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Thread #150785 Message #3515425
Posted By: Steve Gardham
15-May-13 - 02:53 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Lord Lovel (Child #75)
Subject: RE: Origins: Lord Lovel (Child #75)
Mick,
Me too!
You will be tested on it later.
Jon,
I'm not suggesting that LL definitely originated as a burlesque. It could have been a burlesque on the ballad genre in general, or it could have been a burlesque on an older LL that is now lost.
I think one of the big give-aways with many of these burlesques is the jolly tune allied to a text with pathos.(But not always as 'Ah My love's dead' by Cowell was comic in its exaggerated pathos.)
And yes, the comedy is often in the ear of the listener or the intent of the performer, but that is so with some comic situations even today. One man's meat is another man's poison.