Yankee Doodle Technique

Like most popular songs of the era, ”Yankee Doodle” may not have been an entirely original creation. Most music historians believe that Yankee Doodle’s lyricists simply borrowed the melody fr...

The title of this old patriotic folk song provides an interesting example of the way language develops. Today the words “Yankee” and “doodle” both have precise meanings in the English langu...