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An American singing heritage : songs from the British-Irish-American oral tradition as recorded in the early twentieth century / edited by Norm Cohen, Carson Cohen, and Anne Dhu McLucas.
LIBRA M2.3.U6 R4 v.89
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- Format:
- Musical score
- Series:
- Recent researches in American music ; v. 89.
- Music of the United States of America ; 32.
- Recent Researches In American Music ; Volume 89
- Music of the United States of America ; volume 32
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Old-time music.
- Folk songs--United States.
- Folk songs.
- United States.
- Folk songs, English--Great Britain.
- Folk songs, English.
- Great Britain.
- Folk songs, English--Ireland.
- Ireland.
- Genre:
- Old-time music.
- Folk songs.
- Scores.
- Folk music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 score (xlix, 546 pages) ; 31 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, [2021]
- Language Note:
- Staff notation.
- Summary:
- "This edition brings together representative transcriptions of folk songs and ballads in the British-Irish-American oral tradition that have enjoyed widespread familiarity throughout twentieth-century America. Within are the one hundred folk songs that most frequently occurred in a methodical survey of Roud's Folk Song Index, catalogues of commercial early country (or "hillbilly") recordings, and relevant archival collections." --A-R Editions website.
- Contents:
- Barbara Allen
- Frog he went a-courting
- The house carpenter
- Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender
- Black Jack David
- The Jealous lover
- The lassie Mawhee
- Sweet Willie
- The butcher boy
- Jimmie Randall (The pizen song)
- Tom Sherman's Barroom & St. James' Hospital
- The golden willow tree
- The devil and the farmer's wife
- Hangman, hangman, slack the rope
- Knoxville girl
- A package of love letters
- My horses ain't hungry, they won't eat your hay
- Pretty fair miss in the garden
- Lord Lovel
- Lady Marg'et
- young Charlotte
- Lord Bateman
- Pretty Polly
- three nights experience
- Frankie and Johnny
- Madam I've come to marry you
- The three babes
- The two sisters
- As the dew flies over the green valley
- Lord Daniel
- Charming Billy
- John Henry
- Sleepy desert
- The story of George Collins
- Springfield Mountain
- Ommie Wise
- Jesse James I've always been a rambler
- Old Joe Clark
- Little Sir Hugh
- The prisoner's song
- Old Dan Tucker
- The blind child
- Father go dig me a boat
- The cuckoo she's a fine bird
- The orphan girl
- Beware all you handsome ladies
- Lord Varnold
- Sourwood Mountain
- Jack Monroe
- Bury me under the weeping willow
- Boston Burglar
- Who's going to shoe your pretty little feet
- The Darby ram
- Little old log cabin in the lane
- Charley he's a good old man
- Pretty Sally
- Rye whisky
- Give my love to Nellie
- Texas Rangers
- Wild rippling water
- Charles Guiteau
- John Hardy
- The golden dagger
- The roving gambler
- The three crows
- Casey Jones
- The miller's will
- Birmingham Jail
- Red river valley
- Edward
- Go tell Aunt Phoebe
- I courted a fair maid
- Skip to my Lou
- I wish I was single again
- The two school boys
- The dying cowboy
- Old woman and the cow Early, early in the morning
- Cambric shirt
- Sally Goodin'
- King William was King George's son
- Cripple Creek
- They say it is ismple to flirt
- Old ninety-seven
- Foreman Monroe
- Cindy
- Round town gals
- Little brown jug
- In the state of Arkansas
- Going down the road feelin' bad
- With his old gray beard a-shining
- Mary of the wild moor
- Pretty Saro
- Liza Jane
- Single girl, married girl
- Kitty Wells
- Jimmie Randall
- Wild Bill Jones
- Down by the greenwood side
- Notes:
- This volume contains transcriptions of 100 popular songs, taken from recordings made from the 1920s through the early 1940s. With a foreword, preface, overview, two appendices, bibliography, and indices.
- "Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc."--Title page.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-533) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1987207289
- 9781987207286
- OCLC:
- 1290319838
- Publisher Number:
- 9781987207286
- A89 A-R Editions
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