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Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle. Popular Amer. tune with confused history of both words and mus., the 2 words of the title being still unexplained as to orig. Earliest printed version of tune, under this title, in Vol. I of Aird's Selection of Scotch, English, Irish, and Foreign Airs for the Fife, Violin, or German Flute (Glasgow, c.1775). Many sets of humorous or nonsense words fitted to it since. Anton Rubinstein wrote pf. variations on tune, and Vieuxtemps's Caprice burlesque, vn. and pf., is based on it. It is used, altered, in theme in finale of Dvořák's New World Sym.
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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Yankee Doodle." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Yankee Doodle." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-YankeeDoodle.html MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "Yankee Doodle." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-YankeeDoodle.html |
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Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle a song composed in the 1750s during the French and Indian War (1754–63), and one of the most popular during the Revolutionary War. The lyrics are of British origin and were written to ridicule American colonists and the attire of American soldiers. The Americans adopted the song as one of their own, which led to the development of many different versions and parodies, both British and American. It is believed the Americans played it when the British surrendered at Yorktown (1781). The tune is believed to be of American origin.
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"Yankee Doodle." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Yankee Doodle." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-YankeeDoodle.html "Yankee Doodle." The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military. 2001. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O63-YankeeDoodle.html |
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