"The Maid" and "The Hangman": Myth and Tradition in a Popular Ballad, Volume 21 |
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... Settlement School , Harlan County , Kentucky , 1916 ( reported by Wells , Ballad Tree , pp . 115-116 ) . B43 . Clara Callahan , North Carolina , n.d. ( reported by Scarborough , Song Catcher , pp . 197–198 ) . B44 . Mary Ann Short ...
... Settlement School , Harlan County , Kentucky , 1916 ( reported by Wells , Ballad Tree , pp . 115-116 ) . B43 . Clara Callahan , North Carolina , n.d. ( reported by Scarborough , Song Catcher , pp . 197–198 ) . B44 . Mary Ann Short ...
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... Settlement School version was as elaborate as its text shaping ; the second stanza is truncated melod- ically as well as textually , and the refrain stanza changes its rhythm as well as its melody . B36 and B43 adhere closely to the ...
... Settlement School version was as elaborate as its text shaping ; the second stanza is truncated melod- ically as well as textually , and the refrain stanza changes its rhythm as well as its melody . B36 and B43 adhere closely to the ...
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... Settlement School text and transmitted only in print . B52 is also related to the Settlement School tradition , both rhythmically and textually . It retains the initial rhythmic pattern JJ and the refrain lines " You've broke the heart ...
... Settlement School text and transmitted only in print . B52 is also related to the Settlement School tradition , both rhythmically and textually . It retains the initial rhythmic pattern JJ and the refrain lines " You've broke the heart ...
Contents
The Tunes | 66 |
The Symbols | 96 |
The Tradition in Europe | 108 |
Copyright | |
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Alan Lomax Alcestis American b1 Dala b1,2 Dala Eal b3 Cal b1 Ba3 b3 Cal ballad text balladry Bertrand Bronson Bertrand H Broadwood Bronson Cal b1,2 Dala cante-fable century Charon Child Ballad County Dala Eal Dala Eal b3 daughter Eal b3 Eal b3 Fa2b English Fa2a Fa2b father Folk Song Folklore Folksongs Gallows Tree German Gf1b Hal Gfla Hal Gglb gold and fee gold and silver gold to set golden ball Gypsies hangman hold your hand I(VI Irish Julius Krohn LC-AFS Leadbelly Little Sir Hugh London Losgekaufte Maid Freed melodic mid-cadence Moses Gaster mother motif n.d. reported narrative North Carolina oikotypal oral tradition pay my fee prickly bush ransom recorded Reed Smith refrain reported as learned reported by Davis rhyme Sabine Baring-Gould Scottish set me free Settlement School slack the rope Songs stanza textual Traditional Tunes variants Verb victim Virginia Volkslieder yonder