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| | PCWorld.com - Turn Your PC Into a SongCatcher |
 | | Where SongCatcher distinguishes itself, however, is in its capability to split the raw audio into individual songs (eliminating annoying commercials and DJ chatter) and to identify those songs by artist and title. | | | As a recorder, SongCatcher is not so unlike other PC audio recorders, including the sound recorder program integrated into Windows. | | | Each song can contain up to a minute of audio leading into the song--the end of the previous song, DJ introductions--and excess audio at the end. |
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http://www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=36948
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| | Songcatcher |
| | Songcatcher is too pat to ever approach the song's complexity, but it is a measure of Greenwald's intelligence that, for the length of the scene, she's willing to give her film up to its mystery. | | | Writer/director Maggie Greenwald is willing to suspend her narrative for minutes at a time in order to spotlight a song, and these moments - especially a baying, mournful solo turn by Iris Dement - are everything one could hope for. | | | the soundtrack CD Songcatcher 2: The Tradition That Inspired Movie |
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http://www.culturevulture.net/Movies2/Songcatcher.htm
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| | Songcatcher The Overview |
| | For Mansfield, the film was a chance to explore the roots of the music he had listened to, loved and played all his life. | | | The sweet, haunting songs "caught" on film in "SONGCATCHER: represent some of America's most powerful musical influences - the Appalachian roots that later sprouted into the spirited twang of American country music, the lively atmosphere of bluegrass, the urgent relevancy of folk and eventually the Southern-influenced birth of Elvis Presley's rock n'roll. | | | Greenwald knew right from the start that the film had to be suffused with incredible sounds from all over Appalachia, reflecting the fantastic diversity and influence of the music. |
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http://www.worldofgramophones.com/songcatcher1.html
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| | Songcatcher (2001): Reviews |
| | Songcatcher is a sweet, lyrical ode to rural America in the early 1900's. | | | It could hardly be otherwise, given the level of musical talent she recruited for Songcatcher. | | | The music is truly the thing in Songcatcher and it's awesome, haunting stuff. |
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http://www.metacritic.com/video/titles/songcatcher
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| | Welcome to the Best of New Orleans! Film Reviews 10 16 01 |
| | It is these moments when Songcatcher is understandably at its best, as Greenwald takes her sweet time letting the people do what they do. | | | Almost every song is sung from start to finish, and the quivering, yodel-like strains of this magical sound get their due spotlight. | | | Noble ideas, sure, and writer-director Maggie Greenwald tries real hard to make her story and characters likeable as she explores the Appalachian folk music in the beginning of the 20th century. |
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http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2001-10-16/film_review.html
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| | SongCatcher 0.91 for Windows 95/98/ME |
| | SongCatcher is a patented software application that turns your PC into a Personal Radio Recorder (PRR) allowing you to collect, store and manage music that you automatically record from your favorite local over-the-air radio stations.. | | | With SongCatcher, you will be able to capture, or "catch" all of the songs that play on your favorite radio station. | | | SongCatcher 0.91 for Windows 95/98/ME FREE 2 DAY SHIPPING on Most Computer Music Products PLUS All Musical Instruments and Sound Equipment |
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http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/SongCatcher
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| | Q&A: "Songcatcher" Pioneer on Musical Heritage |
| | Henrietta Yurchenco with her Magnemite recorder, a tool of early songcatchers. | | | It's the story of the world's music and those who traveled the globe, including Yurchenco, to capture the elemental sounds that make up the human voice. | | | Pioneer ethnomusicologist Henrietta Yurchenco has spent over 60 adventurous years recording songs and stories around the world. |
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http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/06/0616_030616_yurchenco.html
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| | Songcatcher |
| | Professor of music Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer, The King is Alive, Waking the Dead) rediscovers this music in the heart of Appalachia on a visit to her sister Elna (Jane Adams, The Anniversary Party, Wonder Boys). | | | used folk music to set a mood and conjure up a different time, folk music is the essence of Songcatcher. | | | There are so many good things about Songcatcher, but writer/director Maggie Greenwald (The Ballad of Little Jo, Kill-Off) still feels the need to add in unnecessary plot elements that do little except dilute the power of the music in the film. |
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http://www.haro-online.com/movies/songcatcher.html
