Eleanor Hague

Eleanor Hague (7 October 1875 – 25 December 1954) na one wuman from America wey sabi di way dem tek sing old muzik for Latin America. Shi bi pesin wey dey stodi hau pipul from long taim tek sing and dans.

Hau shi tek stat laif and go skul

One taim for 1883, dem draw pisho wey show Eleanor and ha sista Mary as dem dey rilas for hammock. Na dia anti, Mary Hallock Foote, draw am.

Dem bon Eleanor Hague for San Francisco, California. Ha papa nem na James Duncan Hague, im na pesin wey dey wok for graund, dey find gold and oda mineral. Ha mama nem na Mary Ward Foote Hague. Ha mama pipul — di Foote famili — bi famili to plenti big-big famili for New England said. One of ha anti, Kate Foote Coe, na pesin wey dey rait tori. Anoda uncle, Arthur De Wint Foote, na big enjinia and im mari pesin wey dey draw buk pisho, Mary Hallock Foote. Anoda of ha anti mari one politishian wey im nem bi Joseph Roswell Hawley. Dia gel-pikin, Margaret Foote Hawley, wey bi Eleanor kozin, na atist tu.

Eleanor go len muzik for New York and Massachusetts, and shi stil travul go France and Italy go len more.

Wok wey shi du

Wen shi stil dey yong for New York, Eleanor join New York Oratorio Society — na grup wey dey sing beta muzik. Shi ivun bi pesin wey dey lid choch kwaya.

Eleanor Hague laik to kolet and kip old songs from Latin America and old-taim Spanish California. For 1925, ha nem show as pesin wey arenj one song wey dem kol “Carmela,” wey one wuman wey sabi sing, Dusolina Giannini, sing for Victor kompni.

One big tin wey pipul sabi ha for bi say shi faind one old buk wey one Mexican dans ticha from long taim — Joseph María García — rait. Di man rait hau dem dey du plenti dans steps insaid di buk.

Eleanor also help to chenj old Spanish songs into English, and shi wok wit pipul laik Luisa Espinel, Juan Bautista Rael, and Marion Leffingwell. Somtaims, shi go sing di songs and play piano or guitar join.

For 1932, shi tok for Los Angeles Public Library abaut old Spanish muzik. For 1930s, shi yuz ha own moni help pipul wey dey stodi Native American muzik. Shi help one komposa, Harry Partch, rait down old muzik wey Charles Fletcher Lummis rekod for old wax cylinder. Shi also sopot Frances Densmore wey dey stodi hau Native pipul tek du muzik and dans.

Eleanor stat one grup wey shi kol Jarabe Club for Pasadena, California. Di klob dey help children len old Mexican songs and dans. Shi dey tich dem and ivun direkt dem wen dem dey pafom. For 1941, shi kari di Jarabe Club dansas go pafom for National Folk Festival for Washington, D.C.

Buks wey shi rait

• "Mexican Folk-Songs" (1912)
• "Brazilian Songs" (1912)
• Folk songs from Mexico and South America (1914, with Edward Kilenyi)
• "Spanish Songs from Southern California" (1914)
• "Eskimo Songs" (1915)
• "Five Mexican Dances" (1915)
• "Five Danzas from Mexico" (1915)
• Spanish-American Folk Songs (1917)
• Early Spanish-Californian folk-songs (1922, with Gertrude Ross)
• Latin-American Music Past and Present (1934)
• "Regional Music of Spain and Latin America" (1943)

Ha pesona laif and wetin shi liv bihaind

Eleanor Hague kpai for 1954 wen shi bi 79 yias old, for one ples wey dem dey kol Flintridge, for California.

Bifor she kpai, shi kari evri of ha impotant pepa and wok — inkludin dat Joseph María García old dans buk — giv one museum wey dem dey kol Southwest Museum mek dem kip am wel.

Yias leta, for 1996, one grup of smol pikin wey sabi play muzik for one town wey dem dey kol Atascadero, California, yuz di notes wey Joseph María García rait take pafom muzik for difrent shows. Dem kol di grup Children of the Hague Manuscript.