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"The Ballad of Poker Alice" Songs Inspired by Literature, Chapter Two: Larry Kenneth Potts: Nothing Like It in the World: Stephen Ambrose: Relates the story of "Poker" Alice Ivers [51] "The Ballad of Skip Wiley" Barometer Soup: Jimmy Buffett: Tourist Season: Carl Hiaasen: A song about the character Skip Wiley from Hiaasen's 1986 novel. [52 ...
Maria Wiik, Ballad (1898) A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of the popular poetry and song of Great Britain and Ireland from the Late Middle Ages until the 19th century. They were widely used across Europe, and later in Australia, North Africa, North America and South America.
A modern example of ballad metre is the theme song to Gilligan's Island, infamously making it possible to sing any other ballad to that tune. The first two lines actually contain anapaests in place of iambs. This is an example of a ballad metre which is metrically less strict than common metre.
George Malcolm Laws (January 4, 1919 – August 1, 1994) was a scholar of traditional British and American folk song. [1] [2]He was best known for his collection of traditional ballads "American Balladry from British Broadsides", published in 1957 by the American Folklore Society.
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"Ten Blake Songs" are poems from Blake's "Songs of Innocence and of Experience" and "Auguries of Innocence", set to music by Ralph Vaughan Williams in 1957. "Tyger" is both the name of an album by Tangerine Dream, which is based on Blake's poetry, and the title of a song on this album based on the poem of the same name.
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It is listed as Child ballad number 81 and number 52 in the Roud Folk Song Index. [1] [2] This song exists in many textual variants and has several variant names. The song dates to at least 1613, and under the title Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard is one of the Child ballads collected by 19th-century American scholar Francis James Child.