What is truly amazing is the matched set of
baroque accordians which presumably were the
basis for the Cajun accordion, the originals now at Tulane.
d
At 03:03 PM 2/18/2010, you wrote:
I doubt it. I was living in St. Louis at the time, so it was at least 15
years ago, and the Web was barely getting started...
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> I heard an interesting radio article some years ago on NPR about early
> jazz in New Orleans. Apparently, most of the band leaders at the time
> were German immigrants. Many (most?) of the early jazz musicians
> learned how to play from German bandmasters, which had a definite
> influence on the style.
> Guy
That's Wild!
I'd love to hear the broadcast.
Do you think it might be available for streaming on NPR's site?
Thanks Guy,
Tom
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> 5:32 PM To: [email protected]; wikla Subject: [LUTE] Re: Louisiana
> and the "Sun King", Louis XIV
>
> > just came to my mind that the relation between American blues and
> > French baroque perhaps is not at all a coincidence. Perhaps the real
> > swing in the form of inegalite, "un-equalness" of notes, of
> > performing music, really came from the French baroque music to the
> > "new world"?
> A very interesting question. Am I reading you correctly? Are you
> hypothesizing that the "swing" of American blues originates in the
> French "inegalité" ?
> I would suspect that it is the other way 'round. I believe the
> unique
> 12/8 swing feel of blues
> most likely comes from African dance rhythms. Their music and dance
> were the only ways they had of holding on to the culture they lost
> when they were ripped away from home and brought to North America as
> slaves. I doubt that many (if any) African slaves heard the music of
> aristocratic French society - certainly not enough to influence the
> music of an entire culture passed on via oral tradition. However, I
> do think it is plausible that French musicians, or dancing masters, or
> both, could have heard slave music in the Caribbean and incorporated
> elements into their music or dance upon return to France. African
> rhythms combined with fiddle tunes from Great Britain became American
> square dance music. The blues and jazz that grew out of New Orleans
> was profoundly influenced by immigrants who were former slaves from
> Haiti and Jamaica, and their descendents. I have attached a PDF
> article by Michael Ventura which goes into depth on this subject.
> I think all musicians should learn to dance. It's all about dance
> rhythms. One can't play a Galliard properly without knowing how to
> dance one. Bach's suites were all base on dance rhythms. There is
> great argument about how to interpret these, with one side saying he
> didn't intend them as dances at all and the other side saying the
> opposite. For a wonderful treatise on this read Anner Bylsma, "Bach
> the Fencing Master".
> http://www.bylsmafencing.com/
> Thanks, Arto, for a very interesting idea. I'll look forward to
> thoughts
> from the rest of the
> list.
> Tom
> Tom Draughon
> Heartistry Music
> http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html
> 714 9th Avenue West
> Ashland, WI 54806
> 715-682-9362
>
> > As perhaps many know, France happened to have certain influence
> > there in the eastern Norh America in the baroque times: see
> > Wikipedia
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Louisiana#French_exploration
> > _a nd_colonization_.281528.E2.80.931756.29
> >
> > And for ex. the name "Louisina" was given to an area of land by the
> > French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, who named a region
> > "Louisiana" to honor France's King Louis XIV in 1682. And that king
> > happened to be be also the king of those musicians who were on the
> > top of "inegalitee"... ;-)
> >
> > And remember what New Orleans is (was?) to the blues and jazz. And
> > it is (was?) an Orleans, anyhow.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Arto
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
>
> Tom Draughon
> Heartistry Music
> http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html
> 714 9th Avenue West
> Ashland, WI 54806
> 715-682-9362
>
> --
>
Tom Draughon
Heartistry Music
http://www.heartistry.com/artists/tom.html
714 9th Avenue West
Ashland, WI 54806
715-682-9362
