Word: ballads
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...Students from Berea College, Kentucky, danced odd "running sets," sang a version of the ballad Barbara Allen which Samuel Pepys knew. Tall, good-looking Reuben Taylor, an Oxford graduate who prefers to stay in the mountains and raise blackberries, sang ballads with Kentucky's Homeplace Mountain Center Group...
...clouding over, the first admirals' barges began to arrive for an official reception, and as more cocked hats and gold lace than Portsmouth harbor had seen for two decades assembled under the yacht's awning the Royal Marines Band burst into Irving Berlin's well-known ballad...
...became concertmaster of the Frankfort Opera, but was conscripted for the army shortly afterward. There he served as a drummer because he had no training in brasses. After the Armistice Hindemith returned to Frankfort to compose. He concentrated on chamber music, also wrote settings for poems by Walt Whitman, ballad cycles, strange discordant operas with such names as Murderer, Women's Hope, The Nusch-Nuschi (for marionettes), Sancta Susanna...
...perfection. Before the caviling mood is passed, it might be observed that in the final scene, in China, Richard and Chester's telling us in discordant song that Abdul Abulbul Ameer fought in the ranks of the Tsar, is likely to be resented by admirers of the old ballad as an unpardonable confusion...
...Going Down Sackville Street (the line is from a bawdy ballad) is not patterned in the ordinary, staid memoir manner. Not only by the title but by the book's motto ("We Irishmen are apt to think something and nothing are near neighbors") and the author's note ("The names in this book are real, the characters fictitious") readers are warned to hang on to their hats...