BALLAD: GOLDEN VANITYSimone S. Ferraz

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INTRODUCTION

Folk music is music that has become part of a people's heritage through oral tradition. A true folk song has no known author. Because of its oral tradition folk music is fluid.

Folk songs are important both musically and historically as they define some part of a people's experience and become a part of a people's culture.

Traditional music

BALLAD

A ballad is a short narrative poem which is written to be sung and has a simple but dramatic theme. Ballads can be of love, death, the supernatural or even a combination of the three. Many ballads also contain a moral which is expressed (most often) in the final stanza.

BALLAD X FOLK SONG

Ballads were longer and related to a story, usually one based in the past and carried down by oral tradition. Ballads could be either dramatic or humorous, dealing with the topics of the time.

Folk songs, on the other hand, were shorter, lyrical and personal. 

FEATURES

Ballads are rhythmic saga of past happenings, which may be of heroic, satirical, romantic, political, catastrophic (which is related to in third person).

To be sung Moral sense

STRUCTURE

Repetition* Dialogue The ballad stanza is made of four lines; Most often have abrupt openings, brief

descriptions and economical, although frequent, dialogue.

MOMENT OF READING...

GOLDEN VANITY

What makes it in a Ballad? What story does this ballad tell? What happens with the little cabin boy? Do we have dialogues in this ballad? How does this ballad involve the

reader? Do you see irony in this ballad?

VANITY

LONESOME SEA

Various historical ballad sources list the lowland seas as in Holland, Virginia or Scotland.

Galley:

SUPERTITION?

A woman on board the ship Ships with women names

SHIP AS SHE

Website: marinebuzz.com

“10 reasons to classify Ship as Feminine”

Looks beautiful Costly to mantain Grammatical gender

CHALLLENGE

TURKISH REVELEY?

REPETITION

WHERE: Words Group of words Ideas lines

HOW: Anaphore Epistrophe Ploce

SIR WALTER RALEIGH (1552-1618)

VARIATIONS

This very popular Child ballad is also known as The Sweet Trinity, The Golden Willow Tree, The Turkish Revelry and several other titles. The title of the oldest surviving version (about 1635) was Sir Walter Raleigh Sailing In The Lowlands (Shewing how the famous Ship called the Sweet Trinity was taken by a false Gally & how it was again restored by the craft of a little Sea-boy, who sunk the Gally).

There are many variations with different outcomes for the brave cabin boy. In most variants, the captain refuses to take him back aboard the ship, let alone reward him; some versions have the boy sinking his captain's ship or threatening to sink it, but more often, he drowns (sometimes after saying he would sink the ship if it weren't for the crew). In other versions he is rescued by the crew, but dies on the deck.

VARIATIONS

The name of the ship The of the captain in the ballad The boy’s destiny Numbers of holes in the ship The enemy’s origin

REFERENCES

http://www.contemplator.com/history/epedia.html#shanty

http://www.poemofquotes.com/articles/types-of-ballads.php

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/lit_term.html

http://www.failedsuccess.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/superstition_sea_fishermen/

http://www.marinebuzz.com/2007/10/06/10-reasons-to-classify-ship-as-feminine/