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 Hoedown lowdown
Author: mrn 
Date:   2009-07-07 22:58

I found some interesting information I thought I'd share. I didn't realize this until I ran across this today, but Copland's Hoedown from Rodeo (a frequently discussed piece on here) was based (pretty much note-for-note) on a single Library of Congress recording of one particular fiddler's interpretation of a traditional tune. I ran across the source recording here on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeQucos9-M

Apparently Ruth Crawford Seeger made a transcription of this recording, which Copland used as the source material for the Hoedown, which you can read about here.

A discussion of various versions of this tune (with examples) is here.

Anyway, I thought this was kind of interesting. Now if I could just find that Brazilian tune Copland stole to write the Concerto.... :)



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 Re: Hoedown lowdown
Author: GBK 
Date:   2009-07-07 23:11

mrn wrote:

> Copland's Hoedown from Rodeo (a frequently discussed piece on
> here)


Or, its better known title: "One long tonguing exercise written for the wrong clarinet"

...GBK

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 Re: Hoedown lowdown
Author: mrn 
Date:   2009-07-08 03:41

GBK wrote:

> Or, its better known title: "One long tonguing exercise
> written for the wrong clarinet"

That it is! :)

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 Re: Hoedown lowdown
Author: rsholmes 
Date:   2009-07-08 13:21

A band called Mad Pudding recorded, I am not making this up, a folkie version of Emerson Lake and Palmer's rock version of Aaron Copland's classical version of a folkie fiddle tune.

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