Seeger / Polansky The Music of American Folk Song

and Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-1-58046-609-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 17, 212 Seiten

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

This is the first complete publication of the late composer and scholar Ruth Crawford Seeger's major work on American folksongs. It preserves them as well as demonstrates how they should be played so that they remain a living partof the American musical tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seeger, Ruth Crawford

Polansky, Larry

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tick, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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