MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gid Tanner, Strophic Form, Yodeling
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Ideal archetype of white folk music: solo voice (no background singers, rigid, high, nasal, lyrics of primary importance, everything else subservient, repetitive melody and accompaniment. Ostinato continually repeated music phrase or rhythm. Tendon african american music favored tendered over linguistic sense. Non sensible going beyond language is vocal. Bin crosby wasn"t personally engaged in the story. Oddis reddingtons performance does not exhibit impersonal elements rather emotional engagement. Ballad is a narrative story refers to slow songs. While variants exist they always retain an emotional core- majority of these ballads have roots in ireland, scotland etc. the same basic tunes, same basic story, but tons of variations as american music. The emotional core remains, and contains the universal theme. Tune families you have a basic melody that goes up at 1/3 at one point, and then changes to a different note. The key pitches might be the same, but there are variations on it.
