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Anglo-Celtic-American folk music tradition
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Origins traceable to England, Scotland, and Ierland, storytelling convergence of poetry and music. 3 different types.
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Iambic Foot
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A unit made up of 1 unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable. Example: Ta-da
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Ballad Meter (common meter)
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Stanzas of four lines each in which eight-syllable lines alternate with six-syllable lines
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Strophic Form
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A form in which successive stanzas are set to the same music.
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Stanza
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A unit of song text or poetry usually consisting of at least 4 lines of verse unified by a regular rhyme scheme and meter.
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Imported Ballad
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Little changed from its old-country forms. Example: "Barbara Allen"
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Native Ballad
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Still recognizable from its old-country versions but has adopted some trappings of is new cultural surroundings. Example: "Gypsy Davy"
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Naturalized Ballad
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New stories indigenous to the United States. Example: "John Hardy"
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Oral Tradition
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A tradition that does not sing or play strictly from written music
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Emotional Core
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The essence of the story that is passed through almost all versions of the ballads
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Pentatonic Scale
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A scale of 5 notes rather than 7 notes.
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Broadside
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A single-sheet, cheaply printed version of the words only
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Songster
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A small collection of such texts, also cheaply printed for popular sale
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"rose and brier" motif
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An idea that after death the plants symbolize a lovers' knot
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Fiddle
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An instrument used to provide music to dance to such as in hoedowns.
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