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Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes
Jeff Todd Titon
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Description for Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes
Hardback. Here is a detailed notation of over 200 Kentucky folk tunes, including "Bonaparte's Retreat", which was lifted, note-for-note by Aaron Copland for the "Hoedown" section of his ballet, "Rodeo". Many of the practitioners whose tunes are transcribed here were born before 1900. Num Pages: 256 pages, 23 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; AVGL; AVRL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 187 x 24. Weight in Grams: 802.
" For years fiddlers and folklorists have prized the old-time fiddle tunes from Kentucky. Many of the most outstanding country music artists hail from the state, including Bill Monroe, widely regarded as the founder of bluegrass music. Even Aaron Copland lifted, note-for-note, a Kentucky fiddler's performance of "Bonaparte's Retreat" for the "Hoedown" section of his ballet Rodeo. That tune and nearly 200 others are transcribed here, most for the first time. They are taken from recordings of Kentucky fiddlers, many of whom were born before 1900, practitioners of a style of playing now extremely rare. Jeff Todd Titon places the ... Read more
" For years fiddlers and folklorists have prized the old-time fiddle tunes from Kentucky. Many of the most outstanding country music artists hail from the state, including Bill Monroe, widely regarded as the founder of bluegrass music. Even Aaron Copland lifted, note-for-note, a Kentucky fiddler's performance of "Bonaparte's Retreat" for the "Hoedown" section of his ballet Rodeo. That tune and nearly 200 others are transcribed here, most for the first time. They are taken from recordings of Kentucky fiddlers, many of whom were born before 1900, practitioners of a style of playing now extremely rare. Jeff Todd Titon places the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813122007
SKU
V9780813122007
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-41
About Jeff Todd Titon
Jeff Todd Titon, professor of music and director of the Ph.D. program in ethnomusicology at Brown University, is the author of numerous books on American music, including Early Downhome Blues.
Reviews for Old-Time Kentucky Fiddle Tunes
An admirable encyclopedic digest of the lore of an important folk tradition...colorful and revealing. - Jim Birchfield