Charlie Rutlage - Charles Ives

What is the ranking of horseback riding in terms of injuries that participants get and established by the National Safety Council?

Top 20

How many horseback riders had injuries in 2023?

40,000

What percentage of riders in sports will experience an injury at some point?

81%

What percentage of riders in sports will experience a serious injury?

21%

How long is the average hospitalization for adults?

5-6 days

What sports are the most common cause of sports-related traumatic brain injury in adults?

Equestrian sports

What percentage do inexperienced riders account for of the incidents that involve livestock according to data from hospitals in Austin, Texas?

38%

What percentage do ranchers and cowboys account for of the incidents that involve livestock according to data from hospitals in Austin, Texas?

43%

What is Dominick John O’ Malley’s first poem?

To the Memory of Wiley Collins

What is To the Memory of Wiley Collins poem about?

Chuckwagon cook killed by lightning

Where is Charles Rutledge from?

Texas cowboy

What ranch (organization)? was Charles Rutledge looking after in Montana?

X.I.T.

In 1890, how many acres of range land did X.I.T. lease out between the Yellowstone and Missouri Rivers?

2 million acres

How many miles did someone gallop to try to save Rutledge after he fell off his horse?

60 miles

What city did the savior try to gallop to in order to get a doctor for Rutledge?

Miles City, Montana

What journal was the poem “A Cowboy’s Death” published in?

Stock Grower’s Journal

When was “A Cowboy’s Death” published?

July 11, 1891

Who signed the poem “A Cowboy’s Death”?

D.J.W.

Who was Dominick John O Malley’s stepfather?

Charles H. White

What publication did John A. Lomax publish a version of “A Cowboy’s Death” in?

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads

How was Charles Rutledge’s last name spelled in the poem version by John A. Lomax?

Rutlage

When did John A. Lomax discover the poem’s true authorship?

1938

What was the name of the melody that the poem “A Cowboy’s Death” by O’Malley was written for?

The Lakes of Pontchartrain

Why did “A Cowboy’s Death” enter “oral tradition” so quickly?

The melody was not published alongside it

What is an example of the different lyrics that ] Ina Sires’s 1928 transcription has compared to the original?

“Another good cow puncher” changed into “Another gallant cowboy”

Who transcribed “The Lakes of Pontchartrain” ?

David Cohen

What 1968 collection is “The Lakes of Pontchartrain” transcribed in?

Songs of the American West

Who sings “The Lakes of Pontchartrain” for David Cohen’s transcription?

Louisiana Honeydrippers

Who is the composer of the Charlie Rutlage song that is our selection?

Charles Ives

What collection did Charles Ives publish his composition of Charlie Rutlage?

114 Songs

How does the Charlie Rutlage song begin?

Piano Ostinato of “boom-chick” accompaniment and alternating block chords

When does the Charles Ives’s version of Charlie Rutlage stop resembling like a folk performance in the song?

Second Verse

What is a surprise for the vocalist in Charles Ives’s version of Charlie Rutlage?

Signer only has rhythmic notation for guidance

What is the surprise that the pianist gets in Charles Ives’s version of Charlie Rutlage?

Vocal line to mimic cowboy shouts

How does Charles Ives word-paint the scene of the cutting horse falling onto Charlie?

Series of cluster-chords

What is a cluster chord also called?

Tone cluster

What is a cluster chord?

Harmony filled with adjacent seconds

How does Charles Ives want the pianist to play the cluster chord?

Using fists at a FFFF volume