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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.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Series:
- Recent researches in music online 2577-4573
- Recent researches in American music ; v. 89.
- Music of the United States of America ; 32.
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Recent researches In American music ; volume 89
- Music of the United States of America ; volume 32
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Old-time music--Scores.
- Old-time music.
- Folk songs--United States--Scores.
- Folk songs.
- Folk songs, English--Great Britain--Scores.
- Folk songs, English.
- Folk songs, English--Ireland--Scores.
- Great Britain.
- Ireland.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Folk songs.
- Old-time music.
- Scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 score (xlix, 546 pages)).
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., 2021.
- Language Note:
- English words.
- 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. The editors selected sources for transcriptions in a broad range of singing styles and representing many regions of the United States. The selections attempt to avoid the biases of previous collections and provide a fresh group of examples, many heretofore unseen in print. The sources for the transcriptions are recordings of traditional musicians from the 1920s through the early 1940s drawn from (1) commercial recordings of "hillbilly" musicians, and (2) field recordings in the collection of the Library of Congress's Archive of American Folk Song, now part of the Archive of Folk Culture. Each transcription is accompanied by a brief contextualizing essay discussing the song's history and influence, recording and performance information (whenever available), and an examination of the tune. The edition begins with a substantive essay about the history of folk song recordings and folk song scholarship, and the nature of traditional vocal music in the United States." -- Provided by publisher.
- 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:
- Transcriptions of 100 popular songs, taken from recordings made from the 1920s through the early 1940s.
- Includes foreword, preface, overview, two appendices, bibliography, and indexes.
- Online resource (A-R editions, viewed February 13, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-533) and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Print version: American singing heritage.
- ISBN:
- 9781987207293
- 1987207297
- OCLC:
- 1296560716
- Publisher Number:
- A089 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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