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'How should he talk to me, the muckle uncouthie wife that I am, kenning nought but a wheen ballads and romaunts-not even able to give him the heir for whom he longs,' and she wrung her hands together, 'how can I be aught but a pain and grief to him!
Browning, a young lady, nurtured in the straitest of Tory homes, was inspired-it is hardly too strong a word-to write a book of ballads in which the heroes and the deeds of the Italian Revolution were glorified.
His ballads abound in unconventional rhythms that haunt one like those of Lanier's "Ballad of the Trees and the Master.
All I know of the rest of the evening is, that I heard the empress of my heart sing enchanted ballads in the French language, generally to the effect that, whatever was the matter, we ought always to dance, Ta ra la, Ta ra la!
Micawber was good enough to sing us (in a small, thin, flat voice, which I remembered to have considered, when I first knew her, the very table-beer of acoustics) the favourite ballads of 'The Dashing White Sergeant', and 'Little Tafflin'.
But there I always found her, the same bright housewife; often humming her Devonshire ballads when no strange foot was coming up the stairs, and blunting the sharp boy in his official closet with melody.
Remember that most early rock 'n' roll artists, including Haley and--shockingly--Elvis, had repertoires that included lots of swing-type music, or syrupy ballads or "pop" tunes, which made them transitional artists able to appeal to both generations.
" If the defense is that 1990s rap is documentary--"the authentic sound of the streets"--well, so were those verse-and-chorus ballads of the 1890s.
1990s gangsta rap is rhythmically simple and harmonically negligible, 1890s ballads are melodically simple and harmonically negligible, but the effect is the same: Even as the subject matter in each case proclaims its modernity (railroads and telephone on the one hand, guns and crack on the other), in both cases, the music underneath belies it.
In three volumes-- Ballads , Social Music , and Songs --he gathered blues, gospel hymns, murder narratives, reels and jigs, Cajun tunes, sermons, and ancient Child ballads transmuted from their British origins by centuries in the mountains and valleys of America.
The harsher critics call it "iffy ballads and lame roadhouse rock" (Jeff Giles, Newsweek ).
Many of these old ballads have survived to the present, this one, as we put it together, must at least have made current the warning Katie, bar the door! And out of the hills some hill-born singer coming north introduced it there, perhaps directly into the world of sports and sportscasting.
Supposedly the word gained popularity after Avila Camacho became president of Mexico because in ballads macho easily rhymed with Camacho.
His early published scholarship focused on ballads and ballad heroes of the Texas-Mexican border, and through this research he developed a theory about the formation of Chicano folklore.
Because these tales were not-as far as we know-collected in the Renaissance and because, like ballads and songs, they must have been subject to endless variation and mutual interference, we cannot now know the Pedro de Urdemalas who endeared himself to the folk” (218).
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