WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME

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1 WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME A Story of Six Centuries of Musical Evolution Part IV Jonathan C. Rappaport 2012, 2017

2 Let s Review Last session we Listened to Welsh variant, Dyffryn Clwyd (Yn Nyffryn Clwyd) and the Dutch version, Vannacht! Learned about the St. Paul s Steeple family of songs, all which use the passamezzo antico ground bass chord progression Studied the song family of the Three Crows, Billy Magee Magar (including one in French), and the Three Ravens Listened to numerous versions of the Three Ravens (Boston Camerata, Peter-Paul-Mary, Andreas Scholl-Countertenor, and Percy Grainger arrangement Listened to versions of the Scottish song, Twa Corbies Studied and listened to earlier songs related textually: Don in Yon Forest, the Corpus Cristi Carol and the Falcon Carol.

3 WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME Contemporary Music Settings in Popular, Jazz, Folk, Film Scores, and Classical Genres

4 Other Song Influenced by Johnny "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky: A Cowboy Legend" is a cowboy-styled country/western song written in 1948 by American songwriter, film and television actor Stan Jones. First 2 lines identical with When Johnny Comes Marching An old cowpoke went riding out one dark and windy day Upon a ridge he rested as he went along his way When all at once a mighty herd of red-eyed cows he saw A'plowin' through the ragged skies and up a cloudy draw Yi-pi-yi-ay, Yi-pi-yi-o Ghost riders in the sky Their brands were still on fire and their hooves were made of steel Their horns wuz black and shiny and their hot breaths he could feel A bolt of fear went through him as they thundered through the sky For he saw the riders comin' hard and he heard their mournful cry Yi-pi-yi-ay, Yi-pi-yi-o Ghost riders in the sky Burl Ives, Their faces gaunt, their eyes were blurred, and shirts all soaked with sweat They're ridin' hard to catch that herd but they ain't caught them yet They've got to ride forever in that range up in the sky On horses snortin' fire, as they ride on, hear their cry Yi-pi-yi-ay, Yi-pi-yi-o Ghost riders in the sky As the riders loped on by him, he heard one call his name "If you want to save your soul from hell a' ridin' on our range" "Then cowboy change your ways today or with us you will ride" "A-tryin' to catch the Devil's herd across these endless skies." Yi-pi-yi-ay, Yi-pi-yi-o Ghost riders in the sky Ghost riders in the sky

5 Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye Choral Arrangement Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye, Arranged by Alice Parker, Rockford Touring Choir, Mandy Mikita Scott, Director

6 When Johnny Comes Maching Home Choral Arrangement When Johnny Comes Marching Home Arranged by Fenno Heath (former director of the Yale Glee Club) Performed by the OSU Meistersingers Oregon State University Choirs Nov. 12, 2010 Concert

7 Die Hard with a Vengeance Film Score, written by Michael Arnold Kamen (April 15, 1948 November 18, 2003), American composer Kamen extensively arranged When Johnny Comes Marching Home for the soundtrack of Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995). The piece is a series of variations on a theme, using a full orchestra.

8 Organ Version Ben Middeldorp, on the organ of Tiel church, Netherlands.

9 Roy Harris ( ) Fascinated with When Johnny Comes Marching Home Wrote numerous arrangements for chorus, piano, and orchestra, culminating in his Folk Song Symphony Overture (for orchestra), 1935: Louisville Symphony When Johnny Comes Marching Home: for four-part chorus of mixed voices, a cappella / free choral paraphrase (1939). US Army Soldiers Chorus, Daniel F. Toven. From American Ballads II for Piano (1946). Richard Zimdars, pianist Welcome Party from Folk Song Symphony #4 (1939, rev 1942), Colorado Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Conductor: Marin Alsop.

10 Morton Gould ( ) Wrote American Salute in 1947, based upon When Johnny Comes Marching In. Many orchestral devices used by Gould were later copied by such film composers as John Williams. Recording of Utah Symphony Link for 1971 Boston Pops performance (a bit on the fast side):

11 Compare and Contrast Roy Harris: Folk Song Symphony, Movement # 7 Welcome Party Morton Gould: American Salute Section Description Section Description Intro Intro Theme Theme Bridge Var. 1 Var. 1 Var. 2 Var. 2 Var. 3 Var. 3 Var. 4 Var. 4 Var. 5 Var. 5 Bridge Var. 6 Var. 6 Coda

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13 George Crumb, b When Johnny Comes Marching Home #2 from The Winds of Destiny (American Songbook IV) (2004) The Winds of Destiny - its subtitle is Songs of Strife, Love, Mystery and Exultation -- is a cycle of American Civil War songs, folk songs and spirituals and the fourth of his seven-volume American Songbook. The arrangement of eight songs are for soprano, four percussionists who play 102 different instruments, and amplified piano. Most of the songs we think we know, but find out we don t. When Johnny Comes Marching Home and Go Tell it on the Mountain become potent minidramas. Crumb summons up the deafening silence of the battlefield at night, conjures the ghosts of the dead and brandishes the nightmares of the living. In the process he also manages percussion writing of extravagant beauty, if arresting strangeness. L.A Times Review, June 13, Orchestra 2001, James Freeman, Conductor; Barbara Ann Martin, Soprano OYFz4

14 Swinging with Johnny When Johnny Comes Marching Home The Andrews Sister, with Vic Schoen and his orchestra Arranged by Fred Wise and Dewey Bergman Probably recorded in the early 1940s

15 Jazzing up Johnny Glenn Miller Instrumental Version Glenn Miller Arrangement with vocal refrain (Tex Beneke, Marion Hutton, and The Modernaires), LTQ

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17 THE END! Jonathan Rappaport