On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:43:37 -0800, Kevin Wampler
<wampler+pov### [at] uwashingtonedu> wrote:

>Jim Henderson wrote:
>> That's what I recall from a music history class I took years ago.  I 
>> might be thinking of something else (perhaps "Simple Gifts" from 
>> Appalachian Spring).
>
>That would make sense since it was definitely based on a shaker tune. 
>One of my favorite "folk" tunes to be honest (folk in quotes since it's 
>not all *that* old).  Copland's use of it is very nice too.
>
>It is interesting though that there'll occasionally be a classical tune 
>that I later learn actually originated in a folk song.


can be changed into a complex classical piece. :) I do like Copland's version.
There was also a fashion for composers to write variations of folk music in the
classical period. Irish and Scottish songs got a makeover from the likes of
Beethoven and Weber etc.


Regards
	Stephen

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