MUSI 1530 Lecture Notes - Vernon Dalhart, Reynardine, Bob Wills
21 Jul 2014
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Videos: bill moyers, amazing grace, pbs (1990) http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=ie2a3qxmsqo, phylis geller, the appalachians (2005) Part 4: http://www. youtube. com/watch?v=lwy_9uzmgfq: folk characteristics and historical origins, sacred music (lined hymns and shape-note hymns, secular music (fiddle tunes and ballads, hillbilly music/country and western timeline, string bands, western (or texas) swing, honky tonk. General characteristics: verbal art passed down from generation to generation, transmitted orally/aurally, folk memory may corrupt what it retains, preserved both consciously and unconsciously. I once was lost but now am found, T"was grace that taught my heart to fear. "tis grace that brought me safe thus far and grace will lead me home. One evening as i rambled among the leaves so green. I met a young woman converse with reynardine. Her hair was black, her eyes were blue, her lips as red as wine. And he smiled [ ] did that sly old reynardine. She said, my sir, be civil my company forsake.
