Opis: Music of American Folk Song - Ruth Crawford Seeger, Larry Polansky

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 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 analyse 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 descriptive (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 of the first major biography of Ruth Crawford Seeger. Illuminates the work of Crawford's last two decades; it is admirably produced with musical examples and plates, and is particularly welcome at a time when her music is increasingly performed and recorded. TLS Every scholar and performer of American folk and modernist music, and anyone interested in the intellectual history of musicology and ethnomusicology, will want to read this book. NOTES, Dec. 2002List of Illustrations List of Musical Examples Foreword PETE SEEGER Foreword: A Few Personal Words about Ruth Crawford Seeger's The Music of American Folk Song MIKE SEEGER Foreword PEGGY SEEGER Historical Introduction: "The Salvation of Writing Things Down" JUDITH TICK Editor's Introduction LARRY POLANSKY Abbreviations The Music of American Folk Song RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER I. A Note on Transcription 1. The Singer and the Song 2. Phonographic Recording of the Song 3. Transcription of the Song from Phonographic Recording a. Transcription from phonograph recording versus dictation direct from folk singer, player or intermediary b. Transcription through graph notation 4. The Reader and the Song 5. Music Notation as a Bridge 6. Three Basic Types of Transcription Illustrated 7. Song-norm 8. Majority Usage 9. Underlimits of Amount of Detail Shown in Notation, Especially with Regard to the Simpler Singing-Styles 10. The Model Tune as Representative of the Song As a Whole 11. The Initial Tune as Model Tune 12. The Composite Tune 13. The Transcriber and a Changing Oral Tradition II. Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing 14. Adherence to a Dynamic Level throughout the Song As a Whole 15. Adherence to a Dramatic Level throughout the Song As a Whole 16. Adherence to the Tempo Set at the Beginning of the Song a. Infrequency of long ritardandos from the beginning to the end of the song as a whole b. Infrequency of short stereotyped ritardandos at ends of phrases and stanzas 17. Strict Time and Free Singing Styles 18. Pulse and Count 19. Anticipation and Delay of Beat 20. Simple and Compound Meter 21. Metrical Irregularities - Prolongation and Contraction of Measure a. Prolongation of measure - the extended tone and the extended or inserted rest b. Underlimit of metrical irregularity shown in these notations, especially with regard to extension of tone and extension or insertion of rest c. Manners of notating extended tone and extended or inserted rest 22. Metrical Irregularities - Divisions of Beat and Measure 23. Rest 24. Phrase Pattern a. Number of measures to a phrase b. Number of phrases to the [stanza] 25. Interstanzaic Variation 26. Manners of Accomodating Extra Syllables of Succeeding Stanzas 27. Tone Attack and Release a. Attack b. Release 28. Intonation 29. Scale and Mode 30. Accompaniment Editor's Endnotes Appendix 1: Songs Referred to in The Music of American Folk Song Appendix 2: List of Unpublished Transcriptions in Lomax Family Archives Appendix 3: Amazing Grace/Pisgah transcriptions, from George Pullen Jackson, White and Negro Spirituals Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music RUTH CRAWFORD SEEGER Introduction LARRY POLANSKY

Szczegóły: Music of American Folk Song - Ruth Crawford Seeger, Larry Polansky

Tytuł: Music of American Folk Song
Autor: Ruth Crawford Seeger, Larry Polansky
Producent: University of Rochester Press
ISBN: 9781580460958
Rok produkcji: 2002
Ilość stron: 210
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.54 kg

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