Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Music Examples
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Foreword: A Few Personal Words about Ruth Crawford Seeger’s The Music of American Folk Song
- Foreword
- Historical Introduction: The Salvation of Writing Things Down
- Editor’s Introduction
- Abbreviations
- The Music of American Folk Song
- Editor’s Endnotes
- Appendix 1 Songs Referred to in The Music of American Folk Song
- Appendix 2 List of Transcriptions in the Lomax Family Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
- Appendix 3 Amazing Grace/Pisgah Transcription
- Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music
- Index of Songs
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Foreword
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 March 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Music Examples
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Foreword: A Few Personal Words about Ruth Crawford Seeger’s The Music of American Folk Song
- Foreword
- Historical Introduction: The Salvation of Writing Things Down
- Editor’s Introduction
- Abbreviations
- The Music of American Folk Song
- Editor’s Endnotes
- Appendix 1 Songs Referred to in The Music of American Folk Song
- Appendix 2 List of Transcriptions in the Lomax Family Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
- Appendix 3 Amazing Grace/Pisgah Transcription
- Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music
- Index of Songs
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
I was 11 or 12 when I first met Ruth Crawford, who became my stepmother a couple years later. She seemed to me the most honest person I had ever met in all my life.
One of my last memories of her was her leaning against a door jamb listening with me to a short piece of Japanese music which was especially eloquent because of its silences at various points.
The world lost a truly great musician when she died so young, so full of promise.
August 13, 1999
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- The Music of American Folk SongAnd Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music, pp. xvPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2001