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The Music of American Folk Song: And Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music

The Music of American Folk Song: And Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music

Seeger, Ruth Crawford
Polansky, Larry
Tick, Judith

Paperback

Series: Eastman Studies in Music, Book 17

Country & FolkMusic ReferenceMusic Theory

ISBN10: 1580461360
ISBN13: 9781580461368
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: May 15 2003
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.34 Depth: 8.94
Language: English
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.

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 longand 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 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.

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