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was necessary to sing for them first. Then, forgetting their reserve, they would seek to correct me in some detail and present we had what we had sought, tho it sometimes required much persuasion to make them repeat a melody or even a phrase. Our first song we obtained from a little girl of fourteen, who, however, was so shy about singing that she consented to do it only on condition that we let her withdraw to the end of a dark hall, where she could not be seen.
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had become a well-known artist. The elder sister donated these materials to
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fascinating of the many phases of collecting is the sudden blooming of a seemingly barren field. On making my preliminary inquiries at Percé I should have feared to return empty-handed from my eager quest, had I not known the elusiveness of the folk-song singer. Some of the best songs were obtained from people who, at first, professed utter ignorance of the subject.
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Kentucky field trip. Perhaps misprints are present in the sources.
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Kentucky in 1915, which would be a year before the fieldwork took place; no other sources have been found suggesting that Wyman visited Kentucky in 1915. Another puzzle is that Seeger (1958:47), describing Wyman's instrument, says that
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Loraine Wyman nous fera saisir jusqu’à quel point l’art peut métamorphoser une mélodie rustique tout en conservant son contour original. Bien qu’Américaine de naissance, Miss Wyman représente ici le style et le goût français. La distinction, la finesse
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reported on 2 July 1898 that various "eminent artists in New York have made an appeal for donations to the three destitute children of Mrs. Julie Wyman, who is said to be penniless and hopelessly ill." A variety of newspapers, all in the West, carried a report in 1898 that Julie Wyman had gone insane
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Loraine Wyman left a substantial scholarly library, "an extensive collection of books about folk music and folklore mostly of the
British Isles, the United States and France." On her death the collection, along with other materials, passed to her older sister Florence Wyman Ivins, who in the meantime
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had gathered (though not published) a fairly extensive body of material. Previously, Wyman had sung on stage only folksongs gathered by others, mostly French and
British, and it is only natural that she would develop an interest in field work in such a fertile territory, fieldwork whose results would
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America, settling in New York. Probably around this time she studied with a leading New York voice teacher, Frida Ashforth. By the following year, she had embarked on a concert career, in which she sang a mixture of folksongs of various origin to urban audiences. Stamler
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Amid all this disruption, Loraine Wyman grew to adulthood, mostly in Paris. She learned the French language and developed a sense of connection to France and its people—manifested in her later fundraising efforts during the First World War (see below). She also took up singing, and is reported by one
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Houghton indicates that Wyman donated the material in 1931. It is described thus: "117 leaves ; 28 cm. + 2 letters (in 2 v.) ... typescript containing 59 songs, 10 with music ... with 2 autograph ms. letters from Wyman to George Lyman Kittredge dated 16 Aug. and 4
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and the assembled members of the Supreme Court. In 1914, she performed in London and Paris, taking the opportunity to research more folk song material in "old monasteries and libraries" there. Later that year, she went to perform in Chicago and Evanston, where she had not been since her childhood; a
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Wyman's childhood was not always serene. After 1891, her parents lived separately, with Julie taking Loraine and Florence to Paris to live, leaving Caroline with the father. In 1896 Walter Wyman obtained a divorce from his wife on grounds of adultery (he also charged her with addiction to alcohol).
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Wyman's concertizing continued throughout the second half of the 1910s and first half of the 1920s, often in performances for charitable causes put on by the upper stratum of New York City society. During the First World War, these included benefits for the soldiers of the French Army, as well as
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Miss Loraine Wyman gave a costume ballade recital last night before the members of the Alliance Francaise and their friends ... It is doubtful if the audience, no matter what the musical experience of its individuals may have been, has received more enjoyment than was given with a liberal hand by
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remarks that the couple "made their home in the Edwin E. Brown mansion, and maintained there a lavish establishment of servants, horses, and carriages." They were prominent in Evanston social circles. The Wymans had three children, all daughters: Florence (born 25 January 1881), Caroline (born 28
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of the southern Appalachian mountains, where the local population—at the time quite geographically isolated—had conserved and evolved a centuries-long heritage of melody and lyrics by oral transmission across generations. Already, several state folklore societies had formed to collect and record
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Miss Loraine Wyman makes us realize to what extent a rustic melody can be transformed by art while still preserving its original contour. Although American by birth, Miss Wyman is a representative of French style and taste. The discrimination, finesse, and sincerity of her interpretations relies
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Folk-song gathering, to be well and thoroughly accomplished, must be done slowly and deliberately, regardless of the passing of time. The singer should not be hurried, but should be allowed to give each song as memory brings it back, with reminiscences and casual conversation. Not the least
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The Sharp/Karpeles materials were first published in a 1917 sketch volume, covering only the material gathered in their first summer, then after Sharp's death in 1932 in a massive scholarly volume edited by Karpeles from field notes from all three summers of fieldwork from 1916 to
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Sept. 1916, the latter mentioning the conveyance of this typescript to him. Certain songs are marked up for printing, with the addition to each of a page of music (written in ms., pasted on). Song no. 1 and the table of contents at the end are autograph ms.". Source: worldcat.org.
