Hanns Eisler: Variations on American Children’s Songs
Hanns Eisler: Variations on American Children’s Songs

Author(s): Bence Asztalos
Subject(s): Music, School education, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: Eisler; nursery rhymes; film music; film programs; chamber music;
Summary/Abstract: Hanns Eisler’s Suite for Septet No.1 op.92a (Variations on American Children’s Songs) is film music, composed for Joseph Losey’s documentary, A Child Went Forth, shown in 1942. The musical content of the film, about children’s summer camp, has been adopted from such nursery rhymes as Little Ah Sid, Strawberry Fair or Sourwood Mountain. This study points out, besides the work’s musical attributes, a few typical momentums of composition, adding tips to film programs already operating in schools.

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