A Century Of Ballads 1810-1910, Their Composers & Singers

With Some Introductory Chapters On Old Ballads And Ballad Makers - online book.

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	CONTENTS
	PART I
	CHAPTER PAGE I. The Evolution of the Ballad 3 II. Ballads of the Seventeenth Century 22 III. Ballad Operas and Eighteenth-century Ballads 34 IV. Concerts and Concert Singers of the Period 55 PART II I. Some Early Nineteenth-century Ballads 71 II. Bishop and "Home, Sweet Home" 88 III. Benedict and Balfe 99 IV. Sterndale Bennett, Hullah, and Hatton 115 V. The Songs of Henry Russell 129 VI. The Ballad Fifty Years Ago 138 VII. Sullivan and "The Lost Chord" 149 VIII. Some Composers of Sullivan's Day 160 IX. An Harmonious Quartet 187 X. The St. James's Hall Ballad Concerts 212 XI. Plunket Greene and Stanford's Irish Songs 237 XII. Songs of To-day and Yesterday 248 XIII. Some Modern Ballads and their Composers 270 XIV. The Song-Cycle and the Short Song 289 XV. Some Present-day Women Composers 305 XVI. The Light Humour Ballad 327 General Index 331 Index to Ballads and Songs 339