Appalachian Ballads

      

After researching Appalachian ballads I found that the immigrants from English, Ireland, and Scotland came to the Appalachian and brought with them the musical traditions of there countries. The traditions consist of unaccompanied narratives and dance music. One of the most popular iconic symbol of the Appalachian culture was the bang, which was brought over to the region by African-American slaves in the 18th century. One section that stood out the most in Sharps English Folk Songs was the part where the author says that no two singers sang the same song the same, and may be interpreted in two ways. Sharp goes into the difference between a ballad and a song. The ballad is a narrative song. Also have more history behind them. The song on the other hand is way more emotional and passionate. 

     

    

NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC

        Lornell characterized Native American Music much more then if you were to look at Wikipedia. Lornell goes into much detail about many different little things added up to make up what Native American Music really is and where it came from. He goes by first stating its monophonic and not monolithic, meaning there are more then one vocalist and occasionally they will sing in octaves. Lornell then goes in more depth about how the words are nonsense syllables such as "he", "wi", "yo". Such as gibberish. The difference between how Wikipedia and Lornell described the six different regional groups of Native American Music is not much. Wikipedia explained how Bruno Nettle separated the groups into the Great Basin, Plains-Pueblo, Northwest Coast, California-Yuman, Athabascan, and the Eastern group. Lornell separates the different groups into the Plains, East Coast, Southwest and Cali, Great Basin, Northwest coast, and the North. Not many differences from the two different sources but just enough to be compared. I trusted Lornell notes way more then Wikipedia because Wiki is a site that anyone online can change and alter the information. 

       Densmore believes that the method of collecting the Sioux songs was similar to that used with the Chippewa work. Songs were recorded by phonograph. The headings of the tables of analysis don't change. They add a + and a - for pitch. "Five-toned scales" were frequently mentioned in the descriptive analysis. Many different little steps are taken for Densmore's methods for collecting the songs of Teton Sioux.