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MEDIEVAL BALLADS

MEDIEVAL BALLADS. Origin of Name. From French dance songs – i.e. “ ballares ” or ballet. Description. A Ballad is a song that tells a story in verse. Because ballads were sung, their content was often changed.

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MEDIEVAL BALLADS

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  1. MEDIEVAL BALLADS

  2. Origin of Name • From French dance songs – i.e. “ballares” or ballet

  3. Description • A Ballad is a song that tells a story in verse. • Because ballads were sung, their content was often changed. • Minstrels/troubadours traveled from town to town singing ballads for food, money, lodging. • Ballads were the poetry of the people, so they were often sensational.

  4. Common Subjects • Magic (ghosts, witchcraft, fairies) • Border conflict (English vs. Scottish) • Love, domestic tragedy • Children • Outlaws (Robin Hood)

  5. CHARACTERISTICS • Narrative, tells a story • Set to music • Depends heavily on dialogue (two people) • Plot involves domestic tragedy or the supernatural • No editorializing; impersonal tone • Refrain and repetition • Set rhyme and meter/syllable pattern (quatrain/4) • Figurative language (“make my bed soon” = death) • Third person, objective narration

  6. CHARACTERISTICS • No mention of setting • Hurried plot • No character development • Sometimes use question and answer format/call and response • Focus on one event

  7. Ballads, Old and New http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOzFrZyZi5A Barbara Allen http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBe_vH04ffk Get Up and Bar The Door http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMR55HoeSG4 Lord Randall http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXNNVUuIDgc “If I Ever Fall In Love Again” -Shai http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” -Gordon Lightfoot

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