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American Antebellum Fiddling (Paperback)
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American Antebellum Fiddling (Paperback)
Series: American Made Music Series
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This unique volume is the only book solely about antebellum
American fiddling. It includes more than 250 easy-to-read and
clearly notated fiddle tunes alongside biographies of fiddlers and
careful analysis of their personal tune collections. The reader
learns what the tunes of the day were, what the fiddlers' lives
were like, and as much as can be discovered about how fiddling
sounded then. Personal histories and tunes' biographies offer an
accessible window on a fascinating period, on decades of growth and
change, and on rich cultural history made audible. In the decades
before the Civil War, American fiddling thrived mostly in oral
tradition, but some fiddlers also wrote down versions of their
tunes. This overlap between oral and written traditions reveals
much about the sounds and social contexts of fiddling at that time.
In the early 1800s, aspiring young violinists maintained manuscript
collections of tunes they intended to learn. These books contained
notations of oral-tradition dance tunes - many of them melodies
that predated and would survive this era - plus plenty of song
melodies and marches. Chris Goertzen takes us into the lives and
repertoires of two such young men, Arthur McArthur and Philander
Seward. Later, in the 1830s to 1850s, music publications grew in
size and shrunk in cost, so fewer musicians kept personal
manuscript collections. But a pair of energetic musicians did.
Goertzen tells the stories of two remarkable violinist/fiddlers who
wrote down many hundreds of tunes and whose notations of those
tunes are wonderfully detailed, Charles M. Cobb and William Sidney
Mount. Goertzen closes by examining particularly problematic
collections. He takes a fresh look at George Knauff's Virginia
Reels and presents and analyzes an amateur musician's own
questionable but valuable transcriptions of his grandfather's
fiddling, which reaches back to antebellum western Virginia.
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