这些叙事曲最早于1916年和1939年出版，但民间已经流传久远，特别是在肯塔基、维吉尼亚、北卡罗莱那地区，这些歌曲更可以追溯到欧洲大布列颠岛屿传统的歌调。歌曲多为情歌，表达爱慕之情和对恋人的等待。女高音Custer LaRue以迷人的嗓音提升了原来音乐中天然的美感。伴奏的乐器主要是柳特琴、西特琴等中古乐器，巴尔地摩合奏团简单的伴奏组合使音乐更加质朴和亲切。这张唱片录音极佳，是测试人声表现的名片。

Product Details

Performer: Custer LaRue, Mary Anne Ballard
Audio CD (March 28, 1995)
SPARS Code: DDD
Number of Discs: 1
Label: Dorian Recordings

1. Turtledove
2. Fair Margagret And Sweet William 
3. Gypsen Davey 
4. Arise, Arise, Ye Slumbering Sleeper 
5. Soldier Boy For Me 
6. Lord Bateman 
7. Berayna 
8. The Outlandish Knight 
9. Lady Gay (The Wife Of Usher’s Well) 
10. Johnny Home From Sea
11. Charlie’s Sweet 
12. Earl Brand 
13. The Lady And The Dragoon 
14. The Nightingale 
15. The Rebel Soldier 
16. The True Lover’s Farewell 


The True Lover’s Farewell: Appalacian Folk Ballads: Custer LaRue (soprano) with members of The Baltimore Consort (Dorian Recordings DOR-90213).
This lady with the strange name specialises in singing folk music, but it is interesting that her approach to this kind of music has been through singing mediaeval and Renaissance music, giving her treatment of this music a very unique style.

The songs on this disc, too, have a strange style. They clearly come originally from Europe, particularly the British Isles, but on the way through the American Appalacians they have aquired a faster beat, and in some cases quite different tunes. The songs, and tunes, were collected from old people living in this area of America, and each song is notated with the date of its collection, and the singer who sang it for the collector.

There are some beautiful individual tracks: the long ballad "Lord Bateman" with a wonderfully catchy tune, and unusually for a traditional ballad, a happy ending; "Soldier Boy for Me" with its careless approach to love (reminiscent of Lydia in "Pride and Prejudice"); the sad, lyrical "Arise, Arise, You Slumbering Sleeper".

I’ve been playing this, and a companion disc, "Custer LaRue sings the Daemon Lover", quite a lot recently, and I’ve still to grow wearing of listening to them.

以下试听是其中的两首歌曲：

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謝謝舒伯莱姆

不知道在叙述着对谁的思念！

舒伯莱姆发的音乐都很特别哦

因为网络上信息丰富，重复分享大家都有的东东，意义不大！

Mary Anne Ballard 的歌聲非常澄澈乾淨,我好像有張她的歌曲集說,很棒的;謝謝舒伯萊姆



敘事曲的體裁發源於中世紀的定形詩，除有固定的詩形外，根據其語源有時也兼指舞蹈歌。到了１４世紀以後只歌不舞，在法國、義大利、英國、德國成為獨唱或複調敘事歌曲的通稱。到了１８世紀演變為敘事詩形式，如作家歌德的「魔王」敘事詩，作家黑爾達的「愛德華」敘事詩等。後來一些作曲家，根據敘事詩的詞把它們譜寫成歌曲，從而形成了獨立完整的敘述體歌曲。如勒韋的「愛德華」、舒伯特的「魔王」、舒曼的「兩個近衛兵」等。
蕭邦首先在篇幅長大而富於戲劇性的鋼琴曲中使用敘事曲這一名稱，後來布拉姆斯、李斯特、葛利格、維厄唐、弗雷等音樂家也在鋼琴曲中使用其名。
一部分管弦樂作品也借用了敘事體形式。如柴可夫斯基的交響敘事曲「督軍」、杜卡斯的「魔法師的弟子」、林姆斯基高沙可夫的交響組曲「舍赫拉查德」等，都是較典型的交響敘事曲。

谢谢分亨

It sounds excellent, many thanks!

謝謝舒伯莱姆

thank you very much