MUSIC 2251 Chapter Notes - Chapter 37: Parlour Music, Piano, Strophic Form
19 Oct 2018
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Ch 37 - marketing music: foster and early popular song. Music in early north america: cultivated and vernacular. There was not yet a split between classical" and popular" music in the 1800s. Songs of foster exemplify the intersection bt vernacular american spirit and euro art tradition. Parlor songs -- sweet, sentimental, nostalgic, combination of italian opera and folk song. Minstrelsy -- featured white performers in blackface, acting out plantation scenes. A song by foster: jeanie with the light brown hair. Melody = wavelike (descending, then ascending); syllabic setting. Rhythm/meter = moderate tempo in broad quadruple meter. Harmony = major key, simple block- and broken-chord accompaniment. Form = strophic, in a-a"-b"-a song form.
