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| "A HISTORY NOTE IN EARLY AMERICAN MUSIC" |
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TWO U.S. PRESIDENTS BOTH DIED
ON THE SAME DAY: JULY 4TH, 1826:
THEY WERE THE SECOND
PRESIDENT, JOHN ADAMS, AND THE
THIRD PRESIDENT, THOMAS
JEFFERSON.
ON THAT SAME DAY,
ON THE SAME DAY: JULY 4TH, 1826:
THEY WERE THE SECOND
PRESIDENT, JOHN ADAMS, AND THE
THIRD PRESIDENT, THOMAS
JEFFERSON.
ON THAT SAME DAY,
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| A BOY WAS BORN WHO WOULD LIVE TO WRITE SOME OF THE FIRST TRULY "AMERICAN" MUSIC ... FROM TUNES LIKE "OH, SUSANNA" AND "CAMPTOWN RACES", TO BEAUTIFUL LOVE SONGS LIKE "I DREAM OF JEANIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR" AND "BEAUTIFUL DREAMER", TO FAVORITES LIKE "MY OLD KENTUCKY HOME" AND "OLD FOLKS AT HOME", (ALSO KNOWN AS "WAY DOWN UPON THE SWANEE RIVER"). THE MUSIC OF STEPHEN C. FOSTER HAS BEEN TRANSLATED INTO ALMOST EVERY LANGUAGE IN THE WORLD. WHILE MUCH OF THE AMERICAN MUSIC OF THE EARLY TO MID-1800'S CAME FROM THE EUROPEAN TRADITIONS OF CLASSICAL MUSIC, STEPHEN FOSTER'S MUSIC CAME OUT OF HIS OWN LIFE EXPERIENCE AS A BOY IN PITTSBURGH, PA., AT THE HEADWATERS OF THE GREAT OHIO RIVER. HE HAD OCCASION TO HEAR THE SONGS OF THE NEGRO DECK HANDS WHO WORKED THE STEAMBOATS COMING UP FROM NEW ORLEANS, AND HE WAS GREATLY INFLUENCED BY THE MUSIC HE HEARD AT A NEGRO CHURCH HE OFTEN ATTENDED AS A BOY. THOUGH STEPHEN FOSTER HAD VERY LITTLE FORMAL MUSICAL TRAINING, HE WROTE THE MUSIC AND THE WORDS TO MOST OF HIS SONGS. HE WAS A TRUE AMERICAN ORIGINAL. |
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| CLASSICAL MUSIC BIO-NOTE |
| ludwig Van Beethoven |
He Was born in 1770, but contrary to popular myth, was NOT born deaf. His deafness started when he was about 31. He heard and wrote much for 25 or so more years -- his total deafness came around 1824. In his short lifetime (by today's reckoning) of about 57 years, he wrote 9 Symphonies. . . 32 piano sonatas, 16 string quartets, 5 piano concertos, 1 violin concerto, an Opera (FIDELIO), and a mountain of overtures, chamber music pieces, choral music, E T C. Unlike many "Decomposing Composers", his music was as popular "back in the day" as it is these days in both popular and classical music circles, and we often hear his music in ads, movies, elevators, etc. |
| A LITTLE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE, PLEASE . . . |
AT THE SAME TIME THAT ENGLAND WAS TRYING TO SUBDUE THE AMERICAN COLONISTS AND KEEP THEM UNDER THE FOUL
WING OF BRITAIN'S KING GEORGE, one THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS BUSY WRITING AT A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
AND THE MUSICAL PRODIGY WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART WAS BUSY AS THE 16-YEAR OLD ASSISTANT MUSIC DIRECTOR TO THE
ARCHBISHOP HIERONYMUS COUNT COLLOREDO --- THIS WAS ALL GOING ON IN THE MID-1770'S, JUST A WHILE AFTER THE BOSTON
TEA PARTY INCIDENT IN 1773. DID MOZART AND JEFFERSON EVER MEET AND TALK IN PARIS - JEFFERSON WAS WELL KNOWN IN
PARIS OF THE DAY. UNKNOWN. IT IS AN INTERESTING THOUGHT, THOUGH, TO THINK THAT SUCH A BRILLIANT MUSICIAN MIGHT
HAVE HAD SOME INFLUENCE ON MR. JEFFERSON AND HIS IDEALS, or that MR. JEFFERSON'S IDEALS MAY HAVE INFLUENCED SOME OF
MOZART'S MUSIC.
WHAT DO "B.C" AND "A.D." STAND FOR ? Most of us know that " B. C. " means "before Christ." It is a common misconception, though, that " A. D. "
means "after death" or after the death of Christ. The "A.D." actually stands for "Anno Domini," a Latin phrase meaning "in the year of Our Lord," or as
we understand in the present day, Webster's Dictionary labels the meaning as: "in the year specified of the Christian Era." There is currently a
movement underway to change the time designation to: "B.C.E." and "A.C.E." : "Before the Common Era" and "After the Common Era". Many
publications already use the new terminology ... SOME FOLKS JUST CAN'T LEAVE A GOOD THING ALONE !
