The ballad tree : a study of British and American ballads, their folklore, verse and music, together with sixty traditional ballads and their tunes /
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New York :
Ronald Press Co.,
[1950]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Robin Hood ballads
- Historical ballads
- Border raid ballads
- Romantic ballads
- Reflections of the supernatural in ballads
- The ballad and the nursery
- Christian elements in the ballads
- Theories of origin
- Minstrel and broadside ballads
- The English ballad revival in the eighteenth century and Bishop Percy
- The Scottish revival and Sir Walter Scott
- Francis James Child
- Cecil Sharp
- Some characteristics of folk tunes
- American folk songs and singers
- The literary ballad
- Appendix : Examples of literary ballads.