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Thread #9762 Message #64178
Posted By: Night Owl
19-Mar-99 - 12:14 AM
Thread Name: Several versions of the same song
Subject: RE: Several versions of the same song
Very interested in this thread as I thoroughly enjoy learning how different songs and children's games develop regional character and adaptions. Also attended a Marie Rhines concert years ago in which she took "folk" songs and children's game songs from various geographical places and showed their development into, not only classical works, but a wide variey of different types of music. I have since been fascinated by the fact that, while individual notes can be exactly the same, with different rhythms and words they become completely "new" songs (as in the Woody Guthrie thread).