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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 long andwas 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. The manuscript has been edited from several varying sources by Larry Polansky, with the assistance of Seeger's biographer Judith Tick. It is divided into two sections: I.'A Note on Transcription'and II.'Notes on the Songs and on Manners of Singing.'Seeger examines all aspects of the relation

Author

Ruth Crawford Seeger

Publisher

Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9781580461368

Subjects

Music, History, Arts