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“East Virginia”, like “The Cuckoo”, is a common folk song with complex roots. Some of the verses can be traced back to 17th century England, others can be found in other folk songs like “Man of Constant Sorrow”. This song has been performed over centuries by hundreds of artists, but seldom in Africa :)
One of the earliest printed version comes from Cecil Sharp’s collection of folk songs from the Appalachian mountains. In the mountains most musicians would accompany their performance of “East Virginia” with the 5-string banjo, tuned in the “saw-mill” tuning (gDGCD), which allows the tune to keep his modal ambiguity, somewhere between the major and the minor mode.
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16 сен 2024
