"The music of American folk song" and selected other writings on American folk music /

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This is the first publication of an annotated monograph by the noted composer and folksong scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger. Originally written as a foreword for the 1940 book Our Singing Country, it was considered too long and was replaced by a much shorter version. According to her stepson, Pete Seege...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953
Otros Autores: Polansky, Larry, 1954-, Tick, Judith
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2001.
Colección:Eastman studies in music ; v. 17.
Temas:
Folk music > United States > History and criticism.
Musical notation.
Oral tradition > United States.
Field recordings > History.
Musique folklorique > États-Unis > Histoire et critique.
Musique > Notation.
Tradition orale > États-Unis.
Enregistrements de terrain (Musique) > Histoire.
MUSIC > Printed Music > General.
MUSIC / History & Criticism
Field recordings.
Folk music.
Oral tradition.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of illustrations
  • List of musical examples
  • The Salvation of writing things down / Judith Tick
  • A Note on transcription: The singer and the song
  • Phonographic recording of the song
  • Transcription of the song from phonographic recording versus dictation direct from folk singer, player or Intermediary
  • Transcription through graph notation
  • The reader and the song
  • Music notation as a bridge
  • Three basic types of transcription illustrated
  • Song-norm
  • Majority usage
  • Underlimits of amount of detail shown in notation, esp. the simpler singing styles
  • The model tune as representative of the song as a whole
  • The initial tune as a model tune
  • The Composite tune
  • The Transcriber and a changing oral tradition
  • Nnotes on the songs and on manners of singing: Adherence to a dynamic level throughout the song
  • Adherence to a dramatic level throughout the song
  • Adherence to the tempo set at the beginning of the song
  • Infrequency of long ritardandos from the beginning to the end of the song
  • Infrequency of short stereotyped ritardandos at ends of phrases and stanzas
  • Strict time and free singing styles
  • Pulse and count
  • Anticipation and delay of beat
  • Simple and compound meter
  • Metrical irregularities: prolongation and contraction of measure: Extended tone and the extended or inserted rest
  • Underlimit of metrical irregularity shown in these notations
  • Metrical irregularities
  • Rest
  • Phrase pattern: Number of measures to a phrase
  • Number of phrases to the stanza
  • Interstanzaic variation
  • Manners of accommodating extra syllables of succeeding stanzas
  • Tone attack and release
  • Intonation
  • Scale and mode
  • Accompaniment
  • The Songs
  • List of unpublished transcriptions in the Lomax family archives
  • Amazing grace / Pisgah transcriptions from George Pullen Jackson's White and Negro Spirituals
  • Selected other writings on American folk music
  • Pre-school children and American folk music (late 1940s?)
  • Keep the song going! (1951)
  • Review of John N. Work's American Negro Songs for Mixed Voices (1948).

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