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The Cradle of harmony : William Sidney Mount's violin & fiddle music.

LIBRA Folk. 32379
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Format:
Sound recording
Contributor:
Mount, William Sidney, 1807-1868.
Ross, Gilbert, 1903-1993, performer.
Frankenstein, Alfred V. (Alfred Victor), 1906-1981.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fiddle tunes.
Folk music.
United States.
Violin music.
Folk music--United States--19th century.
Ethnic music recordings--United States.
Local Subjects:
Ethnic music recordings--United States.
Genre:
Fiddle tunes.
Violin music.
Sound recordings.
Folk music.
Physical Description:
1 audio disc : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in.
12 in.
Other Title:
William Sidney Mount's violin & fiddle music.
Willam Sydney Mount's violin and fiddle music.
Place of Publication:
N[ew] Y[ork] [City], NY : Folkways Records, [1976]
System Details:
analog
33 1/3 rpm
microgroove
stereo
Contents:
Willet's hornpipe
Tis the last rose of summer
Waltz
Merry girls of New York
Yellow hair'd laddie
Stony Brook moonshine
Yankee hornpipe
Birks of Invernay
Brown polka
In the cars, on the Long Island railroad
Col. Thorton's Strathspey
Rosa waltz
Cotillion in the key C, no. 2
I'll meet the maid inthe moonlit bower
Old Sussanna, don't you cry for me
Motion of the boat
Gentle Annie
Waltz, the cachucha
Pittsburgh hornpipe
Braes of Tullymet
Fashionable Schottisch
Fancy dance
Miss Eleanor Robertson's favorite
Possum hunt
Middletown hornpipe
Shawn Tanish Willichan
Jordan jig
Cotillion in the key of C, no. 4
The brass of Athol
Bloomingdale's waltz
Lord St. Vicent's hornpipe
Highland watch, now the 42nd regiment or royal highlanders
Uncle Ben's favorite
Nancy Till
First sett, no. 1.
Participant:
Gilbert Ross, violin ; Alfred Frankenstein, coordinator.
Notes:
A selection of music from Mount's library, played on one of the three examples of his self-designed violin called The cradle of harmony.
Program notes by Alfred Frankenstein ([6] p.) inserted in container.
OCLC:
3443496
Publisher Number:
FTS 32379 FolkwaysRecords

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