Why Willie Mae Thornton matters / by Denise, Lynnée (DJ)

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Sing them over again to me : hymns and hymnbooks in America /

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"The music of American folk song" and selected other writings on American folk music / by Seeger, Ruth Crawford, 1901-1953

Table of Contents: “…List of illustrations -- List of musical examples -- The Salvation of writing things down / Judith Tick -- A Note on transcription: The singer and the song -- Phonographic recording of the song -- Transcription of the song from phonographic recording versus dictation direct from folk singer, player or Intermediary -- Transcription through graph notation -- The reader and the song -- Music notation as a bridge -- Three basic types of transcription illustrated -- Song-norm -- Majority usage -- Underlimits of amount of detail shown in notation, esp. the simpler singing styles -- The model tune as representative of the song as a whole -- The initial tune as a model tune -- The Composite tune -- The Transcriber and a changing oral tradition -- Nnotes on the songs and on manners of singing: Adherence to a dynamic level throughout the song -- Adherence to a dramatic level throughout the song -- Adherence to the tempo set at the beginning of the song -- Infrequency of long ritardandos from the beginning to the end of the song -- Infrequency of short stereotyped ritardandos at ends of phrases and stanzas -- Strict time and free singing styles -- Pulse and count -- Anticipation and delay of beat -- Simple and compound meter -- Metrical irregularities: prolongation and contraction of measure: Extended tone and the extended or inserted rest -- Underlimit of metrical irregularity shown in these notations -- Metrical irregularities -- Rest -- Phrase pattern: Number of measures to a phrase -- Number of phrases to the stanza -- Interstanzaic variation -- Manners of accommodating extra syllables of succeeding stanzas -- Tone attack and release -- Intonation -- Scale and mode -- Accompaniment -- The Songs -- List of unpublished transcriptions in the Lomax family archives -- Amazing grace / Pisgah transcriptions from George Pullen Jackson's White and Negro Spirituals -- Selected other writings on American folk music -- Pre-school children and American folk music (late 1940s?) …”
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Music in America : an anthology from the landing of the Pilgrims to the close of the Civil War, 1620-1865 /

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Down-east spirituals, and others : three hundred songs supplementary to the author's Spiritual folk-songs of early America /

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All over the map : true heroes of Texas music / by Corcoran, Michael, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…"The second time I done it on my own" -- Bobbie Nelson (Abbott). Amazing Grace -- Tom Wilson (Waco). A record producer is a psychoanalyst with rhythm -- Blind Willie Johnson (Temple). …”
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"Maximum clarity" and other writings on music / by Johnston, Ben

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Gracia & Gentil. Church hymn stories for our contemporary Christian lifestyles / by Mugerwa, Paul, 1983-

Table of Contents: “…DON'T FORGET THE SABBATH -- 9. Amazing Grace -- 10. How sweet the Name of Jesus sounds -- 11. …”
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