American antebellum fiddling /

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"This unique volume is the only book solely about antebellum American fiddling. It includes more than 250 easy-to-read and clearly-notated fiddle tunes alongside biographies of fiddlers and careful analysis of their personal tune collections. The reader learns what the tunes of the day were, wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Goertzen, Chris (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Series:American made music series.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Fiddle tunes > United States > 19th century > History and criticism.
Fiddlers > United States.
Fiddle tunes > United States > 19th century.
Airs de violoneux > États-Unis > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Violoneux > États-Unis.
Airs de violoneux > États-Unis > 19e siècle.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Folk & Traditional.
Fiddle tunes
Fiddlers
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Fiddle tunes in music commonplace books: young musicians illustrate American taste at the beginning of the nineteenth century
  • Charles Morris Cobb, William Sidney Mount, and their large manuscript music collections from the 1840s to the 1850s
  • Fiddlers noving south, and west, and away from notation
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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