Poetic Origins and the Ballad

American Folk-Lore aristocratic authorship ballad style ballad texts balladry carols century Child ballads Child pieces Child type Chippewa choral cited collection communal composed composition Cowboy Songs currency dance songs dance-song Danish dialogue E. K. Chambers earliest early English and Scottish English ballads epic evidence example F. J. Child Faroe festal folk-song genuine History of English improvisation incremental repetition individual Joe Stecher Journal of American Judas King Estmere lady later literary Lomax Lord Randal lyric type lyric-epic manuscript material medieval medieval dance melody Middle Ages minstrel modern narrative songs negro Old World older oral origin peasant play-party poem poetic popular song preserved primitive poetry primitive song Professor Gummere recited refrain religious Robin Hood romance Scottish ballads Scottish Popular Ballads singers singing Sioux Music Sir Patrick Spens situation songs stanzas story sung tell testimony Thomas Rymer tion traditional ballads tribes unlettered usage verse words