Structure
"Old Dan Tucker"
Sorry, your browser either has JavaScript disabled or does not have any supported player. You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. First verse and chorus as performed by bluegrass band Jim Smoak & The Louisiana Honeydrippers in 1960. Note the accent on the second and fourth beats and the rhythmic text declamation. Read more about this topic: Old Dan Tucker Famous quotes containing the word structure:“Who says that fictions only and false hair “If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.” “There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. There is therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered, or born with. We must give up the idea of a clearly defined shared structure which language-users acquire and then apply to cases.” |