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

2. Foster’s Songs Multiple audiences
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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]
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3. “Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair”
Ex.: "Jeanie With The Light Brown Hair" (LG 6.3)

4. “Jeanie” (p. 3-4)

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

6. 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

7. Parlor Songs

8. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
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Late 19th C Music Room
DAY 15 (4 Oct 17)

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

10. 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

11. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
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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.
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12. MUH 3633 - Music in the United States
Sentimental Songs
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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)

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

14. Civil War Songs Southern (Confederacy) Northern (Union)
Images of Homeland (Sentimental)
Unofficial Anthem
"Dixie's Land" ( ) 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