A broadside is a single sheet of inexpensive paper with a ballad, rhyme, news, or advertisement printed on one side. Some broadsides include woodcut illustrations. Broadsides of song lyrics typically do not include musical notation. Instead, they often indicate a well-known melody to which the words could be applied. Broadsides were among the most common forms of printed material between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, particularly in Britain, Ireland, and North America. |
