Author Una McIlvenna brings the execution ballad to life in Singing the News of Death, uncovering the relationship between punishment and music throughout Europe from 1500-1900 with an unprecedented breadth of study and ambition.

Percy's Reliques is the seminal collection of historical and lyrical ballads that defined English literature at the end of the 18th century. This study examines his working methods.

Wilhelmus en de anderen. Nederlandse liedjes 1500-1700 is bedoeld voor literatuuronderwijs en CKV-1 in de bovenbouw van HAVO en VWO. Het materiaal past in het studiehuis en is tevens geschikt voor groepsonderwijs.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W.D. Snodgrass's SELECTED TRANSLATIONS offers us the imaginative power and the playful wisdom of poems, folk songs, fables, street songs, drinking lyrics, ballads, and art songs gleaned from more than 500 years ...

In an illuminating discussion, Jim Samson combines history and analysis to provide the reader with a comprehensive picture of these popular piano works. He begins by investigating the social and musical background to Chopin's unique style.

"A provocative new novel by the nationally bestelling author of THE ATOMIC CITY GIRLS, about nine generations of one family in Eastern Tennessee whose women, in eerie echoes of the notorious Appalachian murder ballads made famous by singers ...

A novel "about nine generations of one family in Eastern Tennessee whose women, in eerie echoes of the notorious Appalachian murder ballads made famous by singers over more than a century, have been traumatized by acts of violence"--

--H. Parks. Some Negro Folk-Songs of Texas.--M. Bales. Six Negro Folk-Songs.--N. Smith. Confidences from Old Nacogdoches.--M. Emmons. The Ghosts of Lake Jackson.--B. Dobie. How Mr. Polecat Got His Scent.--K.O'Connor. De Pot-Song.

Was widerfuhr dem Tannhäuser im Venusberg?

280 ... songs ... Ballads, hobo songs, spirituals, steamboat, railroad and lumberjack songs, close harmony ditties, colonial songs, love songs ...