Re: "Toudai Mori"

Ross Klatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> "Father Dear Father Come Home With Me Now" can be heard at
> http://www.mindspring.com/~jogt/father.htm

Click on the title to hear the tune, not the dead link at the bottom.

> The two melodies are kissing cousins, not identical twins. 

Ah... Yet again I prove I have a cloth ear (and there are other reasons
why I can't stand to listen to this through to the end, but I won't go
into those here).

> One wonders if Henry Clay Work got his tune by adapting an 
> English folksong.  Perhaps the Japanese lyricist, Katsu 
> Yoshio, had heard the temperance tune but couldn't quite 
> put his finger on it; so he just recreated it as best he 
> could and called it an "English folksong."  
> 
> I agree with you that it sounds more like a hymn than 
> a folksong.  Of course, that doesn't prove anything, either.
> The hymn writers took melodic material from many sources--
> sometimes untouched, sometimes modified.  

Truenuff.

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