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MUH 3633 - Music in the United States 5/29/2018 Chapter Six “The Ethiopian Business” : Minstrelsy and Popular Song through the Civil War DAY 15 (4 Oct 17)

Foster’s Songs Multiple audiences 5/29/2018 Foster’s Songs Multiple audiences Minstrelsy - work w/ Christy’s Minstrels - “Ethiopian Melodies” - “Plantation Songs” - "Old Folks at Home“ (original lyrics) - "Old Folks At Home" (Ponselle) Comic Songs - "De Camptown Races" (LG 6.2) - Johnny Cash - Camptown Races – YouTube - "Oh Susanna" as performed by Al Jolson – YouTube “Genteel” tradition (sentimental) - Parlor songs for home use - Marilyn Horne sings Beautiful Dreamer (vaimusic.com) – YouTube Sheet Music Examples - Oh! Susanna [sheet music] - Jim Crow Jubilee [sheet music] DAY 7 - 12 SEP 13 2

“Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair” Ex.: "Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair" (LG 6.3)

“Jeanie” (p. 3-4)

MUH 2019 (FALL 2015) “Jeanie” (p. 5-6) 5/29/2018 DAY 15 (4 Oct 17)

Form of “Jeanie” Introduction (4 mm) “A1” Phrase – (4 mm) incomplete cadence “A2” Phrase – (4 mm) modulates to dominant “B” Phrase – (4 mm) new melody “A3” Phrase – (4 mm) strong cadence in tonic Repeat for each new stanza Coda

Parlor Songs

MUH 3633 - Music in the United States 5/29/2018 Late 19th C Music Room DAY 15 (4 Oct 17)

Chickering Square Piano (1840s) 19th-C US Pianos Mason & Hamlin “(Baby Grand”) Chickering Square Piano (1840s) Wing & Song (upright)

Pianos & Sheet Music in 19th C Mass Production of Pianos - reduces costs - aspirational “luxury” item Domestic Entertainment - middle-class respectability - social skill Women’s Responsibility - Child rearing & education - Family entertainment Market for Tutors, Sheet music, etc., for Amateurs

MUH 3633 - Music in the United States 5/29/2018 Sheet Music in 19th C Commercial Enterprise (it’s a business) Copyright encourages European titles - no protection for non-Americans 600 titles annually (1820s) to 5,000 (1850s) 10% successful (break even or better) 2% hits (1 in 50!) Marketing – tying product to: composer, performer, sentiment, current event, etc. DAY 15 (4 Oct 17)

MUH 3633 - Music in the United States Sentimental Songs 5/29/2018 John Hill Hewitt “Chivalric Love” “Woodman Spare that Tree” (1837) Lyrics – Geo. P. Morris Music – Henry Russell Sheet Music "Woodman Spare That Tree" (1837) "Minstrel's Returned from the War" DAY 15 (4 Oct 17)

MUH 3633 - Music in the United States Hutchinson Family 5/29/2018 American Family Quartet (New England natives) Touring (1842-49) Social Reformers - Temperance - Abolitionist Hutchinson Family Singers- Get Off the Track (LG 6.4) & text, p. 153 DAY 15 (4 Oct 17)

Civil War Songs Southern (Confederacy) Northern (Union) Images of Homeland (Sentimental) Unofficial Anthem "Dixie's Land" (1859-60) Minstrel song! Dan Emmett "Dixie" (CW Re-enacters) Dixie (Hastings [NE] College Choir, 2009) Ole Miss Band (2009) - TSSRA - tradition ended in 2016 Elvis (1973) Northern (Union) Religious Imagery (Abolitionist) Recruiting Song George F. Root, composer "The Battle Cry of Freedom" (1862) (LG 6.5) "Battle Hymn of the Republic“ (1862) - Biblical Imagery