Schottisches and scars: Finding the unity in music during the division of the Civil War

History, United States;Dance;Music

Wharton, Kendra Ann ; Bailey, Walter B.

Rice University

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美国|英语

来源: Rice University digital scholarship archive

【 摘 要 】

In this paper, I explore the role of social dance music, particularly the schottische, during the Civil War to address the issue of musical unity during cultural division. My research focused on a set of sixteen schottisches from Duke University;;s Historical American Sheet Music Project. I analyzed these pieces searching for the rhythmic, melodic, harmonic, and structural conventions associated with the schottische. What I found is that the conventions attached to the dance form hold true, regardless of the location of the publisher or the political ideology of the composer.