Excerts from Dace Card 7 Daces for iao y Kare Amrhei Coyright 007 Kare Amada Amrhei / Hay Lemo Music ulishig
Dace Card Total Timig: 0 Miutes Dace Card is a set of seve daces for iao Each dace takes its isiratio ad structure from a dace style that either origiated i America or emigrated here Some of my daces cleave fairly closely to the soud ad structure, meter ad mood of their mother daces Others travel far from their origis, keeig the essetial rhythmic or metrical asects of the mother daces, ut soudig like somethig else altogether Cosolatio Rag Dedicated to Bruce Alle Hardy, iao ad clariet teacher, ad fried The ragtime style at its most asic meas music with a sycoated (or ragged) tue over a solid, march-like accomaimet, usually i / meter Most commoly, the structure of a rag is: AABBACC or AABBCCDD or AABBCCA, with each letter corresodig to a idividual 1-measure theme, ad each theme divided ito -measure hrases Ragtime was most oular from aroud 1900-1918 ad is cosidered to e the first distictly America musical gere The structure of my Cosolatio Rag is: Itroductio-A-B-Itro'-C-D-Itro-A-B-C-Coda, where D is a cao ad the Coda is a variatio o the Itroductio I christeed this dace Cosolatio Rag ecause it was my third, ad fially successful, attemt at writig a rag the revious two efforts (Slash Rag ad Hesitatio Rag) failig to e "ragged" eough ad edig u far too comlex A Certai Way to Beguie Dedicated to racesca Moroe, a fried The eguie has its 19th cetury origis i the meldig of olka with Domiica folk dace, evolvig from a Saish olero rhythm ito a slow ad sesual ruma, ad comig to the Uited States i the early decades of the 0th cetury from the Cariea islads of Guadeloue ad Martiique It foud its rief oularity i the mid-190s ad today is rememered i the US oly ecause of Cole orter's 195 sog Begi the Beguie Ideed, my ow efforts at researchig the style foud little reward eyod the Cole orter classic My eguie (from the rech word for flirtatio) does't stray far from the rhythmic structure ad romace (thik alm trees swayig i the moolight) of the eguie model A Certai Way to Beguie cosists of a two-measure itroductio, a A theme, B theme, four-measure trasitio ased o the itroductio, A theme agai (this time legtheed to / time), C theme, ad a retur to the egiig, A theme, B theme, ad coclusio The characteristic slow-quick-quick rhythm occurs i three layers: melody that alterates etwee a solid ad a sycoated ulse, sycoated middle voice wherei the secod-half of each measure fids the rhythmic ulse quickeig, ad a ass lie emhasizig the / meter while also reiforcig the "quickeig" asect through its deedale half ote - quarter ote - quarter ote rhythm Mister Charlesto Butler Dedicated to Charles Butler, a fried ad the oldest fried of my husad, Stehe The Charlesto rhythm first ecame oular with ames ohso's 19 tue of the same ame, which i tur took its title from the city i South Carolia Today, the Charlesto eitomizes the era kow as the Roarig '0s, with its seakeasies, gagsters, molls, ad flaers My goal with my ow Charlesto was to tur u the electricity o the eo dazzle of the azz age Mister Charlesto Butler uses the sycoated Charlesto rhythm ad adds the right dissoace of itoality The hrases i two simultaeous keys are relieved y hrases i a sigle key, aleit siced with azzy harmoies My Charlesto's overall structure is A-B-A, with the A sectio further divided ito exositio ad develomet su- sectios ad the B sectio itself i a--a form
Lemo Meregue Lullay Dedicated to Mario A Garcia Briseño, a fried Effectively sythesizig the Euroea miuet with the rhythms of Africa, the atioal dace of the Domiica Reulic has two legeds exlaiig its origis The first holds that the meregue's drag ste origiated with slaves laorig o sugar latatios, their legs heavy with iro maacles The secod tells of the war hero come home to fid his village celeratig his retur with a lim-footed dace to hoor his wouded leg I Lemo Meregue Lullay, the meregue rhythm aears as somethig of a memory or the hushed soud of a distat celeratio, while a getle lullay melody is sug Here, the soud of the meregue has vaished; oly its loddig ass drum ulse ad tamora ad accordio