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The music and scripts of In Dahomey / edited by Thomas L. Riis.
- Format:
- Musical score
- Author/Creator:
- Cook, Will Marion, composer.
- Series:
- Music of the United States of America ; v. 5.
- Recent researches in American music ; 25.
- Recent researches in Music Online 2577-4573.
- Recent researches in American Music ; 25
- Music of the United States of America ; v.5
- Recent researches in Music Online, 2577-4573
- Standardized Title:
- In Dahomey. Vocal score
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Musicals--United States--20th century--Vocal scores with piano.
- Musicals.
- African American theater--20th century.
- African American theater.
- Genre:
- Musicals.
- Vocal scores.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 vocal score (lxxii, 245 pages)) : facsimiles, portraits.
- Place of Publication:
- Middleton, Wisconsin : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc., 2020.
- Summary:
- "With over eleven hundred performances in the United States and England between 1902 and 1905, In Dahomey became a landmark of American musical theater. Created and performed entirely by African Americans, it showcased the talent of conservatory-trained composer Will Marion Cook and the popular vaudevillians Bert Williams and George Walker. This edition presents the musical and textual materials of In Dahomey in a comprehensive piano-vocal score, with many musical numbers that were added or substituted in various early productions. This complete array of songs makes this the first publication of its type." -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Overture
- Brown-skin baby mine
- Caboceers entrance
- Chocolate drops
- The Czar
- Dat gal of mine
- Evah dahkey is a king
- Good evenin'
- Happy Jim
- Hurrah for Captain Kidd
- I may be crazy, but I ain't no fool
- I wants to be a actor lady
- I'll take a kitchen mechanic for mine
- I'm a Jonah man
- Jig
- Leader of the colored aristocracy
- Me an' de minstrel ban'
- Molly Green
- My castle on the Nile
- My Dahomian Queen
- My dear Luzon
- My lady frog
- On Broadway in Dahomey bye and bye
- On emancipation day
- On emancipation day : characteristic Negro march and two step
- Rag-time drummer
- Returned
- A rich coon's babe
- She's dancing Sue
- Society
- Swing along
- That's how the cake walk's done
- When it's all goin' out, and nothin' comin' in
- When Sousa comes to Coon-town
- When the moon shines
- Why Adam sinned.
- Notes:
- An edition of the Afro-American musical which includes the core music composed principally by Will Marion Cook (first published London, 1902) and as much of the interpolated music as can be identified from performances of the work given from 1902 to 1905. Other composers represented by more than two songs are James Vaughan and J. Leubrie Hill. Lyrics by Cook, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alex Rogers, and others. Script by Jesse Shipp (pages xlvii-lxxii).
- Piano accompaniment.
- Includes introductory essay and critical apparatus.
- Includes orchestrations of Dat gal of mine, My Dahomian Queen, and On emancipation day (pages 207-243).
- Includes discography (page 245).
- Editorial commentary includes bibliographical references.
- Online resource (A-R Editions, viewed April 3, 2020).
- OCLC:
- 1149455532
- Publisher Number:
- A025 A-R Editions, Inc. (score)
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