Tag: sacred harp
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Charts and graphs, oh my!
Charts and graphs, oh my! Being a mathematically-inclined person, I’m always interested in the stories one can tease out of data… Now that we’ve got the book mostly mapped out, I made a chart displaying the first publication dates of the songs. Each dot in the chart represents a song. Given that we started with…
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Meter, Rhythm, and the Most Awkward Farewell
Here’s a sequel to my previous post on tune families. After reading Charles Seeger’s article ”Versions and variants of the tunes of ‘Barbara Allen,’” I was intrigued by the idea of adding rhythm to my analysis of tune families. In this post, I’m going to explore the contribution of rhythm to a tune’s identity. Since…