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contest-elaboration · mendelson1974-benny-thomasson
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- mendelson1974-benny-thomasson
- Claim ID
- contest-elaboration
- Assertion
- In Texas, frequent and sometimes lucrative fiddle contests bred competition that led fiddlers to develop ever more elaborate versions of tunes as contest show pieces, and stressed the fiddle as a solo instrument; deliberate variation, already present in Eck Robertson's 1922 'Sally Gooden' with 13 strains, became a defining feature of Texas style.
- Quote
This in turn led to the deliberate practice of developing more and more elaborate versions of tunes to present as show pieces at the contest. The contest also stressed the importance of the fiddle as a solo instrument
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