Hogfiddle

NOTES ABOUT DULCIMERS
HISTORY, HYMNODY
AND ALL KINDS OF MUSIC

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About Me

Pete: I'm a retired English, journalism and cultural studies teacher at Springfield College in Illinois (acquired by Benedictine University and subsequently closed). I coordinate jam sessions for the "Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music" at Clayville Historic Site and the Prairieland Strings dulcimer club, and I sing in the choir and the contemporary praise team at Peace Lutheran Church in Springfield. On Hogfiddle I post links and video clips for our sessions and workshops on the mountain dulcimer (a.k.a. "hog fiddle"), as well as research notes on folklore and cultural studies, hymnody and traditional Anglo-Celtic and Scandinavian music. I also posted assignments and readings in my interdisciplinary humanities classes. The Mackerel Wrapper (now on hiatus), carried assignments and readings for my mass comm. students. I started teaching b/log when I chaired SCI-Benedictine's assessment committee, and reopened it as the privatization of public schools grew increasingly troubling and closer to home.

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Natkirken reaches out to unchurched 'seekers' in Copenhagen: 'We shall be shepherds to cats'

Springsteen, in Oslo for 'Wrecking Ball' tour, joins memorial to Norway's terror victims

Planxty Madam Maxwell - Turloch O'Carolan

'Til Ungdommen' [To Youth], a song by Norwegian poet Nordahl Grieg that became an unofficial anthem in the aftermath of Utøya

'Singing and Praying Bands' bring African American tradition to Common Ground on the Hill

Helligaandskirken's new CD and songbook w/ songs from Night Church - "Pilgrim: Songs for Prayer and Travel"

Phil Trier, 1823-2012

Prairieland Dulcimers - "Cherokee Shuffle" and "Crooked Ridge"

The Church's Desolation as a dulcimer tune

Benedictine spirituality -

DNA study suggests mixed racial origins of Melungeons in East Tennessee

"Old Ship of Zion" (The Happy Sailor)

"Early in the Morning" - in Slave Songs of the United States (1867)

"The Buffaloes" - a regimental song of the 10th Cavalry from the 1880s (and 1960s) - and snippets of camp life in Spanish-American War

"Ain't I Glad I Got Out of the Wilderness" - played by Michigan troops in Civil War

Old-time and Irish session links - the basics

"Life Let Us Cherish" / "Freut euch des Lebens"

"The Regular Army O" - Harrigan and Branham

"Rory O'Moore" / and a wonderful version of "March of the Kings of Laois" on TG4

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Natkirken reaches out to unchurched 'seekers' in Copenhagen: 'We shall be shepherds to cats'

Springsteen, in Oslo for 'Wrecking Ball' tour, joins memorial to Norway's terror victims

Planxty Madam Maxwell - Turloch O'Carolan

'Til Ungdommen' [To Youth], a song by Norwegian poet Nordahl Grieg that became an unofficial anthem in the aftermath of Utøya

'Singing and Praying Bands' bring African American tradition to Common Ground on the Hill

Helligaandskirken's new CD and songbook w/ songs from Night Church - "Pilgrim: Songs for Prayer and Travel"

Phil Trier, 1823-2012

Prairieland Dulcimers - "Cherokee Shuffle" and "Crooked Ridge"

The Church's Desolation as a dulcimer tune

Benedictine spirituality -

DNA study suggests mixed racial origins of Melungeons in East Tennessee

"Old Ship of Zion" (The Happy Sailor)

"Early in the Morning" - in Slave Songs of the United States (1867)

"The Buffaloes" - a regimental song of the 10th Cavalry from the 1880s (and 1960s) - and snippets of camp life in Spanish-American War

"Ain't I Glad I Got Out of the Wilderness" - played by Michigan troops in Civil War

Old-time and Irish session links - the basics

"Life Let Us Cherish" / "Freut euch des Leb­ens"

"The Regular Army O" - Harrigan and Branham

"Rory O'Moore" / and a wonderful version of "March of the Kings of Laois" on TG4

"Life Let Us Cherish" / "Freut euch des Lebens"