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The two volumes just mentioned were intended for domestic use and enjoyment, rather than specifically being contributions to the scholarly literature on folk song. Wyman later shared a large amount of her Appalachian material with the doyen of American folk song scholars,
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to make recordings of her speakers. She was assisted in the fieldwork by "Mr. Adolfo Betti of the Flonzaley Quartet", who put the music into written notation. The research was published as Wyman (1920). Wyman commented in her article on the nature of folk song fieldwork:
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According to Heilbrun et al. (1997), they "engaged in a long and affectionate correspondence". Burty-Haviland's archived papers include a horoscope he cast for Wyman and an invitation to her 1926 wedding. Sources: Françoise Heilbrun, Paul Burty Haviland, and
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later described how the mother and daughters made their final escape via New York (March 1897): they were "taken aboard of an outgoing French steamer by a launch which was in waiting in the North river. Thus she eluded detectives employed by her husband."
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A one-paragraph biography of Wyman appears in Bergen (1915); it mentions "coal mining operations in Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvania". For Wyman as collector: various web references attest to the presence of his artifacts in museums today; see e.g.,
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Zande was evidently a key figure in the Kentucky fieldwork project. Greene, who examined Zande's preserved correspondence, writes: "Wyman was a charismatic sort of person who held Zande (who had met her earlier in New York) enthralled. When
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Wyman later collaborated in further French Canadian fieldwork with Marius Barbeau; Barbeau (1920) mentions an unpublished set of folksongs, "Collection Barbeau-Wyman", consisting of "60 songs with text and phonograph recording, collected at
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in New York in October 1916, and per Stamler, "continu for the next decade to uniformly enthusiastic reviews." They also published selected songs from their fieldwork, along with Brockway's piano accompaniments, in two collections:
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of her well modulated voice. — There is no extravagance in her performance; she does not go too far; she knows when she has made her points and is willing to give her hearers credit for a certain amount of intelligence.
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958:(2 January 1910): "Miss Loraine Wyman will give a song recital in Aeolian Hall on Saturday evening, Jan. 15. She will be assisted by Miss Lillian Littlehales, 'cellist, and Mrs. Edith Longstreet Smith, pianist."
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Brockway, Howard, and Loraine Wyman (1918) Brother Green or The dying soldier. (Harlan County, Kentucky). Set for a capella mixed chorus with rehearsal accompaniment for piano. New York, H.W. Gray.
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inhabitants, but emerging in the end with something like eighty entrancing melodic specimens in their note-books, representing both the 'lonesome tunes' and 'fast music', as they are called."
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Her performances around the same time before members of the Montreal branch of the American Folklore Society stimulated Canadian scholars to undertake fieldwork on French Canadian folk song.
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Her mother, Julie Moran Wyman (1860–1907) was from Joliet, Illinois, near Chicago. She possessed a mezzo-soprano voice described as a "marvel" and had a successful career as an opera singer.
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article covered several artists, with the theme "the past musical season has been one to encourage the artist who desires to develop his individuality rather than to emulate genius."
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praised her as "an excellent musician" but also reported her as being "not in good vocal condition". No further New York performances, it appears, were subsequently reported in the
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Brockway, Howard, and Loraine Wyman (1917) Le jardinier indifferent (Basse-Normandie). For vocal solo with piano accompaniment composed by Brockway. New York : H.W. Gray.
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reported that she had achieved critical success as a performer in London, and in January 1916, she stood in for an ailing Guilbert at the Metropolitan Opera, to rave notices.
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et la sincérité de son interprétation tiennent surtout de la tradition fondée par Gaston Paris et Julien Tiersot, et élargie par Yvette Guilbert, dont elle fut l’élève."
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She became a popular touring concert artist, performing French and British songs in peasant costume and charming audiences and critics across the country. In 1914, the
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Brockway, Howard, and Loraine Wyman (1918) The nightingale : Harlan Co., Kentucky. Set for four-part women's chorus (SSAA). Publisher: New York : H.W. Gray.
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Smith (2003), reviewing the press accounts, concludes that Wyman consistently delighted her audiences and critics. For example, one review (Rochester
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Barbeau, Marius (1920) Veillées du bon vieux temps à la bibliothèque Saint-Sulpice, à Montréal, les 18 mars et 24 avril 1919. Montréal: G. Ducharme.
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had obtained a divorce from his wife. Painter retired from medicine in 1928; Wyman moved with him to France, where they lived in
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reports her as a guest at a debutante lunch (5 January 1909), and as a chorus member in a benefit concert (27 February 1909).
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Departing from Deviance: A History of Homosexual Rights and Emancipatory Science in America
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to collect Appalachian folk songs. A contemporary reviewer described the work as follows:
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reports her taking the part of an Ancient Greek singer in a pageant (27 May 1909).
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August 1882), and the youngest Loraine (born 23 October 1885 in Evanston).
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concerts in aid of French musicians impoverished by the war.
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1581:Source for all of the preceding: Deredita (2007).
1371:Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec
1282:Seeger, Charles (1958) The Appalachian Dulcimer.
1197:George Lyman Kittredge (1917) Ballads and songs.
902:called Ashforth the "doyenne of vocal teachers";
511:Yale University Collection of Musical Instruments
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992:"Mr. and Mrs. Taft hosts to the Supreme Court",
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469:A review of one of her performances in 1924 by
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