{"id":484,"date":"2016-01-25T15:09:08","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/?page_id=484"},"modified":"2016-09-26T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T09:17:07","slug":"postlude","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethanpartsongs.nl\/wordpress\/contents-summaries\/three-elizabethan-partsongs\/part-1-complete\/postlude\/","title":{"rendered":"postlude to part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>a challenge to the reader<\/em><\/p>\n

Turning this music into an \u2018Elizabethan Song in Three Parts\u2019 is only a dull but necessary procedure to prepare the ground for the second part of this triplet which is headed: \u2018Adults Only\u2019. Before moving on to\u00a0\u201cThe Art of Ralph Vaughan Williams-Part 2\u201d<\/em>, all puzzle-enthousiasts amongst my audience are invited to explain its title from the structure of\u00a0O Mistress Mine<\/em>. Please keep in mind that \u2018structure\u2019 is about the poem\u2019s construction; so study the design rather than the text. Which contains several matching words anyway. There is no reward but the challenge of testing your analytic powers on the visual crack in the most tricky crossword from four centuries.<\/p>\n

As a preparation, less difficult alternative, or maybe just as a hint, I recommend you to find out what exactly unites the seemingly haphazard selection from Copland\u2019s ten\u00a0\u2018Old American Songs\u2019<\/em>. You are welcome to post your solution to this problem, but why should you bother? There is no reward.<\/p>\n

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Go to part 2<\/a>\u00a0– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –<\/span>\u00a0back to the previous chapter<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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FIVE OLD AMERICAN SONGS; a cycle taken from Aaron Copland<\/p>\n

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I
\nThe Boatmen\u2019s dance<\/strong>
\nMinstrel Song \u2013 1848<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

High row the boatmen row,
\nFloatin\u2019 down the river the Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n

The boatmen dance, the boatmen sing,
\nThe boatmen up to everything.
\nAnd when the boatmen gets on shore,
\nHe spends his cash and works for more.
\nThen dance the boatmen dance,
\nO dance all night \u2018til broad daylight
\nAnd go home with the gals in the mornin\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

High row the boatmen row,
\nFloatin\u2019 down the river the Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n

I went on board the other day
\nTo see what the boatmen had to say.
\nThen I let my passion loose,
\nAnd they cram me in the callaboose.
\nO dance the boatmen dance,
\nO dance all night \u2018til broad daylight
\nAnd go home with the gals in the mornin\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

High row the boatmen row,
\nFloatin\u2019 down the river the Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n

The boatman is a thrifty man,
\nThere\u2019s none can do as the boatman can.
\nI never see a pretty gal in my life,
\nBut that she was a boatman\u2019s wife.
\nO dance the boatmen dance,
\nO dance all night \u2018til broad daylight
\nAnd go home with the gals in the mornin\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

High row the boatmen row,
\nFloatin\u2019 down the river the Ohio.<\/span><\/p>\n

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II<\/strong>
\nThe little horses<\/strong>
\nlullaby<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Hush you bye, don\u2019t you cry,
\nGo to sleepy little baby.
\nWhen you wake, you shall have
\nAll the pretty little horses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Blacks and bays, dapples and grays,
\nCoach and sixa little horses.\u2013<\/span><\/p>\n

Hush you bye, don\u2019t you cry,
\nGo to sleepy little baby.
\nWhen you wake, you\u2019ll have sweet cake
\nAnd all the pretty little horses.<\/span><\/p>\n

A brown and a gray and a black and a bay
\nCoach and sixa little horses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hush you bye, don\u2019t you cry,
\nOh you pretty little baby.
\nGo to sleepy little baby,
\nOh you pretty little baby.<\/span><\/p>\n

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III<\/strong>
\nZion\u2019s walls<\/strong>
\nrevivalist song<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Come fathers and mothers,
\nCome sisters and brothers, come.
\nJoin us in singing the praises of Zion.<\/span><\/p>\n

O fathers don\u2019t you feel determined
\nTo meet within the walls of Zion,
\nWe\u2019ll shout and go round the walls of Zion.<\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/p>\n

.<\/span>IV<\/strong>
\nAt the river<\/strong>
\nHymn tune<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Shall we gather by the river,
\nWhere bright angelfeet have trod,
\nWith its crystal tide forever
\nFlowing by the throne of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes we\u2019ll gather by the river,
\nThe beautifull, the beautifull river.
\nGather with the saints by the river
\nThat flows by the throne of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

Soon we\u2019ll reach the shining river,
\nSoon our pilgrimage will cease.
\nSoon our happy harts will quiver
\nWith the melody of peace.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yes we\u2019ll gather by the river,
\nThe beautifull, the beautifull river.
\nGather with the saints by the river
\nThat flows by the throne of God.<\/span><\/p>\n

—<\/span><\/p>\n

V<\/strong>
\nChing-a-ring chaw<\/strong>
\nMinstrel song<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Ching-a-ring-a-ring ching ching,
\nHoa ding-a-ding kum larkee,
\nChing-a-ring-a-ring ching ching,
\nHoa ding kum larkee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brothers gather round,
\nListen to the story,
\n\u2018Bout the promised land,
\nAn\u2019 the promised glory.<\/span><\/p>\n

You don\u2019 need to fear,
\nIf you have no money,
\nYou don\u2019 need\u00a0 none there,
\nTo buy you milk and honey.<\/span><\/p>\n

There you\u2019ll ride in style,
\nCoach with four white horses,
\nThere you\u2019re evenin\u2019 meal,
\nHas one two three four courses.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ching-a-ring-a-ring ching ching,
\nHoa ding-a-ding kum larkee,
\nChing-a-ring-a-ring ching ching,
\nHoa ding kum larkee.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nights we all will dance,
\nTo the harp and fiddle,
\nWaltz and jigg and prance,
\n\u201cCast down on the middle.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen the mornin\u2019 comes,
\nAll with grand and splendor,
\nStand out in the sun,
\nAnd hear the holy thunder.<\/span><\/p>\n

Brothers hear me out,
\nThe Promised Land is comin\u2019,
\nDance and sing and shout,
\nI hear them harps astrummin\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ching-a-ring ching ching,
\nChing-a-ring ching ching,
\nChing-a-ring-a, ching-a-ring-a
\nRing ching ching ching chaw.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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