Imagine : SINCE 1826, a mere 180 years since Jefferson and Adams died on the same day on July 4th, 1826, (that's about 3 or 4 generations of
people who live to 60 years of age) the U.S. population has grown from about 5 million people to about 270 million people...and Earth's population has
grown from about 750 million to 6 BILLION. WHY? WHY HAS THE WORLD GOTTEN SO BIG? Why are there so many more people around
TODAY? People live longer, for one thing, and in many cultures people have larger families. BUT -- Could it be that God, in His Greater Design, desires
as many more souls as He can to populate His Heaven? Well then, so for Christ-followers, What a World of Opportunity is out there to teach and to tell
the story of Jesus and His Love !
WING OF BRITAIN'S KING GEORGE, one THOMAS JEFFERSON WAS BUSY WRITING AT A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
AND THE MUSICAL PRODIGY WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART WAS BUSY AS THE 16-YEAR OLD ASSISTANT MUSIC DIRECTOR TO THE
ARCHBISHOP HIERONYMUS COUNT COLLOREDO --- THIS WAS ALL GOING ON IN THE MID-1770'S, JUST A WHILE AFTER THE BOSTON
TEA PARTY INCIDENT IN 1773. DID MOZART AND JEFFERSON EVER MEET AND TALK IN PARIS - JEFFERSON WAS WELL KNOWN IN
PARIS OF THE DAY. UNKNOWN. IT IS AN INTERESTING THOUGHT, THOUGH, TO THINK THAT SUCH A BRILLIANT MUSICIAN MIGHT
HAVE HAD SOME INFLUENCE ON MR. JEFFERSON AND HIS IDEALS, or that MR. JEFFERSON'S IDEALS MAY HAVE INFLUENCED SOME OF
MOZART'S MUSIC.
WHAT DO "B.C" AND "A.D." STAND FOR ? Most of us know that " B. C. " means "before Christ." It is a common misconception, though, that " A. D. "
means "after death" or after the death of Christ. The "A.D." actually stands for "Anno Domini," a Latin phrase meaning "in the year of Our Lord," or as
we understand in the present day, Webster's Dictionary labels the meaning as: "in the year specified of the Christian Era." There is currently a
movement underway to change the time designation to: "B.C.E." and "A.C.E." : "Before the Common Era" and "After the Common Era". Many
publications already use the new terminology ... SOME FOLKS JUST CAN'T LEAVE A GOOD THING ALONE !
Imagine : SINCE 1826, a mere 180 years since Jefferson and Adams died on the same day on July 4th, 1826, (that's about 3 or 4 generations of
people who live to 60 years of age) the U.S. population has grown from about 5 million people to about 270 million people...and Earth's population has
grown from about 750 million to 6 BILLION. WHY? WHY HAS THE WORLD GOTTEN SO BIG? Why are there so many more people around
TODAY? People live longer, for one thing, and in many cultures people have larger families. BUT -- Could it be that God, in His Greater Design, desires
as many more souls as He can to populate His Heaven? Well then, so for Christ-followers, What a World of Opportunity is out there to teach and to tell
the story of Jesus and His Love !
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| FROM OUT OF THE LATE 1800'S AND EARLY 1900'S IN AMERICA CAME A MUSIC THAT WAS BORN OF MANY PLACES FROM WYOMING TO OKLAHOMA, AND ALL THE RANCHES AND TRAILS IN BETWEEN. IT WAS A TIME OF CATTLE BARONS AND CATTLE DROVERS, EX-CIVIL WAR SOLDIERS FROM BOTH SIDES NORTH AND SOUTH, MURDEROUS OUTLAWS AND MEXICAN BANDITOS, ALL TRYING TO STAKE A CLAIM IN WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE OPEN COUNTRY OF THE SOUTHWEST UNITED STATES. SOME OF THE BEST AND MOST ENDURING COWBOY SONGS WERE WRITTEN BY UNNAMED DROVERS WHO DID THE HARD WORK OF PUSHING THE CATTLE FROM THE RANCHES TO THE MARKETPLACE, AND THE HARD LIFE OF THE COWBOY ON THE CATTLE DRIVE WAS NEVER AS SIMPLY OR EVER BETTER TOLD THAN IN THE COWBOY SONG OF A THOUSAND VARIATIONS: "The Old Chisholm Trail" "OH, COME ALONG BOYS, AND LISTEN TO MY TALE AND I'LL TELL YOU ALL THE STORY `BOUT THE OLD CHISHOLM TRAIL COME A-TI-YI-YOUPY-YOUPY-YA YOUPY YA COME A-TI-YI-YOUPY- YOUPY YA" |
| THE CHISHOLM TRAIL RAN FROM SAN ANTONIO,TEXAS NORTHWARD TO ABILENE, KANSAS, DELIVERING CATTLE TO THE RAILHEAD IN ABILENE FOR TWENTY YEARS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. IT WAS NAMED FOR JESSE CHISHOLM, 1806-1868, A CHEROKEE INDIAN TRADER. |
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