Hobgoblin Time

 

A hobgoblin is a faunlike forest spirit, and a hero of the drama THE SUNKEN BELL by  GERHARD HAUPTMANN 1898.

HOBGOBLIN IS THE HERO OF THE SWEDISH NATIONAL TALE -"Swans down and Little Beauty." THE TALE WAS PUBLISHED IN AMERICAN MAGAZINE "GOOD WORDS.", EDITED BY THE REVEREND  DONALD MACLEOD DD  IN 1905 NOVEMBER.

THE LITERARY MAGAZINE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA- Porter's Spirit of the Times, ISSUE OF MAY 16, YEAR 1857 PUBLISHED THE NOVEL HOBGOBLIN AS WELL. 

HOBGOBLIN- A POPULAR HERO OF AMERICAN FOLKLORE.

THE AMERICAN COMPOSER- G.W. CHADWICK COMPOSED THE SYMPHONIC SUITE ABOUT HOBGOBLIN- WHICH WAS A NICKNAME OF THE ROBIN HOOD IN THE TIMES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.

SYMPHONIC SKETCHES SUITE FOR ORCHESTRA GEORGE WHITFIELD CHADWICK Born at Lowell Mass on November 13 1854 LIVED in Boston .

THE SUITE CONSISTS OF FOUR MOVEMENTS, PLAYED IN CONSECUTIVE ORDER, THE MOVEMENTS WERE AS WELL POPULAR OPUSES PLAYTED ALONE.

SUITE CONSISTED OF THOSE PARTS

Jubilee
 Noël 
Hobgoblin 
A Vagrom Ballad 

"Hobgoblin was performed for the first time at Mr concert in Jordan Hall Boston in November 21 1904 The four movements were first played at concerts of the Symphony Orchestra in Boston on February 7- 8, 1908 Dr conducted 

They were played on October 23 24 1914 when Muck conducted."

The Symphonic Sketches wer dedicated to Sir Frederick S. Converse and were published in 1907. They are scored for piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, one interchangeable with English horn, two clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, four horns, two trumpets, three trombones, a set of three kettledrums, military drum bass, drum cymbal,s triangle,tambourine, xylophone, and harp strings.

III 

Hobgoblin

Scherzo capriccioso, Allegro vivace, F major 3-4 

The motto is Shakespeare's "that shrewd and knavish sprite called Robin Goodfellow".  

 The composer himself did not have in mind any expression of fairyism or fairy tales of Sweden. He had in mind the rascally imp that frights maidens of the villagery, who skims milk, and mocks the breathless housewife at the churn, then misleads the night wanderers, and disconcerts sorely the wisest aunt telling the saddest tale. 

Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Puck, 

You do their work and they shall have good luck. 

THE NAME GOBLIN HAS BEEN UNDERSTOOD AS THE NICKNAME AND SHORT FOR THE BRITISH NAME ROBIN SINCE THE TIMES OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. 

THE BRITISH LINGUIST AND WRITER RICHARD GRANT WHITE COMMENTED ON THIS NAME 

Richard Grant White says in a note to "A Midsummer Night's Dream":-

"Until after Shakespeare wrote this play, the word "puck" was the generic name for a minor order of evil spirits.

 The name "puck" exists in all the Teutonic and Scandinavian dialects, and in New York the Dutch have left it in a form of "spook", which means a ghost or spirit known to all who are "Knickerbockers" by blood or birth.

 The name was not pronounced in Shakespeare's time with the u short. Indeed he seems to have been the first to spell it "puck" all other previous or contemporary English writers in whose works it has been discovered spelling it either  as "powke", or  "pooke", or "pouke". 

There seems to be no reason to doubt that William Shakespeare and his contemporaneous readers pronounced it as  "pook".

The fact that it is made a rhyme to the word "luck" is not at all in variance with this opinion, because it appears equally certain that the "u" in that word and in all of similar orthography had the sound of "oo". Burton in his "Anatomy of Melancholy" makes a "puck' to be a separate demon "will-o-the-wisp." 

In Ben Jonson's 'Sad Shepherd" he appears as the "Puck hairy'.

In "Hudibras" he figures as "good Pug-Robin".

See Heywood's "Hierarchie Lib IX.":

In John Milesius any man may reade 

Of divels in Sarmatia 

honored Call d'Kottri of Kibaldi; such as wee.

Pugs and hobgoblins call. Their dwellings 

In corners of old houses least frequented bee, 

Or beneath stacks of wood; and these convented 

Make fearfull noise in buttries and in dairies, 

Robin good fellowes some some call them fairies. 

The name "Hobgoblin" is compounded of the name "hob"- which is a familiar or rustic variation of the Christian name "Robert" or "Robin and goblin". The original meaning of the word "hobgoblin" was- a mischievous, and tricksy imp or sprite, which is just another name for "Puck" or "Robin Goodfellow"- which is Robin Hood.  The meaning of the name "hobgoblin" as  "a terrifying apparition, a bogy" was a later one.

Measures of preluding introduced by a horn lead to the first capricious and chief theme of the scherzo. A second theme is derived from the opening horn call. The trio section un poco più moderato begins with a theme announced by bassoons umoristico.  

THE MAGAZINE FOR EDUCATORS OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF THE USA- NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS- MONTH OF OCTOBER YEAR 1927.

THE CLASSIC REPERTOIRE OF THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA- THE SONG- Hobgoblin Time  -  Words and Music by ANNIE STEVENS PERKINS.

QUITE RARE SONG- THE GRAND AMERICAN CLASSICS- HALLOWEEN SONG FOR THE SCHOOL PLAY AND PERFORMANCE. 

ADDING THE NOTE SHEET. 

THE SONG FOUND IN THIS MAGAZINE- PRESENTED AS IT WAS FOUND

ORIGINAL SONG WAS FOUND IN THIS MAGAZINE

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR OCTOBER  1927