Monday, December 15, 2008

Film Class: BARBARA ALLEN

BARBARA ALLEN
THE FOLK SONG, "Barbara Allen," is a key song in the film, Scrooge. For those students who wish to familiarize yourselves with the song so you can recognize its many variations in the film, including an elegiac variation as Scrooge's sister lays dying, and its final symbolic use as source music when Scrooge reconciles with his nephew, go here for a version of the song with scroll lyrics ant musical notation, and here for a sweet soprano version by Joan Baez (one of the most popular folksingers of the 1960s).

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