Scarborough Fair - The Ballard
Scarborough Fair is an English folk song dating back to the late medieval times or Renaissance period, the time of growing cities and flowering mercantile ports.
Scarborough Fair is an English folk song dating back to the late medieval times or Renaissance period, the time of growing cities and flowering mercantile ports.
As the dark ages drew to a close the seaside resort of Scarborough was an important and prosperous harbour city and port for tradesmen from all over England.
Scarborough was originally known as Skarthaborg by the norman Skartha, from well over a thousand years ago.
The song was sung by Bards (or shapers) who travelled from town to town to entertain the swelling audiences. Scarborough was famous for its yearly fair — a big forty-five day trading event in August and September — to which the song title refers.
The song is written in the Dorian Mode. Read more about the Dorian mode in music and history.
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