Melody used in "The Barn Dance" from 1928 ?

[appelquistdk]

Hi.
I would be glad to know the title of the main melody used in the early Silly Symphony "The Barn Dance" from 1928.
Can somebody help me?
Kind regards
appelquist

[Lars Vermundsberget]

Well, it is a Mickey Mouse short, not a Silly Symphony.

It includes snippets of a number of "traditional tunes" used in several other Disney shorts, among other things. Which one would be the "main melody", in the first place? There is one that "carries" a lot of the actual dance sequence that I guess could be "Pop goes the weasel" or something like that. Can anyone tell? Close to the start there's a short piece of a tune that I recognize as "Merrily we roll along", but that would be no means be the "main melody".

[UrsushH.Bear]

two songs: Reuben, Reuben I've been thinking

and "the old grey mare"

anything else?

[Anders M Olsson]

Lieder ohne Worte Op.62, No.6 Spring Song by Felix Mendelssohn.

[appelquistdk]

Thank you very much everybody.

After Minnie made a knot on her leg and cut off the unnecessary part of it, the leader of the band blows his nose and the orchestra starts playing the melody I would like to know the title of.

I do not live in USA and thats why I don't know all the splendid American melodies used in Silly Symphony and (like this) the old Mickey Mouse-cartoons.

Most of the European (classical) melodies I know.

I have searched and searched the web trying to find out which melodies is used in the different Silly Symphony and the old Mickey Mouse, but unfortunately without succes.

Kind regards
Appelquist

[Anders M Olsson]

I have searched and searched the web trying to find out which melodies is used in the different Silly Symphony and the old Mickey Mouse, but unfortunately without succes.

I think you might be interested in this book:
http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/pubbli ... t_cdf.html

Take a look at the sample entry for Flowers and Trees:
http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/pubbli ... tryF&T.pdf

[Anders M Olsson]

Reuben, Reuben I've been thinking

Or more correctly Reuben and Rachel by William Gooch and Harry Birch. I think that might be the song appelquistdk is looking for.

Try listening to the midi here:
http://www.stephen-foster-songs.de/Archiv01.htm

[appelquistdk]

GREAT!
That book is a "must" for me. Many of the old Mickey Mouse has also splendid music, but anyway - I'll buy this book!
Do you happen to know the title of the music I wrote about in my previous topic?
Kind regards
Appelquist

[appelquistdk]

Hejsan Anders.
(Min farmor blev født i Blekinge i 1870. Hun og en søster emigrerede til Danmark. Hendes 3 andre søskende emigrerede til USA. Nå, men jeg må hellere fortsætte på engelsk).
Thank you very much, Anders. Reuben and Rachel is just the melody I have looked for. The link to http://www.stephen-foster-songs.de/Archiv01.htm is very useful. I'm sure, I can find many of the melodies from Silly Symphony and Mickey Mouse there.
I have ordered the book about the Silly Symhonies.
Thank once more for a very great help.
Appelquist

[Lars Vermundsberget]

I've known about that book for a while now, and I'm pretty much about to try to get hold of it... It appears to me that the only practical solution is to order it directly from Indiana University Press...