This article presents a comparative analysis of creative solutions within the genre of ballades for piano and orchestra in works created by local and foreign composers in the first half of the 20th ...century, such as L. Różycki, G. Tailleferre, B. Britten, N. Medtner, and I. Shamo. It has been determined that most works are characterised by purposeful inspiration which influenced their style. The basis of the genre lies in the synthesis of various features of the folk ballad and the poetic piano concerto. The first component combines epic song features, parts of folk songs or their arrangements, and declamatory melodies. The second one can be noticed in the different types of cooperation between the soloist (or soloists) and the orchestra, in the combination of features characteristic for single-part and cyclic forms (suite, rhapsody or different types of cyclic sonatas), and in the logic behind juxtaposing contrasting genre features or the figurative transformation of monothematic variants.
This article introduces the special issue and outlines the field of Gothic folklore and fairy tale, demonstrating how the emergence of the Gothic in the late eighteenth century was closely imbricated ...with the surge of folklore and fairy tale collecting in Britain and Europe. The article then begins a theorisation of Gothic folklore and fairy tale through the concept of negative nostalgia, in which gothic and folk narratives borrow from each other, presenting archaic elements in a dark, violent, monstrous mode that abjects and disavows features that conflict with modern progressivism, but remain nostalgically desired.
The paper discusses poetics of the traditional ballad, reflecting family relations and conflicts in Ukrainian and British folklore. This comparative research has its base on the classification of the ...Ukrainian ballad developed by O. Dei, with the involvement of the systematization of the English ballad by F. Child, is guided by the postulates of O. Dey and G. Gerould as for the plot direction of Ukrainian and British domestic-household ballads, and is focused upon the analysis of the opposition “husband – wife” on the material of Ukrainian songs from the cycle II – B: “Fidelity testing of the family and the spouse”, namely the plot type II – B-1: “the wife (the sweetheart) pretends to be dead and tests her husband (her sweetheart) and relatives” (6 versions, 117 lines), and the English work Child № 29: “The Boy and the Mantle” (1 version, 190 lines). The comparison and analysis of the named texts reveal their typology and uniqueness
Here we study the possible influence of the Spanish romancero in verse 116 of the Libro de miseria de omne, argued from the stylistic similarities and the «failed hunting» motif.
En este estudio se analiza la interpretación que el romance tradicional La noble porquera / La porquerola ofrece acerca del trabajo femenino. Partiendo de un análisis del relato desde la perspectiva ...antropológica, se examinan en primer lugar las causas y consecuencias del conflicto entre suegra y nuera, el cual funciona como motor de la trama y viene a desembocar en la imposición de unas determinadas cargas laborales sobre la nuera. Lo interesante a continuación es dar razón de por qué el romance considera esos trabajos en particular como un castigo. Para ello, se determina el valor que pudieran tener algunas circunstancias socioculturales en la transmisión del romance, como el hecho de que muchas informantes se dedicaran precisamente a las tareas de cuidado del ganado. Finalmente, se presentan unas conclusiones sobre el grado de incidencia del medio socioeconómico en los relatos orales y sobre las características de la propia perspectiva de análisis antropológico de la literatura.
Se estudia aquí Mainés, uno de los romances menos conocidos del repertorio tradicional hispánico, del que solo poseemos versiones sefardíes. El doble punto de vista adoptado, antropológico y ...literario, pone en consonancia aspectos del parentesco y el matrimonio judíos con la intriga argumental del romance, revelando aspectos decisivos en la interpretación del significado de Mainés.
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This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European ...broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the 16th to the 19th century. Viewing Czech broadside ballads from an interdisciplinary perspective, we see them as unique and regional cultural phenomena: from their production and collecting processes to their musicology, linguistics, preservation, and more. At the same time, as contributors note, when viewed within a larger perspective—extending one’s gaze to take in ballad production in bordering lands (such as Germany, Poland, and Slovakia) and as far Northwest as Britain to as far Southwest as Brazil—we discover an international phenomenon at work. Czech printed ballads, we see, participated in a thriving popular culture of broadside ballads that spoke through text, art, and song to varied interests of the masses, especially the poor, worldwide.
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