"The Maid" and "The Hangman": Myth and Tradition in a Popular Ballad, Volume 21 |
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... refrain sung with thirteen of these texts . ( The refrain " O , the broom of Cauthery Knowes , " attached to A10 , has already been mentioned as one that , probably together with its tune , was popu- larly attached to more than one ...
... refrain sung with thirteen of these texts . ( The refrain " O , the broom of Cauthery Knowes , " attached to A10 , has already been mentioned as one that , probably together with its tune , was popu- larly attached to more than one ...
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... refrain in " briery bush . " 725 Both refrains associated with texts in this group , then , are demonstrably secon- dary and the association contrived . In spite of Cecil Sharp's belief that " there is no feature that is more ...
... refrain in " briery bush . " 725 Both refrains associated with texts in this group , then , are demonstrably secon- dary and the association contrived . In spite of Cecil Sharp's belief that " there is no feature that is more ...
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... refrain was " undoubtedly very old " and " of the mystic class . " The refrain has been recovered with Child 155 " Little Sir Hugh " as well as with " The Gallows Tree , " a phenomenon that , it was sug- gested in chapter iv , might be ...
... refrain was " undoubtedly very old " and " of the mystic class . " The refrain has been recovered with Child 155 " Little Sir Hugh " as well as with " The Gallows Tree , " a phenomenon that , it was sug- gested in chapter iv , might be ...
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