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Six Folk Songs of the Americas

2008· article· en· W323031359 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Singing · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicDiverse Musicological Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsStanzaSingingPianoHarmony (Music)LyricsOperaBartokMelodyUnisonMusicalFolk songFolk musicHarmony (color)ArtLiteratureHistoryPoetryVisual artsArt historyAcoustics
DOInot available

Abstract

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MABRY, GEORGE L., arr. (b. 1945). SIX FOLK SONGS OF THE AMERICAS. Medium high voice and piano. Roger Dean Publishing Company, 2002. Traditional keys/modes; B[musical flat]^sub 3^-G^sub 5^; Tess: M; regular meters; slow to moderate tempos; V/M, P/M; 38 pages. Medium high voice-mezzo soprano perhaps best. 4. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies. [duet] E[musical flat] major; B[musical flat]^sub 3^-G^sub 5^/B[musical flat]^sub 3^-D^sub 5^; Tess: mH/M; 4/4, Slowly and gently; V/M, P/M; 5 pages. New settings of American folk songs are always welcome, as singers of all levels enjoy exploring new interpretations of old songs. George Mabry has chosen four familiar American folk songs, one Canadian folk song, and one unfamiliar South American (Brazilian) folk song for this collection. All of the arrangements are quite different from those currently available, with the exception of He's Gone Away, the tune and harmonies of which are so familiar and well loved as to merit being kept close to what people expect to hear. Riddle Song is set quite simply in the first stanza with a melodic change only at the end. The second stanza takes the vocal line up a third, as though singing a harmony part, and the third stanza returns to the original melody, ending with a coda vocalized on Ah. The piano part supports the voice throughout and also spins out a countermelody much of the time. Come All Ye Fair and Tender Ladies, based on a nineteenth century American ballad, has quite a different melody from other arrangements. In addition, the text is somewhat different and uses a third stanza not commonly found. Setting the ballad as a duet is a nice touch. It seems as if two girls-or two older women-are giving this advice to a group of other fair and tender ladies. Perhaps the two have even been jilted by the same boy? In any case, they speak from experience. Lullaby to the Christ Child, translated from the Portuguese by Martha Williams and George L. Mabry, and in a minor key, is a lovely song in which the mother promises to keep the sleeping child safe though surrounded by the dark night. The melody is simple and haunting, and the piano part makes use of an opening motif in a descending pattern to create the mood. These notes are then spun out into other obbligato figures throughout the song. Blackbird's Courting Song, marked Playful, whimsical, is a clever setting of this jaunty song about birds seeking a mate. …

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.864
Threshold uncertainty score0.308

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Opus teacher head0.120
GPT teacher head0.237
Teacher spread0.117 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it