ABSTRACT
Věra Frolcová analyses in her chapter melodies of Czech broadside ballads and pilgrimage songs as well as the media more generally of the song tradition (including printed and manuscript hymn books and pilgrimage books as well as documents of secular and religious songs from the oral tradition). Frolcová’s analysis is based on musical scores (sung from memory) of Czech broadside ballads made by folklorists from the 1940s to the 1950s. Frolcová shows a synthesis between folk melodies and broadside ballads, especially in their repertoires of religious songs.
