Download or read book A choice collection of ayres for the harpsichord or spinett written by and published by . This book was released on 1700 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The British minstrel A choice collection of modern songs 2 pt in 1 vol With a general title leaf The British minstrel a choice collection of popular songs written by British minstrel and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Home amusements a choice collection of riddles charades rebuses conundrums parlour games and forfeits New edition written by Peter PUZZLEWELL (pseud.) and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Russian Folk Tales written by Alexander Nikolaevich Afanasyev and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal source for Russian folk-tales is the great collection of Afanáśev, a coeval of Rybnikov, Kirěyevski, Sakharov, Bezsonov, and others who all from about 1850 to 1870 laboriously took down from the lips of the peasants of all parts of Russia what they could of the endless store of traditional song, ballad, and folk-tale. These great collectors were actuated only by the desire for accuracy; they appended laboriously erudite notes; but they were not literary men and did not sophisticate, or improve on their material. But, before venturing on a brief account of the tales, something must be premised as to the position occupied by folk-tales in the cultural development of a people. In Pagan times, there always existed a double religion, the ceremonial worship of the gods of nature and the tribal deities,—a realm of thought in which all current philosophy and idealism entered into a set form that symbolized the State,—and also local cults and superstitions, the adoration of the spirits of streams, wells, hills, etc. To all Aryan peoples, Nature has always been alive, but never universalized, or romanticized, as in modern days; wherever you were, the brook, the wind, the knoll, the stream were all inhabited by agencies, which could be propitiated, cajoled, threatened, but, under all conditions, were personal forces, who could not be disregarded. When Christianity transformed the face of the world, it necessarily left much below the surface unaffected. The great national divinities were proscribed and submerged; some of their features reappearing in the legendary feats of the saints. The local cults continued, with this difference, that they were now condemned by the Church and became clandestine magic; or else they were adopted by the Church, and the rites and sanctuaries transferred. The memory of them subsisted; the fear of these local gods degenerated into superstition; the magic of the folk-tales becomes half-fantastic, half-conventional, belief in which is surreptitious, usual, and optional. At this stage of disorganization of local custom, folk-tales arise, and into them, transmitted as they are orally and under the ban of the Church, contaminations of all sorts creep, such as mistaken etymologies, faint memories of real history, reminiscences of lost folk-songs, Christian legend and morals, etc. The Russian people have handed down three categories of records. First of all, the Chronicles, which are very full, very accurate, and, within the limits of the temporary concepts of possibility and science, absolutely true. Secondly, the ballads or bylíny; epic songs in an ancient metre, narrating historical episodes as they occur; and also comprising a cycle of heroic romance, comparable with the chansons de geste of Charlemagne, the cycles of Finn and Cuchúlain of the Irish, and possibly with the little minor epics out of which it is supposed that some supreme Greek genius built up the artistic epics of the Iliad and the Odyssey. These bylíny may be ranked as fiction: i.e. as facts of real life (as then understood), applied to non-existent, unvouched, or legendary individuals. They are not bare records of fact, like the Chronicles; imagination enters into their scope; non-human, miraculous incidents are allowable; their content is not a matter for faith or factual record; they may be called historical fiction, which, broadly taken, corresponded to actual events, and typified the national strivings and ideals. The traditional ceremonial songs, magical incantations and popular melodies are of the same date and in the same style.
Download or read book Gospel Bells A Choice Collection of New and Popular Songs for Use in Sabbath Schools Gospel Meetings and the Home Circle written by John W. Bischoff and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Download or read book The Charmer a choice collection of songs Scots and English The second edition The editor s preface signed J G written by CHARMER and published by . This book was released on 1765 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue for of a Choice Collection of Floricultural Vegetable and Agricultural Seeds written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The complete fabulist or A choice collection of moral and entertaining fables from the best authors by G Grey written by Complete fabulist and published by . This book was released on 1732 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Choice Collection of Tyneside Songs by Wilson Corvan Mitford Midford Gilchrist With Lives of the Authors Illustrated Etc written by Joseph WILSON (Song-writer, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of a Choice Collection of Books in Various Departments of Literature Including the Entire Library Belonging to Col Brantz Mayer of Baltimore Md written by Bangs, Merwin & Co and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Satan s Invisible World Discovered Or a Choice Collection of Modern Relations Proving that There are Devils Spirits Witches and Apparitions To which is Added that Marvellous History of Major Weir and His Sister Etc written by George SINCLAIR (Professor of Philosophy in the College of Glasgow.) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Choice Collection of Books on Painting and Graphic Arts Including a Number of Works on Illuminated Manuscripts and Portrait Miniatures written by Martinus Nijhoff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clark s Orphean Warbler Containing a Choice Collection of Upwards of One Thousand Favourite Songs Duets and Glees Edited by H A D Alton written by Hawkins A. D'ALTON and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jim Crow s Vagaries or Black flights of fancy containing a choice collection of nigger melodies To which is added the erratic life of Jim Crow written by Jim CROW and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Enlarged Morning Light A Choice Collection of New and Old Songs for Sunday Schools Prayer Meetings Praise Meetings Conference Meeting and the Home Circle written by Solomon W. Straub and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Download or read book Casket of Literary Treasures A Choice Collection of Poems of Rare Excellence written by Jacob Seiler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Download or read book Harmonia Sacra or a choice Collection of Psalm and Hymn Tunes c With an introduction to psalmody several new tunes never before published by Mr Thos Butts ms annotations by Arthur H Mann written by and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
