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The Confederacy : [based on music of the South during the years 1861-65] / Richard Bales.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks M1530.3.B3 C6
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- Format:
- Sound recording
- Author/Creator:
- Bales, Richard, 1915-1998, Composer.
- Series:
- Masterworks
- Columbia masterworks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cantatas, Secular.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Songs and music.
- United States.
- Confederate States of America--Songs and music.
- Confederate States of America.
- Genre:
- Songs.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- 32 pages ; 1 audio disc (approximately 57 min.) : 33 1/3 rpm, mono ; 12 in.
- Other Title:
- General Lee's grand march.
- All quiet along the Potomac tonight.
- Bonnie blue flag.
- Lorena.
- Yellow rose of Texas.
- Somebody's darling.
- We all went down to New Orleans for Bales.
- General Robert E. Lee's farewell order to the army of northern Virginia.
- Conquered banner.
- Dixie's land.
- Dixie.
- Year of jubilo.
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Columbia, [1954?]
- System Details:
- analog
- 33 1/3 rpm
- Contents:
- General Lee's grand march
- All quiet along the Potomac tonight
- The bonnie blue flag
- Lorena
- The yellow rose of Texas
- Somebody's darling
- We all went down to New Orleans for Bales
- General Robert E. Lee's farewell order to the army of northern Virginia, Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia, April 10, 1865
- The conquered banner
- Dixie's land, with quickstep and interlude, Year of jubilo.
- Participant:
- Florence Kopleff, mezzo-soprano ; Thomas Pyle, baritone ; Edmund Jennings Lee, narrator ; Cantata Choir, Lutheran Church of the Reformation ; National Gallery Orchestra ; conducted by the composer.
- Notes:
- Columbia masterworks
- Subtitle from title page of notes.
- Principally arrangements of marches, songs, and speeches from the Civil War era for mixed voices, speaker, and orchestra.
- Recorded at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- Introduction, by Goddard Lieberson; The Confederate legend, by Bruce Catton; Lee at Appomattox, by Clifford Dowdey; biographical notes by Irving Townsend; and The songs and their origins, by Richard Bales; with lyrics, texts, and music samples (32 p.) bound in album.
- OCLC:
- 3370505
- Publisher Number:
- SL 220 Columbia
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