Download or read book Catalogue of Local Collection to be Found in the Reference Dept written by Aberdeen (Scotland). Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen written by Elizabeth Stewart and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2012-07-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist, and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including Elizabeth's mother Jean, her uncle Ned, and her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical influence. Lucy in particular became a celebrated ballad singer and in 1961 Smithsonian Folkways released a collection of her classic ballad recordings that brought the family's music and name to an international audience. Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen is a significant memoir of Scottish Traveller life, containing stories, music, and songs from this prominent Traveller family. The book is the result of a close partnership between Elizabeth Stewart and Scottish folk singer and writer Alison McMorland. It details the ancestral history of Elizabeth Stewart's family, the story of her mother, the story of her aunt, and her own life story, framing and contextualizing the music and song examples and showing how totally integrated these art forms are with daily life. It is a remarkable portrait of a Traveller family from the perspective of its matrilineal line. The narrative, spanning five generations and written in Scots, captures the rhythms and idioms of Elizabeth Stewart's speaking voice and is extraordinary from a musical, cultural, sociological, and historical point of view. The book features 145 songs, eight original piano compositions, folktale versions, rhymes and riddles, and eighty fascinating illustrations, from the family of Elizabeth, her mother Jean (1912–1962) and her aunt Lucy (1901–1982). In addition, there are notes on the songs and a series of appendices. Up Yon Wide and Lonely Glen will appeal to those interested in traditional music, folklore, and folk song—and in particular, Scottish tradition.

Download or read book Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland with Many Old and Familiar Melodies written by Robert Ford and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vagabond songs and ballads of Scotland Ed with notes by R Ford written by Robert Ford and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Vagabond Songs and Ballads of Scotland written by Robert Ford and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ballad Collection Lyric and the Canon written by Steve Newman and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-04-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to William Blake to Felicia Hemans incorporated the seemingly incongruous genre of the ballad into their work. Ballads were central to the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of culture and nationality, to Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, and to the New Criticism's most influential work, Understanding Poetry. Just how and why did the ballad appeal to so many authors from the Restoration period to the end of the Romantic era and into the twentieth century? Exploring the widespread breach of the wall that separated "high" and "low," Steve Newman challenges our current understanding of lyric poetry. He shows how the lesser lyric of the ballad changed lyric poetry as a whole and, in so doing, helped to transform literature from polite writing in general into the body of imaginative writing that became known as the English literary canon. For Newman, the ballad's early lack of prestige actually increased its value for elite authors after 1660. Easily circulated and understood, ballads moved literature away from the exclusive domain of the courtly, while keeping it rooted in English history and culture. Indeed, elite authors felt freer to rewrite and reshape the common speech of the ballad. Newman also shows how the ballad allowed authors to access the "common" speech of the public sphere, while avoiding what they perceived as the unpalatable qualities of that same public's increasingly avaricious commercial society.

Download or read book ENGLISH AND SCOTTISH POPULAR BALLADS written by HELEN CHILD SARGENT AND GEORGE LYMAN KITTREDGE and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 1194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book English and Scottish Popular Ballads written by Francis James Child and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets written by David Herschell Edwards and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Chronological Index to Historical Fiction Including Prose Fiction Plays and Poems Second and Enlarged Edition Etc written by BOSTON, Massachusetts. Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Class List for English Prose Fiction written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book One hundred modern Scottish poets afterw Modern Scottish poets With biogr and critical notices by D H Edwards written by Scottish poets and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Scottish Ballads a Comprehensive Collection of the Ballads of Scotland With Notices Historical Critical and Antiquarian written by Alexander Whitelaw and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Murder Ballad written by Lucy Ribchester and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edinburgh, 1791. Isobel Duguid and her friend Clessidro are the stars of the Edinburgh Musical Society. Clessidro sings opera and Isobel sings famously dark Scottish ballads, despite her cavalier attitude to holding a tune. They roam the streets of Edinburgh, enjoying an opulent lifestyle. One night a note arrives from the mysterious Mrs Abercorn, asking if Isobel's most notorious song, The Fiddler's Wrath, might be included in a book. It's the tale of a prima donna who died of heartbreak after her husband committed murder and was sent to the gallows. Isobel is intrigued. But Mrs. Abercorn's curiosity about the ballad is far more than a fickle interest. When Clessidro goes missing, Isobel is forced to confront her past and the truth about The Fiddler's Wrath begins to emerge. Using the geography of Edinburgh to guide us through the story, this dark tale becomes more complicated than anyone could have imagined and awakens the chilling retribution of a once buried secret.