The Ballad of Tom Dooley
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SKU: A0.982596
Composed by North Carolina traditonal folk tune. Arranged by J. William Greene. Folk. Octavo. 4 pages. J. William Greene #28025. Published by J. William Greene (A0.982596).This creative arrangement of a post-Civil War North Carolina folk tune exploits the "bending" of a melody around the beat, a common practice in folk music. While the beat is steady--though sometimes "stretched"--the tune occasionally "slips" behind or more rarely before the beat. When this happens the upper voices sometimes drop an initial hard consonant to avoid a stuttering effect. Singers of this ballad are encouraged to intensify this effect to greater or lesser degree according to their taste. Fermatas (as a momentary suspension of the beat) can be longer or shorter for the same reason. Dynamics should be derived from the text.
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