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Saturday, July 25, 2015

Nu hvilar hela jorden -- Paul Gerhardt's chorale "Nun ruhen alle Wälder," No. 442 in 1819 Svenska Psalmbok

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D R A F T Melody in 1819 psalmbook (text is No. 442) Sifferskrift in Johan Dillner's Melodier 186 Nu vilar folk och länder --...
Thursday, July 23, 2015

"Over the Waterfall," an old-time fiddle tune in D (mixolydian?) for our next session at Clayville Historic Stagecoach Stop

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Our next slow jam and song learning session of the Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music is from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 1, in the barn ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Picture and poem about Lars Paul Esbjorn in Korsbanneret 1880

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Korsbaneret: Kristlig Kalendar för 1880 . [Banner of the Cross: Christian Calendar for 1880] Chicago: Enander & Bohmans Förlag, 1879...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Ett stev på Psalmodikon: Swedish nyckelharpa player Gunnar F. plays traditional melodies on the psalmodikon -- and blows my mind!

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Hat tip to Nordiska Psalmodikonförbundet (NPsF) and my sister-in-law Marian Edmund-Paulson for telling me about this guy. He plays the psalm...
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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Shakin' up the Illinois State Museum -- add 1

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Text of a letter I just submitted to the Hon. Bruce Rauner, governor of Illinois: Recently I wrote urging you not to close the Illinois St...
Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Shakin' up Springfield, one constituent letter at a time

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Just makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside to know how much your opinion is valued! Last week I wrote Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner in oppo...
Friday, July 10, 2015

"Come ye sinners, poor and needy" and BEACH SPRING -- a shape-note folk hymn and Anglo-Celtic pentatonic tune for this week's Prairieland Strings session

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Last week Jim Harris, who facilitated the Prairieland Strings when we met on the Springfield College-Ursuline Academy campus, dropped by ou...
Saturday, July 04, 2015

"Eating Goober Peas" -- a Civil War novelty song for Prairieland Strings' jam session Tuesday

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Last week I was asked by the dulcimer club in Petersburg to tab out "Eating Goober Peas" in DAD tuning, and it's such a fun so...
Friday, July 03, 2015

Var hälsad, sköna morgonstund -- “All Hail to Thee O Blessed Morn” by Philipp Nicolai (and a cite to Wachet auf in 1819 psalmbook)

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Posted here so I don't have to keep looking it up: Nicolai's other chorale Wachet auf [Sleepers awake] is No. 496 in Wallin, melody...
Tuesday, June 30, 2015

"America the Beautiful" -- a song for our July 4 slow jam at Clayville Historic Site, with a YouTube video of a moving performance by Willie Nelson

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Blast email I sent out today to the mailing list for our Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music jam sessions. We meet next Saturday morning, Jul...
Sunday, June 28, 2015

In case you've always wondered! Here are the intervals of the chromatic C major scale and the traditional church modes -- in 19th century Swedish (1 of __)

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D R A F T First of ____ posts on Johan Dillner's explanation of the intervals of the 12-tone chromatic scale, the old church modes (ky...
Friday, June 26, 2015

President Obama, "Amazing Grace" and some thoughts on bending notes, melisma and the roots of American music

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This is probably going to be one of the more oddball bits of commentary on President Obama's powerful eulogy today at the funeral of t...
Tuesday, June 16, 2015

Link to video on Facebook of Din klara sol ... at First Baptist Church Moline, with comments and more links to background

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My sister-in-law Marian Edmund-Paulson shot a video Sunday when I demonstrated the Jenny Lind Chapel psalmodikon and taught an old Swedish...
Thursday, June 04, 2015

More on Jean Ritchie -- including a moving obituary in the Lexington (Ky.) Herald-Leader and a 2008 cover of "Pretty Saro" by Sam Amidon

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D R A F T 'Saro' from the Sam Amidon album 'All Is Well' -- released on Bedroom Community 2008. Video by Jeremy Blatter....
Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Jean Ritchie, Dec. 8, 1922-June 1, 2015

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An obituary and a reminiscence, followed by a Jean Ritchie song I hope to introduce at Saturday's jam session at Clayville Historic Stag...
Wednesday, May 27, 2015

"Again, Thy glorious sun doth rise" / Din klara sol går åter opp -- a Swedish psalm in the Augustana Synod's 1901 hymnal

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Over the summer, I demonstrated a 19th-century Nordic box zither called the psalmodikon, and taught the Swedish-American hymn "Again, T...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

Hallelujah Chorus with flash cards in Quinhagak, Alaska

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Quinhagak is a Native (Yup'ik) village on Kuskokwim Bay of the Bering Sea in western Alaska. Hallelujah Chorus - Quinhagak, Alaska ....
Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Going out to Clayville to play "Going Down to Cairo" (among other tunes) this weekend at Clayville's spring festival

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Blast email sent this afternoon to my Clayville Pioneer Academy of Music and Prairieland Strings lists. Hi everybody -- We're on the ...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Swedish-American liturgy of 1901, 1925 Augustana Synod hymnals

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AUGUSTANA HERITAGE ASSOCIATION GATHERING VIII Closing Worship - Jun 24, 2012 - at Gustavus Adolphus College. [This is basically the liturg...

Regina Fryxell's setting in the Service Book and Hymnal of 1958

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YouTube user Swedishlutheran https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClG50rvcBYrWQNTJPM-eOyA