rolls remai as the liltig, almost Schuertia tue eckos the weary dacer to slee Ruma i ives As with Lemo Meregue Lullay, my Ruma i ives makes use of a asic Africa rhythm, while soudig etirely ulike its rogeitor, i this case the Cua ruma I've varied the clave rhythm of five eats withi a ulse of eight (two / measures with eats o 1,, ad i measure oe ad eats o ad i measure two) y creatig five rhythmic-melodic uits of eighth otes that reeat every two measures (o eats 1,, ad, ad ad ) ive of these uits occur withi each sectio, ad there are five sectios, for a total of fifty measures The right-had melody is varied ad develoed over the five sectios, makig Ruma i ives essetially a assacaglia Mycklorf's olly (Reel Semi-Quadrille) My husad suggested that I write a square dace for the sixth dace i this set, so I did a little research ad leared that square dacig is traditioally erformed to 18th ad 19th cetury folk music: igs, reels, coutry daces, ad quadrilles I thought it would e fu to write a reel that holds retty strictly to the form without soudig like The Sailor's Horie (rememer oeye the Sailor) ad which serves as the asis for a quadrille A reel is very similar to a horie, ut has more eve eats, ad tyically cosists of two sectios of eight measures each, with each / or / sectio evely divided ito two questio-ad-aswer hrases A quadrille is also comrised of eight-measure themes, some i / time ad some i /8 Bor i the 100s, quadrille (meaig oth four ad square) ega as a military arade for four horseme Its oularity was such that two-legged dacers took to it i the 18th ad early 19th ceturies The form is quite regimeted (o surrise) ad rather log-wided: 1 Le atalo (a air of trousers) three themes i / or /8 time arraged i the sequece ABACA L'été (summer) /, ABBA La oule (he) /8, measure itroductio followed y ABACABA Otioal: Tréis (amed for the dace master Treitz) /, ABBA 5 La astourelle (sheherd girl) /, ABCBA iale /, measure itroductio followed y AABBAA Adherig strictly to such a structure would have yielded a very log ad reetitive dace, so I chose to use half of the form (movemets 1,, ad 5) ad etitled each cotiuous movemet A New air of Trousers, Hay He, ad The Sheherdess Tries the Trousers I also used the ABACA form for Hay He, rather tha the ramlig ABACABA structure urthermore, the B ad C sectios of Hay He ad The Sheherdess Tries the Trousers are variatios o the B ad C sectios of A New air of Trousers, while the A sectios (the reel metioed aove) of the first ad last movemets are idetical ad the Hay He gets her ow he-like A theme Yee-hah! Waltz for Oe Dedicated to Costace Amrhei (i memory of ames Warre Amrhei, her husad of 1 years) The fial dace (a eilogue really) i Dace Card is a very slow Waltz for Oe, writte i memory of my father- i-law I have't much to say aout this very America, elegiac waltz hoefully it will seak for me ad e leasig to the gracious widow of a getle, geerous ma
Duratio: ½ Miutes iao» to Bruce Alle Hardy Cosolatio Rag Kare Amrhei (ASCA) 1 19 5 Coyright 00 Kare Amada Amrhei / Hay Lemo Music ulishig
Duratio: ½ Miutes iao» * Exressively * The reetitio is otioal to racesca Moroe A Certai Way to Beguie Kare Amrhei (ASCA) 5 9 Ó 1 17 Ó d Time to Coda Coyright 007 Kare Amada Amrhei / Hay Lemo Music ulishig
Duratio: ½ Miutes iao» ª - ºº to Charles Butler Mister Charlesto Butler Kare Amrhei (ASCA) w w 1 0 w Ó Coyright 007 Kare Amada Amrhei / Hay Lemo Music ulishig
Duratio: ½ Miutes iao» Tederly to Mario A Garcia Briseño Lemo Meregue Lullay Kare Amrhei (ASCA) 5 9 1 17 Coyright 007 Kare Amada Amrhei / Hay Lemo Music ulishig
Duratio: 1¾ Miutes iao» º Ruma i ives Kare Amrhei (ASCA) f w 11 1 1 w Coyright 007 Kare Amada Amrhei / Hay Lemo Music ulishig
Duratio: ¼ Miutes iao» º A New air of Trousers Brisk Mycklorf's olly (Reel Semi-Quadrille) Kare Amrhei (ASCA) 8 1 0» 8 8» º slowig U U 8 8 Coyright 007 Kare Amada Amrhei / Hay Lemo Music ulishig
9 1 0 Duratio: ½ Miutes iao π π Very Exressively» a temo to Costace Amrhei i memory of ames Warre Amrhei, her husad of sixty-oe years Waltz for Oe π Kare Amrhei (ASCA) slowig Coyright 007 Kare Amada Amrhei / Hay Lemo Music ulishig 15-1 March 007