usually of epic rather than homely proportions, and often tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, including one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.

	The definitive collection of ballads is that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child Professor F J Child], of Harvard University, who published his ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' in the 1880s. He decided that many of the the ballads he studied were in fact different versions of the same story, and eventually finished with 305 distinct stories, which were numbered, and have ever since been known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_ballad Child Ballads]. Child Number 1 is ''Riddles Wisely Expounded'', and Child Number 305 is ''The Outlaw Murray''. The commonest, and probably the best known, is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_%28song%29] ''Barbara Allen'' (Child No. 84).		The definitive collection of ballads is that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child Professor F J Child], of Harvard University, who published his ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' in the 1880s. He decided that many of the the ballads he studied were in fact different versions of the same story, and eventually finished with 305 distinct stories, which were numbered, and have ever since been known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_ballad Child Ballads]. Child Number 1 is ''Riddles Wisely Expounded'', and Child Number 305 is ''The Outlaw Murray''. The commonest, and probably the best known, is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_%28song%29] ''Barbara Allen'' (Child No. 84).

	Child's primary interest was literary, and he included only a few tunes in his book. However in the 1950s, another American professor, [[Bertrand Harris Bronson]] of Princeton, looked for as many of the traditional tunes as he could find, on both sides of the Atlantic, and published them as ''The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads'' in four splendid volumes from 1959 to 1972.		Child's primary interest was literary, and he included only a few tunes in his book. However in the 1950s, another American professor, [[Bertrand Harris Bronson]] of Princeton, looked for as many of the traditional tunes as he could find, on both sides of the Atlantic, and published them as ''The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads'' in four splendid volumes from 1959 to 1972.

PeteWood at 21:28, 1 April 2007

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	The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here are some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, usually of epic rather than homely proportions, and often tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, including one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.		The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here are some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, usually of epic rather than homely proportions, and often tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, including one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.

	The definitive collection of ballads is that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child Professor F J Child], of Harvard University, who published his ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' in the 1880s. He decided that many of the the ballads he studied were in fact different versions of the same story, and eventually finished with 305 distinct stories, which were numbered, and have ever since been known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_ballad Child Ballads]. Child Number 1 is ''Riddles Wisely Expounded'', and Child Number 305 is ''The Outlaw Murray''. The commonest, and best known is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_%28song%29] Barbara Allen (Child No. 84).		The definitive collection of ballads is that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child Professor F J Child], of Harvard University, who published his ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' in the 1880s. He decided that many of the the ballads he studied were in fact different versions of the same story, and eventually finished with 305 distinct stories, which were numbered, and have ever since been known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_ballad Child Ballads]. Child Number 1 is ''Riddles Wisely Expounded'', and Child Number 305 is ''The Outlaw Murray''. The commonest, and probably the best known, is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_%28song%29] ''Barbara Allen'' (Child No. 84).

	Child's primary interest was literary, and he included only a few tunes in his book. However in the 1950s, another American professor, [[Bertrand Harris Bronson]] of Princeton, looked for as many of the traditional tunes as he could find, on both sides of the Atlantic, and published them as ''The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads'' in four splendid volumes from 1959 to 1972.		Child's primary interest was literary, and he included only a few tunes in his book. However in the 1950s, another American professor, [[Bertrand Harris Bronson]] of Princeton, looked for as many of the traditional tunes as he could find, on both sides of the Atlantic, and published them as ''The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads'' in four splendid volumes from 1959 to 1972.

PeteWood at 21:24, 1 April 2007

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	The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here's some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, usually of epic rather than homely proportions, and ~~mostly~~ tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.		The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here are some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, usually of epic rather than homely proportions, and often tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, including one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.

	The definitive collection of ballads ~~was~~ that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child Professor F J Child], of Harvard University, who published his ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' in the 1880s. ~~The 305~~ ballads in ~~his collections~~ were numbered, and have ever since been known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_ballad Child Ballads].		The definitive collection of ballads is that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child Professor F J Child], of Harvard University, who published his ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' in the 1880s. He decided that many of the the ballads he studied were in fact different versions of the same story, and eventually finished with 305 distinct stories, which were numbered, and have ever since been known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_ballad Child Ballads]. Child Number 1 is ''Riddles Wisely Expounded'', and Child Number 305 is ''The Outlaw Murray''. The commonest, and best known is [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Allen_%28song%29] Barbara Allen (Child No. 84).

			Child's primary interest was literary, and he included only a few tunes in his book. However in the 1950s, another American professor, [[Bertrand Harris Bronson]] of Princeton, looked for as many of the traditional tunes as he could find, on both sides of the Atlantic, and published them as ''The Traditional Tunes of the Child Ballads'' in four splendid volumes from 1959 to 1972.

JohnnyAdams at 11:58, 29 March 2007

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	The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here's some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, ~~uusually~~ of epic rather than homely proportions, and mostly tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.		The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here's some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, usually of epic rather than homely proportions, and mostly tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.

	The definitive collection of ballads was that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child Professor F J Child], of Harvard University, who published his ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' in the 1880s. The 305 ballads in his collections were numbered, and have ever since been known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_ballad Child Ballads].		The definitive collection of ballads was that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child Professor F J Child], of Harvard University, who published his ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' in the 1880s. The 305 ballads in his collections were numbered, and have ever since been known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_ballad Child Ballads].

PeteWood at 10:33, 29 March 2007

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	The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here's some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, uusually of epic rather than homely proportions, and mostly tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.		The word BALLAD is used for many purposes, but for us it is a particular kind of folk song. It is not always easy or even important to distinguish a ballad from other folk songs, but here's some pointers. The ballad always tells a story, uusually of epic rather than homely proportions, and mostly tragic or even lethal for one or more of its characters. Whereas most of our folk songs come from a period between 1750 and 1850, most of the ballads are older, one or two from the 14th century. Whereas most of the folk songs were "recovered" from oral tradition in the 19th and 20th centuries, the ballads were often in written form, in the hands of scholars, learned institutions, and landed gentry. Many ballads are to be found elsewhere in Europe, especially in Scandanavia, and have received a great deal of attention from scholars over the years. Whereas ballads have always been a respectable area of academic study, this has only been true of folk song in the later part of the twentieth century.

			The definitive collection of ballads was that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_James_Child Professor F J Child], of Harvard University, who published his ''The English and Scottish Popular Ballads'' in the 1880s. The 305 ballads in his collections were numbered, and have ever since been known as [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_ballad Child Ballads].