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"I Wonder as I Wander" is a Christmas carol written by John Jacob Niles based on a fragment of a folk song collected in 1933. A Christmas carol (also called a Noël) is a carol ( Song or Hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, or the winter John Jacob Niles (b Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 1892; d Lexington Kentucky, March 1, 1980) was an

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History

"I Wonder as I Wander" has its origins in a song fragment collected on July 16, 1933 by folklorist and singer John Jacob Niles. Events 622 - The beginning of the Islamic calendar. 1054 - Three Roman legates fractured relations between the Western and Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John Jacob Niles (b Louisville, Kentucky, April 28, 1892; d Lexington Kentucky, March 1, 1980) was an [1][2][3][4][5] While in the town of Murphy in Appalachian North Carolina, Niles attended a fundraising meeting held by evangelicals who had been ordered out of town by the police. Murphy is a town in Cherokee County, North Carolina, United States. Appalachia is a term used to describe a region in the eastern United States that stretches from southern New York state to northern Alabama, North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States [1][5] In his unpublished autobiography, he wrote of hearing the song:

A girl had stepped out to the edge of the little platform attached to the automobile. She began to sing. Her clothes were unbelievable dirty and ragged, and she, too, was unwashed. Her ash-blond hair hung down in long skeins. . . . But, best of all, she was beautiful, and in her untutored way, she could sing. She smiled as she sang, smiled rather sadly, and sang only a single line of a song. [2]

The girl, named Annie Morgan, repeated the fragment seven times in exchange for a quarter per performance, and Niles left with "three lines of verse, a garbled fragment of melodic material—and a magnificent idea". [5][2] (In various accounts of this story, Niles hears between one and three lines of the song. [2][5][4][6]) Based on this fragment, Niles composed the version of "I Wonder as I Wander" that is known today, extending the melody to four lines and the lyrics to three stanzas. [5][2][3] His composition was completed on October 4, 1933. Events 610 - Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. [2] Niles first performed the song on December 19, 1933 at the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina. Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. John C Campbell Folk School, in Brasstown, NC, is a Non-profit educational organization with a mission to provide experiences in non-competitive learning [2][6] It was originally published in Songs of the Hill Folk in 1934. [6][4]

Niles's "folk composition" process caused confusion among singers and listeners, many of whom believed this song to be anonymous in origin. [7][8] Niles undertook lawsuits to establish its authorship and demanded royalties of other performers of the song. [7][8]

Setting and arrangements

"I Wonder as I Wander", since its collection, has always been sung to the melody published by Niles. [1] According to academic and theologian Ian Bradley, the "clean, haunting melody. Ian Campbell Bradley (born 28 May 1950) is a British Academic, Author, Theologian, Church of Scotland . . maintains the open-air atmosphere and sense of wistful wandering conjured up in the first line. "[1]

A notable recent choral setting by Swiss composer Carl Rütti has been performed at the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College Chapel, Cambridge. The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is a format for a service of Christian Worship celebrating the birth of Jesus which is traditionally followed King's College Chapel is the chapel to King's College of the University of Cambridge, and is one of the finest examples of late English Gothic Of great interest is the setting for soprano and orchestra by Luciano Berio (1925-2003), from "Folk Songs (Berio)," 1964, no. Luciano Berio, Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( October 24, 1925 &ndash May 27, 2003) was an Italian Composer. Folk Songs is a Song cycle by the Italian Composer Luciano Berio composed in 1964. 2: the entire song cycle was composed for, and recorded by, Cathy Berberian. Catherine Anahid Berberian ( Attleboro, Massachusetts, July 4 1925 - Rome, Italy, March 6 1983) was

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References

  1. ^ a b c d Bradley, Ian. Jo Elizabeth Stafford ( November 12, 1917  &ndash July 16, 2008) was an American singer of Traditional pop music Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives ( 14 June 1909 &ndash 14 April 1995) was an Academy Award winning American actor and acclaimed Mahalia Jackson (October 26 1911 In 1929 Jackson met the composer Thomas A Joan Chandos Baez (born January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York) an American Folk singer and Songwriter known Noël was a Christmas album by Joan Baez, released in 1966 Working with composer Peter Schickele ( PDQ Bach) Baez for the Barbra Streisand (ˈstraɪsænd "STRY-sand" born April 24 1942 is an American Singer, Film and Theatre Actress A Christmas Album (1967 is the first Christmas album released by Barbra Streisand. Sir Philip Ledger CBE (born December 12, 1937) is a British classical musician and academic The world-famous Choir of King's College Cambridge is one of today's most accomplished and renowned representatives of the great British choral tradition Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells on October 1 1935) is an award-winning English Actress John Milford Rutter CBE (born) is an English Composer, choral conductor, editor, Arranger and Record producer Cambridge Singers is an English mixed voice chamber/choral group formed in 1981 by their director John Rutter with the express purpose of making recordings under Sir James Galway OBE (born December 8, 1939) is a Northern Ireland &ndashborn Virtuoso flautist from Belfast, nicknamed The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ( RPO) is a British Orchestra based in London. The King's Singers are a celebrated and long-lived British A cappella vocal ensemble. WikipediaWikiProject Opera#Infoboxes --> Kathleen Battle (born August 13 1948, Portsmouth Ohio, USA Peter Paul and Mary (often called PP&M) are a musical group from the United States who were one of the most successful folk-singing groups of the Eton College, or just Eton, is a world-famous British Independent school for boys founded in 1440 by King Henry VI. Vanessa Williams is the name of three contemporaneous African-American singers and/or actresses who are sometimes confused Vanessa L Star Bright, released on November 5, 1996 was the fourth Album and the first Christmas album by Vanessa L Jewel Kilcher (born May 23, 1974) is an American Singer-songwriter, actress, and Poet, generally known just by her Joy A Holiday Collection is a Christmas Album by Singer/songwriter Jewel, released in 1999 (see 1999 in music) New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Linda Maria Ronstadt (born July 15 1946 in Tucson Arizona) is an American popular vocalist and Entertainer whose vocal styles in a variety Ian Campbell Bradley (born 28 May 1950) is a British Academic, Author, Theologian, Church of Scotland The Penguin Book of Carols. Penguin (1999), p148. ISBN 0140275266.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Pen, Ron. "I Wonder as I Wander". A Kentucky Christmas (George Ella Lyon, editor). University Press of Kentucky (2003), p200–201. ISBN 0813122791.
  3. ^ a b Studwell, William E. The Christmas Carol Reader. Haworth Press (1995), p111. ISBN 1560249749.
  4. ^ a b c Emmons, Shirlee & Wilbur Watkin Lewis. Researching the Song: A Lexicon. Oxford University Press (2006), p242. ISBN 0195152026.
  5. ^ a b c d e Niles, John Jacob. "I Wonder as I Wander". John-Jacob-Niles. com.
  6. ^ a b c Stulken, Marilyn K. With One Voice: Reference Companion. Augsburg Fortress (2000), p25. ISBN 0806638435.
  7. ^ a b Pen, Ron. "Introduction to the New Edition". The Ballad Book of John Jacob Niles. University Press of Kentucky (2000), pxiv. ISBN 0813109876.
  8. ^ a b Pegolotti, James A. Deems Taylor: A Biography. UPNE (2003), p285. ISBN 1555535879.
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