| Series |
Eastman studies in music, 1071-9989 ; [17]
Eastman studies in music ; vol. 17. ^A494093
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| Contents |
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succeeding stanzas -- Tone attack and release -- Intonation -- Scale and mode -- Accompaniment -- The Songs -- List of unpublished transcriptions in the Lomax family archives -- Amazing grace / Pisgah transcriptions from George Pullen Jackson's White and Negro Spirituals -- Selected other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). |
| Abstract |
This book provides stunning insights into Ruth Crawford Seeger's little known and foundational contribution to the study of folk song. Seeger's descriptive analysis of traditional American musical-performance qualities can serve as a workbook for translating between different languages and musics. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2001035576 |
| ISBN | 158046095X (alk. paper) |
