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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"American Folk music"”.
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Buttitta's Folk Opera Diggin' the Ring: The Ring Cycle, Songs of Protest, and the American Left
… loosely based on Wagner's Ring Cycle. Their folk opera, Diggin' the Ring, borrowed the narrative structure of the Ring Cycle. Buttitta replaced Wagner's characters with an all-black, mundane cast. Despite forty years of revisions and numerous unsuccessful attempts to produce the opera, …
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Sinfonietta for wind ensemble augmented with string quartet
… create dramatic tension. Sinfonietta relies upon American folk music as a point of departure along with the unique sound combinations available with this instrumentation. The pentatonic melodies, open harmonic intervals, and regular phrase structure serve as building blocks for the music. The …
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An Omnivorous Ear: The Creative Practice of Field Recording
… working definitions of field recording in music studies, anthropology, and communications. I examine recording methodologies through the late 19th and 20th centuries as a documentary technique, a tool for composition, and an art object in the United States of America and Canada from the …