Practical Music

timothy myrick has died of a rattlesnake bite

Working class folk songs

Barbara Allan, The Foggy Dew, Scarborough Fair

Strophic form

Chorus repeats between verses

Peddlers and hawkers

People who sold small items

Broadside ballads

Printed versions of ballads

Ballads

Could be real or legendary stories, spread orally, used for a practical purpose

American ballads

Discussed work and labor, focused on truth

British ballads

Included fantasy, war, and drama, extravagance, and romanticization

The Spirit of '76

A painting by Archibald Willard depicting a military field band

American bands

Adopted European traditions, used fifes, drums, and trumpets; one drummer, one fife for every seventy-six men in the unit

Conneticut bands

Two drummers and two fifes each company; three drummers and three fifes if there were more than 100 men

Fife

A small high pitched flute

The 60th Foot

Royal American Regiment band

Harmoniemusik

English bands and ensembles

Band leaders

Drum major, fife major

Cambridge Regiment

Regiment led by George Washington

Field music

Conveyed military commands and kept a marching beat

Duty calls

The term given to military field music signals

Espirit de corps

Spirit of the group

Parole

A two-word military password

Artemas Ward's parole

"Martial" and "music"

Rudiments

Drum patterns

Programmatic

Concept-based music collections

Enslaved musicians

Often extremely skilled musicians who were forced to play music pieces of their enslaver's choosing

Act of 1740

South Carolinan Act that penalized the education of slaves with one hundred pounds

Work songs

Coordinated movements, lifted morale, and encouraged slow workers to hurry

Field Call structure

Call, sign, field cry, field call, field holler

Vocables

Syllables with no literal meaning