IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

Folk Music Journal is a peer-reviewed journal of research into all aspects of traditional song, music, dance, and drama. It is the journal of the Vaughan Williams Memorial Library, England's national ...

This is an excellent debut for Dreyer. On it, he shows both a strong sense of composition and arrangement, but it is his bass playing that always stands out. He has incorporated many influences in his ...

Vol. 47, No. 2/3, Ballads and Songs in the Eighteenth Century (SUMMER/FALL 2006), pp. 179-202 (24 pages) The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation fosters theoretical and interpretive research ...

“Power ballad.” The phrase sounds like an oxymoron. Rather, it’s shorthand for the type of song that has, over time, deftly avoided definition. To wit, an anthology titled “The Very Best of Power ...

WHEN in 1908 a check for $500 came from Harvard University for my first year as a Sheldon Fellow, I was the happiest person in the world. Never before at one time had I owned so much money, money that ...

As creepy as the term sounds, we've likely all heard, and even sung along with, a murder ballad. For centuries, murder ballads have served as a way for people to memorialize shocking or titillating ...