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| 005 | 19990604113142.0 | |
| 008 | 700820s1968 njug b 000 0 eng | |
| 010 | $a 68011288 /MN/r913 | |
| 035 | $a(OCoLC)00436551 | |
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| 035 | $a(WU)2895204-uwmadisondb | |
| 035 | $a(EXLNZ-01UWI_NETWORK)999725590902121 | |
| 040 | $aDLC$beng$cDLC$dGZM | |
| 049 | $aGZZS | |
| 050 | $aML3553$b.A27 | |
| 100 | 1_ | $aAbrahams, Roger D. |
| 245 | 10 | $aAnglo-American folksong style /$cRoger D. Abrahams [and] George Foss. |
| 264 | _1 | $aEnglewood Cliffs, N.J. :$bPrentice-Hall,$c[1968] |
| 300 | $aix, 242 pages :$bmusic. ;$c24 cm | |
| 336 | $atext$btxt$2rdacontent | |
| 337 | $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia | |
| 338 | $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier | |
| 500 | $aIncludes unacc. melodies. | |
| 504 | $a"References": pages 195-198. "Selected bibliography of regional collections": pages 225-230. Discography: pages 231-232. | |
| 505 | 0_ | $aIntroduction -- The art of folksong. Folk, popular, and sophisticated art ; Public and private expression -- The cycle of oral transmission and composition. Oral change ; Degenerative causes of change ; Rationalization and conventionalization ; Forgetting and emotion core ; Forgetting and negative tropisms ; Universationalization and localization ; Conventional elements ; Composition and recomposition of folksongs ; The question of literacy and record -- From ballad to lyric. Story-songs ; Changing styles in the ballad ; Ballad and oral change -- The traditional shapes of content. Verse forms ; Form and repetition ; Form and formula -- Style and the organization of meaning. Story-songs--the ballad ; Blues ballads, coronachs, last goodnights ; Dialog songs ; Lyric songs ; Legendary songs ; Other song types -- The content of the songs : Love and death. Once more, the Child ballads ; Father's opposition to lovers ; Separation of lovers by their own devices ; American songs of death ; Men away from women : the occupational ballads -- The metrical aspect of folksong. Rhythm and meter ; Meter in traditional verse and song ; Meter in traditional music ; The interdependence of text and tune ; Metrical rigidity ; Story-song ; The influence of instruments ; Motion songs -- The nature of folk tunes. What is a folk tune? ; Melody ; Common characteristics in folk tunes ; Scale ; Melodic progression ; Contour ; Variety of contour -- The musical form of folksong. Musical stability in oral tradition ; Same song, different tunes ; Same tune, different songs -- Afterword -- Sources of songs -- Appendix I : [Collecting procedures] -- Appendix II : [Transcribing folksong] -- Appendix III : [Analyzing and classifying folksong] |
| 650 | _0 | $aFolk songs, English$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism. |
| 650 | _0 | $aFolk songs, English$zGreat Britain$xHistory and criticism. |
| 650 | _0 | $aFolk songs, English$xDiscography. |
| 650 | _0 | $aFolk music$zUnited States$xHistory and criticism. |
| 650 | _0 | $aFolk music$zGreat Britain$xHistory and criticism. |
| 700 | 1_ | $aFoss, George,$eeditor. |
| 997 | $aMARCIVE | |