The music of American folk song and selected other writings on American folk music
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The music of American folk song and selected other writings on American folk music
University of Rochester Press, 2001
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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内容説明
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 andwas replaced by a much shorter version. According to her stepson, Pete Seeger, when the original was not included "Ruth suffered one of the biggest disappointments of the last ten years of her life. It just killed her . . . She was trying to analyze the whole style and problem of performing this music." Along with her children Mike and Peggy Seeger, he has long desired to see this work in print as it was meant to be read.
The manuscript has been edited from several varying sources by Larry Polansky, with the assistance of Seeger's biographer Judith Tick. It is divided into two sections: I. "A Note on Transcription" and II. "Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing." Seeger examines all aspects of the relationship between singer, song, notation, the eventual performer, and the transcriber.
In Section I, Seeger develops a complex and well-organized system of notation for these songs which is meant to be both descritive [transcription as cultural preservation] and prescriptive [she intended that others would be able to perform these songs]. In Section II, she provides an interpretive theory for performance of this music, and suggests how performers might make the songs "their own" through a deep knowledge of the original styles. Ruth Crawford Seeger considered this work to be both a major accomplishment and a central statement of her own ideas on the topic.
Larry Polansky is Associate Professor of Music at Dartmouth College, and a well-known composer and theorist on American music.
Judith Tick is Professor of Music at Northeastern University and author ofthe first major biography of Ruth Crawford Seeger.
目次
Editor's Introduction: Larry Polansky
Prefaces: Mike Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Pete Seeger
Historical Introduction: Judith Tick
Music of American Folk Song
Pre-School Children and American Folk Music
Keep the Song Going
Review of John N. Work's American Negro Songs for Mixed Voices
Amazing Grace and Pisgah transcriptions
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