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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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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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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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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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