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| | Ink 19 :: Songcatcher |
| | Songcatcher is a film about a woman trying to preserve and record the folk songs of Appalachia. | | | The soundtrack brings together some of the finest female country voices for a collection of interpretations of these traditional songs. | | | And Julie Miller's contribution is a re-recorded version of her "All My Tears" done in a more traditional style with Gillian Welch (banjo), Tammy Rogers (fiddle), and of course, husband Buddy Miller (harmonium, guitar) backing her up. |
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http://www.ink19.com/issues/june2001/wetInk/musicS/songcatcher.html
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| | Movie Photos: Songcatcher |
| | SONGCATCHER leaves you in a state of bliss as the music floats through your mind like a billowy cloud on a lazy summer day. | | | Aidan Quinn as Tom Bledsoe in Lions Gate's Songcatcher - 2001 | | | Input celebrity name or movie title, e.g.: Songcatcher. |
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http://www.allmoviephoto.com/photo/2000_Songcatcher_photo.html
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| | Movie (Metro Times Detroit) |
| | The ballad “Barbara Allen” is sung three times in Songcatcher, and the way it’s performed illustrates writer-director Maggie Greenwald’s take on the place of folk music in America. | | | But when it comes to music, it’s a blissful love letter to the old-time sounds which have the ability to haunt mountain folk and flatlanders alike. | | | Unfortunately, there’s a quaintness to the way Greenwald has filmed Songcatcher that keeps it from truly expressing the power of these songs, and how they voice the hardscrabble life eked out on the beautiful but harsh mountainsides. |
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http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/review.asp?id=50932
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| | Political Film Society - Songcatcher |
| | (The Dolly Parton song as credits roll attests to the later success of hillbilly music.) En route to the lowlands, they encounter the musicologist who was hired for the professorship instead; having received copies of a few ballads, he planned to assist her in the songcatching project. | | | Homeless, Lily decides to return to the city, inviting Tom to come along and make a fortune by recording and selling the songs. | | | Lily then bequeaths the project to him, though he promises to give her senior authorship in the future publication of songs. |
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http://www.geocities.com/~polfilms/songcatcher.html
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| | Songcatcher |
| | The real reason to see the movie, however, is the hypnotic music. | | | "It's Songcatcher's songs, not its story, that linger." | | | "The music of Songcatcher makes this film worth the catching." |
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http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movie-1102054
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| | ECHO VI/2: Saffle |
| | Songcatcher: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture. | | | Desire for Piety: Songs from the B.F. White Sacred Harp. | | | I began by discussing a large slab of D. Wilgus’s classic monograph on songcatchers. |
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http://www.echo.ucla.edu/volume6-issue2/sam/saffle.html
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| | Songcatcher News |
| | Golden Globe nominee Emmy Rossum has wrapped her part as an aspiring songwriter in the Lifetime Television romantic comedy Nola, which makes its U.S. television premiere on Monday, June 6. | | | Songcatcher News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net. |
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| | 'Songcatcher' |
| | The music throughout "Songcatcher" is nothing short of phenomenal, especially such traditional (now-famous) ballads as "Barbara Allen," "I Wish I Was a Single Girl Again" and that chilling "Conversation With Death." Any listener with a heart will be hypnotized by the mournfully distinctive glottal-yodel up-stitch twang at the end of every line. | | | In the process, she also will learn a few things about childbirth, her sister's sexual preferences and the difference in values between these isolated, dirt-poor illiterates up above and the educated "outlanders" who want to cash in on their music (and their coal deposits) down below. | | | Armed with her state-of-the-art Edison disk-recording machine, Lily sets about catching every tune she can, with the alternating help and hindrance of the natives. |
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http://www.post-gazette.com/movies/20010727song0727fnp4.asp
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| | The Popkorn Junkie :: Songcatcher |
| | Being a film about mountain folk music, however, the highlight of the film is the sound of various songs whether played as part of the action or simply heard on the background soundtrack. | | | "Songcatcher" is a nice movie but it sometimes borders on Hallmark sweetness and some of the subplots seem to be melodramatic. | | | Talk about this film with other Popkorn Junkies |
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http://popkornjunkie.com/reviews/songcatcher.html
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| | Songcatcher movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review |
