From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #13301 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, February 23 2024 Volume 14 : Number 13301 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Leave your feedback and you could WIN! ["AARP Shopper Gift Opportunity" <] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:41:09 +0100 From: "AARP Shopper Gift Opportunity" Subject: Leave your feedback and you could WIN! Leave your feedback and you could WIN! http://provaslim.za.com/P5XKEtdGlzKZVLN7d2UJJaxUukLKPa7hgVgNlZ24jdIfdByE7Q http://provaslim.za.com/V4PBP01ifDxPxSpIETdX9STwRlBKsp06EBeC2UZ0iSuija9a0A originally composed in couplets with refrains in alternate lines. These refrains would have been sung by the dancers in time with the dance. In the 18th century, ballad operas developed as a form of English stage entertainment, partly in opposition to the Italian domination of the London operatic scene. In America a distinction is drawn between ballads that are versions of European, particularly British and Irish songs, and 'Native American ballads', developed without reference to earlier songs. A further development was the evolution of the blues ballad, which mixed the genre with Afro-American music. In the late 19th century, Danish folklorist Svend Grundtvig and Harvard professor Francis James Child attempted to record and classify all the known ballads and variants in their chosen regions. Since Child died before writing a commentary on his work it is uncertain exactly how and why he differentiated the 305 ballads printed that would be published as The English and Scottish Popular Ballads. There have been many different and contradictory attempts to classify traditional ballads by theme, but commonly identified types are the religious, supernatural, tragic, love ballads, historic, legendary and humorous. By the Victorian era, ballad had come to mean any sentimental popular song, especially so-called "royalty ballads". Some of Stephen Foster's songs exemplify this genre. By the 1920s, composers of Tin Pan Alley and Broadway used ballad to si ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #13301 ***********************************************