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Films set in 1700 (4 P) F. Films about the Forty-seven Ronin (11 P) Pages in category "Films set in the 1700s" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 ...
Although Songcatcher is a fictional film, it is loosely based on the work of Olive Dame Campbell, founder of the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina, and that of the English folk song collector Cecil Sharp, portrayed at the end of the film as professor Cyrus Whittle.
In New England, the music was very religious and was vitally important in the rising of American music. The migration of people southward led to the settling of the Appalachian Mountains. There many poor Europeans inhabited and brought country blues and fiddling. As music spread, the religious hymns were still just as popular.
The historical drama or period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. Some historical dramas are docudramas, which attempt to accurately portray a historical event or biography to the degree the available historical research will allow.
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
Films set in 1789 (8 P) A. American Revolutionary War films (46 P) B. Films about HMS Bounty (7 P, 3 F) F. French Revolution films (5 C, 50 P) T. Films based on A ...
Pages in category "Films set in the 1770s" The following 37 pages are in this category, out of 37 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Beaumarchais (film)
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