Folk-Songs of the Kentucky Mountains

Folk-Songs of the Kentucky Mountains PDF Author: Josephine McGill
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Folk-Songs of the Kentucky Mountains

Folk-Songs of the Kentucky Mountains PDF Author: Josephine McGill
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 124

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Folk Songs of Old Kentucky

Folk Songs of Old Kentucky PDF Author: Ralph Lee Smith
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
ISBN: 1609742648
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 81

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This book provides 20 beautiful Anglo-American folk songs, field-collected by two remarkable real-life song catchers, Josephine McGill and Loraine Wyman, in the Cumberland Mountains of Kentucky in 1914 and 1916. Josephine and Loraine, the latter accompanied by Howard Brockway, a composer and arranger, were among the first persons to search for folk songs in the Southern Appalachians. the musical adventurers traveled hundreds of miles on horseback and on foot through an inaccessible world to which radios, roads and cars had not yet come. They made friends in isolated log cabins, and transcribed some 200 song treasures, some of which they published in complex arrangements in books that are now out of print and rare. This book contains a selection of the songs, presented with simplified musical notation, guitar chords, and dulcimer tablature. It also includes glowing \accounts of their mountain adventures, published by Josephine and Howard in long-forgotten publications; a must for all lovers of American folk music.

Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean Ritchie

Folk Songs of the Southern Appalachians as Sung by Jean Ritchie PDF Author: Jean Ritchie
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780813109275
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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This new edition has faithfully retained all seventy-seven line scores of the songs and added four new ones, Loving Hannah, Lovin' Henry, Her Mantle So Green, and The Reckless and Rambling Boy. The original headnotes and photographs tell the history of the song as well as how it became a part of the family's life. Chords are indicated for accompaniment; however, music notation and the printed word can present only a reasonable facsimile of any actual song.

Lonesome Tunes

Lonesome Tunes PDF Author: Loraine Wyman
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Category : Folk songs
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Singing Family of the Cumberlands

Singing Family of the Cumberlands PDF Author: Jean Ritchie
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press
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Category : Country musicians
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Autobiography of an American folk-singer, who grew up in the Cumberland mountains. With the words and music of many songs.

Romancing the Folk

Romancing the Folk PDF Author: Benjamin Filene
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807848623
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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In American music, the notion of "roots" has been a powerful refrain, but just what constitutes our true musical traditions has often been a matter of debate. As Benjamin Filene reveals, a number of competing visions of America's musical past have vied fo

Folk Songs of the Catskills

Folk Songs of the Catskills PDF Author: Norman Cazden
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780873955805
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Traditional songs from the Catskill area of New York State are accompanied by detailed discusssions of their roots, development, musical structure, and subject matter

American Ballads and Folk Songs

American Ballads and Folk Songs PDF Author: Alan Lomax
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486282763
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-songs

A Syllabus of Kentucky Folk-songs PDF Author: Hubert Gibson Shearin
Publisher:
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Category : Folk poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 50

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Kentucky Folkmusic

Kentucky Folkmusic PDF Author: Burt Feintuch
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813187990
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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In 1899, a fundraising program for Berea College featured a group of students from the mountains of eastern Kentucky singing traditional songs from their homes. The audience was entranced. That small en-counter at the end of the last century lies near the beginning of an unparalleled national—and international—fascination with the indigenous music of a single state. Kentucky has long figured prominently in our national sense of traditional music. Over the years, a diverse group of people—reformers, enthusiasts, the musically literate and the musically illiterate, radicals, liberals, a British gentleman and his woman companion, amateurs, local residents, and academics—have been sufficiently captivated by that music to have devoted considerable energy to harvesting it from its fertile ground, studying its various manifestations, and considering its many performers. Kentucky Folkmusic: An Annotated Bibliography is a guide to the literature of this remarkable music. More than seven hundred entries, each with an evaluative annotation, comprise the largest bibliographic resource for the folkmusic of any state or region in North America. Divided into eight sections, the bibliography covers collections and anthologies; fieldworkers and scholars; singers, musicians, and other performers; text-centered studies; studies of history, context, and style; festivals; dance; and discographies, check-lists, and other reference tools. A subject index, an author index, and an index of periodicals provide access to the materials. From early hymnals and songsters to Kentucky performers of traditional music, the bibliography is a comprehensive guide to music which has for many years been one of the major emblems of American traditional music.