Appalachia
HIS, I believe, is the title of a musical work. It is also the name sometimes given to a mountainous district — the Appalachian Mountains-of the United States, whose indigenous music was the latest subject in the Thomson-Glaysher series, "Britons All." The reason for its inclusion is that the local inhabitants, cut off from the world, have preserved much of the folk-song repertoire of their 17th Century ancestors; and many English and Scottish ballads — "Barbara Allen," "Far Have I Travelled and Much Have I Seen," that classic treatment of marital infidelity’ among them -have an American version, set to the ‘banjo. These extraordinary and fascinating survivals have much or all of the unique quality of the old ballads and have occupied many an American folksong student. They have also influenced miore formal music; and in this connection I wish to fiy a kite. I once heard a collection of Appalachian ballad-music -it was the incidental music to.a film---in which one phrase, repeated as a re-frain-struck my ignorant ear as very like a passage in Dvorak’s "Humoresque." Can anyone say whether this work is known consciously to have been modelled on American songs, in the manner of the New World Symphony?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 358, 3 May 1946, Page 15
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200Appalachia New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 358, 3 May 1946, Page 15
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