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An American singing heritage : songs from the British-Irish-American oral tradition as recorded in the early twentieth century
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"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-cent...
"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.
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- Creator
- edited by Norm Cohen, Carson Cohen, and Anne Dhu McLucas
- Format
- Music Scores
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 score (xlix, 546 pages) ; 31 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781987207286, 9781987207293, 1987207297, 1987207289
- OCLC
- on1290319838, on1296560716
- This volume contains melodic transcriptions, with chord symbols, 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.
- English words.
- Staff notation; Chord symbols.
- 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