19th century pop music
-Church hymns
-Classical entertainment
-used instruments from home
-Pop entertainment
-churches, schools, town halls
-Travelling units
-rural areas did not have permanent entertainment
-communities would save up money to experience music they wouldn’t have
seen otherwise
-minstrel shows: white and black companies
-Stephen Foster (1826-1864)
-one of the most important composers in the nineteenth century
-exclusively composed and published music for a living
-Irish, Scottish, English traditions influenced style
-Minstrel shows
-first music regarded as distinctively American
-white performers darkened their faces
-successful from mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century
-hoity-toity accents, dancing style, facial gestures
-The Parlor song
-piano
-guitar
-Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (pg. 54)
A
Main Melody
Verse 1 (above)
Interlude
Verse 2 (different lyrics)
Verse 3
A
Same Melody with
different lyrics
B
New Melody
A
Main Melody