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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Olle i Skratthult -- miscellaneous links

"Cultural Hybridity Reconsidered: Religious Visual Culture and the Dutch Republic" by Els Stronks, Utrecht University

Misc. links re: Augustana synod, Augie -- including a bio of Anna Hoppe and a TOC for Hemlandssånger UPDATED x1 reference to Peter Johnson of 1925 hymnal committee

Clayville jam postponed -- and a couple of video clips that show different artists filling in the notes and swinging (syncopating) the melody of "Shortnin' Bread"

Clayville and Prairieland Strings tune for June -- "Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase"

More on Liebster Jesu … variant in 1819 Swedish psalmbook

Otto Malmberg -- & mp3 files of Swedish hummel player in 1980s

Pope Francis in Bethlehem UPDATED x1 footage in Manger Square and Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

"Fill-A Me Up" by Pepper Choplin

Latin American baroque, world music, etc.

Comparative lit scholar from Mauritius on creolization, Germanic languages, St. Augustine & other things that matter

"Creolization" in Oxford Dictionary of Psychology UPDATED x2 w/ links on Latin American choral music -- and book review on Alaska creole (kreol) history

Music for Clayville Spring Festival UPDATED x2

Norwegians off Broadway

"The World in Creolization" by Ulf Hannerz / new link to "Global Sounds and Local Brews" by Paul Rutten

Augustana Luther League, "Youth's Favorite Songs" -- bio of Claus August Wendell (co-editor of "Junior Hymnal")

Creolization, hybridity, cross-pollination, crossover and/or all of above: "Give Me Your Hand" / "Tabhair Dom do Lámh" / "Da Mihi Manum" / "Gje Meg Handa Di" UPDATED x1 w/ dulcimer tab

Swoops, slurs and melisma -- especially in ballads and folk hymnody

"The Vicar of Bray"

Two new tunes for Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music -- "River" and "Sumer Is Icumen In" (summer is a-coming in)

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Olle i Skratthult -- miscellaneous links

"Cultural Hybridity Reconsidered: Religious Visual Culture and the Dutch Republic" by Els Stronks, Utrecht University

Misc. links re: Augustana synod, Augie -- including a bio of Anna Hoppe and a TOC for Hemlandssånger ** UPDATED x1 ** reference to Peter Johnson of 1925 hymnal committee

Clayville jam postponed -- and a couple of video clips that show different artists filling in the notes and swinging (syncopating) the melody of "Shortnin' Bread"

Clayville and Prairieland Strings tune for June -- "Cumberland Mountain Deer Chase"

More on Liebster Jesu … variant in 1819 Swedish psalmbook

Otto Malmberg -- & mp3 files of Swedish hummel player in 1980s

Pope Francis in Bethlehem ** UPDATED x1 ** footage in Manger Square and Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

"Fill-A Me Up" by Pepper Choplin

Latin American baroque, world music, etc.

Comparative lit scholar from Mauritius on creolization, Germanic languages, St. Augustine & other things that matter

"Creolization" in Oxford Dictionary of Psychology ** UPDATED x2 ** w/ links on Latin American choral music -- and book review on Alaska creole (kreol) history

Music for Clayville Spring Festival ** UPDATED x2 **

Norwegians off Broadway

"The World in Creolization" by Ulf Hannerz / new link to "Global Sounds and Local Brews" by Paul Rutten

Augustana Luther League, "Youth's Favorite Songs" -- bio of Claus August Wendell (co-editor of "Junior Hymnal")

Creolization, hybridity, cross-pollination, crossover and/or all of above: "Give Me Your Hand" / "Tabhair Dom do Lámh" / "Da Mihi Manum" / "Gje Meg Handa Di" ** UPDATED x1 ** w/ dulcimer tab

Swoops, slurs and melisma -- especially in ballads and folk hymnody

"The Vicar of Bray"

Two new tunes for Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music -- "River" and "Sumer Is Icumen In" (summer is a-coming in)

Misc. links re: Augustana synod, Augie -- including a bio of Anna Hoppe and a TOC for Hemlandssånger UPDATED x1 reference to Peter Johnson of 1925 hymnal committee

Pope Francis in Bethlehem UPDATED x1 footage in Manger Square and Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem

"Creolization" in Oxford Dictionary of Psychology UPDATED x2 w/ links on Latin American choral music -- and book review on Alaska creole (kreol) history

Music for Clayville Spring Festival UPDATED x2

Creolization, hybridity, cross-pollination, crossover and/or all of above: "Give Me Your Hand" / "Tabhair Dom do Lámh" / "Da Mihi Manum" / "Gje Meg Handa Di" UPDATED x1 w/ dulcimer tab