| | Her plan is to record music never heard before. | | | Lily Penleric (Janet McTeer) has devoted her life to the study of music and is one of the most knowledgeable instructors at the university. | | | While not an earth-shattering exploration of social issues, "Songcatcher" is nonetheless a fascinating journey through a culture whose soul is the lyrical ballads that never age and never stop speaking to the heart. |
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http://www.thezreview.co.uk/reviews/s/songcatcher.htm
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| | The Conversation Continues - Page 3 |
| | and Songcatcher — wonderful folk music in both movies. | | | But, then, I’ve always been a Dapper Dan man. By the by, anyone here a Paul Theroux buff? | | | I, too, am a fan of Brother, which I should just buy and get it over with and save rental fees, and I enjoyed Songcatcher as well. |
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http://www.williammichaelian.com/conversation/conversation4.html
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Songcatcher at Epinions.com |
| | It is even more vital to discuss the music of Songcatcher that even the music of O Brother, Where Art Thou. | | | Songcatcher's story is about a Briish woman, played by Tumbleweed's Janet McTeer, in post Spanish/American war America, transplanted to the New York Appalachians to study and phonograph the origins of English folk ballads, like those that later became "O, Death" (traditonial) and "Single Girl/Married Girl" (The Carter Family). | | | Nice romance et al, but here you might get some clues to the origins of some tunes we only thought we knew. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_46959464068
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| | village voice > film > Songcatcher; Russian Doll; Swordfish by Michael Atkinson |
| | Earnest, anemic, and ham-handed, Maggie Greenwald's new period drama, Songcatcher, occupies interesting territory: Appalachia circa 1907, explored by a woman musicologist in order to record the native folk tunes she recognizes as long-lost Anglo-Celtic ballads unheard anywhere else for a century or more. | | | Fascinating sociocultural contexts don't automatically translate into narrative, and because recording hillbilly croonings from recalcitrant mountainfolk isn't a story, Greenwald resorts to cheap politics and cliché for her frictions. | | | The title is predicated on the old Marx Brothers speakeasy-password routine, but the story (superhacker Hugh Jackman is connived into working for megacrook-CIA splinter John Travolta, on what turns out to be a draconian anti-terrorist campaign) is just what fills in the gaps between slow-motion fireballs, Matrix-style frozen mayhem, and Halle Berry's notoriously undraped breasts. |
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http://www.villagevoice.com/film/0124,atkinson,25495,20.html
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| | AfterEllen.com - Review of Songcatcher |
| | Thus Lily sets out to convince the mountain folks, who are naturally suspicious of outsiders, to sing for her, and along the way she meets a variety of interesting mountain people including the hard-bitten Tom (Aidan Quinn), an outspoken critic of Lily's efforts who accuses her of exploiting the mountain folks. | | | Although the focus of the film is on Lily and her journey, Adams's performance as Elna is powerful and memorable. | | | But despite these flaws, and the fact that the lesbian couple doesn't have a happy ending, Songcatcher is a truly enchanting film that very effectively draws you into the lives of these people. |
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http://www.afterellen.com/Movies/72004/songcatcher.html
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| | Songcatcher by Songcatcher: Parton & Cash & Harris CD |
| | Songcatcher by Songcatcher: Parton & Cash & Harris CD Artist | | | Songcatcher II: The Tradition That Inspired The Movie | | | When Love Is New - Dolly Parton/Emmy Rossum |
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http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1669594/a/Songcatcher.htm
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| | Songcatcher (2000) |
| | I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Songcatcher (2000) |
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210299
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| | Sharyn McCrumb, Songcatcher |
| | Many writers begin their careers by writing about their own lives and families, but I wrote more than a dozen books before I ventured into family history in the course of a novel. | | | I found Malcolm McCourry while I was doing the research for an earlier book, and I was so intrigued with him that I made him the focal point of The Songcatcher, mostly because I thought he had such an interesting life, and only incidentally because he was my four-times great-grandfather. | | | As an adolescent Malcolm turned up in Morristown, New Jersey, where he apprenticed with an attorney, later becoming a lawyer himself. |
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| | Songcatcher - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter |
| | Songcatcher - Compare Prices & Reviews at Smarter | | | Your use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the Smarter.com Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions | | | Janet McTeer, Aidan Quinn, Pat Carroll, Jane Adams, Taj Mahal, M |
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