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Beech Mountain folk-songs and ballads
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- Creator
- collected, arranged, and provided with piano accompaniments by Maurice Matteson ; texts edited and foreword written by Mellinger Edward Henry
- Format
- Music Scores
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : G. Schirmer, [1936]
- ©1936
- Physical Details
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- 1 score (58 pages) : illustrations ; 26 cm
- OCLC
- ocm02275999
- For voice with piano acc.
- English words; also printed as text following each piece.
- "Beech Mountain, North Carolina, the district in which the songs of this collection were recorded, is one of the shorter cross-ranges lying between the Blue Ridge and Alleghany Mountains.": p. [5].
- George Colon -- On Springfield Mountain -- Black Jack Davy -- There was an old man -- Sweet Willie (Earl Brand) -- Barbara Allen -- Four nights (Our goodman) -- Lord Thomas -- O judges (The hangman's tree) -- Bolakin (Lamkin) -- Sir Hugh, or, The Jew's daughter -- Careless love -- Florilla -- Old Smoky -- Little Mohee -- The rosewood casket -- The drunkard -- The butcher boy -- Groundhog -- Weeping willow -- O'Dinah -- On the banks of the Ohio -- A wedding song -- A frail wildwood flower -- The blue-eyed boy -- Forsaken -- Come, O my love -- Broken engagement -- Sweet ferns