1. Find ballad (Lord Randal) in poetry anthology, when in high school. 2. Wait. 3. Go to college. Find Child in college library. Look up Lord Randal. Discover, to ones horror, that Child didn't write down the melodies. 4. Compose own melody. 5. Sing. Sing many times over a period of years. 6. Discover The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads. 7. Look up Lord Randal in TSToCPB. 8. Discover that one prefers one's own melody to any of the traditional ones. 9. Stop singing Lord Randal because it may not be cricket to sing a traditional ballad to a modern melody.
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Date: 2006-07-24 06:53 pm (UTC)How do you learn and sing ballads?
1. Find ballad (Lord Randal) in poetry anthology, when in high school.
2. Wait.
3. Go to college. Find Child in college library. Look up Lord Randal. Discover, to ones horror, that Child didn't write down the melodies.
4. Compose own melody.
5. Sing. Sing many times over a period of years.
6. Discover The Singing Tradition of Child's Popular Ballads.
7. Look up Lord Randal in TSToCPB.
8. Discover that one prefers one's own melody to any of the traditional ones.
9. Stop singing Lord Randal because it may not be cricket to sing a traditional ballad to a modern melody.