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Piano-vocal score. |
| Description |
1 vocal score (iii, 168 pages) ; 31 cm. |
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vocal score |
| Medium of Performance |
voice 1 piano 1 2 |
| Description |
eth African Americans |
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nat Americans |
| Series |
Recent researches in American music,
0147-0078 ;
volume 85P
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Music of the United States of America ; volume 29P
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Recent researches in American music ; v. 85P.
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Music of the United States of America ; 29P.
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| Note |
"Lyrics and music by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, book by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles"--page 1. |
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"This piano-vocal score is prepared from the full score of Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake Shuffle along"--Title page verso. |
| Summary |
"The Broadway musical Shuffle Along ... premiered on 23 May 1921 at the Cort Theatre on 63rd Street and became the first overwhelmingly successful African American musical on Broadway. Langston Hughes, who saw the production, said that Shuffle Along marked the beginning of the Harlem Renaissance. Both black and white audiences swarmed to the show, which prompted the integration of subsequent Broadway audiences. The dances were such a smash that choreographers for white Broadway shows hired Shuffle Along chorus girls to teach their chorus lines the new steps. "Love Will Find a Way," the first successful unburlesqued love song in a black Broadway show, was so well-received that audiences demanded multiple encores. The show's influences went far beyond Broadway: Some of the period's most influential black musicians, including dancer Josephine Baker, vocalist Paul Robeson, composer Hall Johnson, and composer William Grant Still, all got their start in Shuffle Along. The editors have assembled the full score and libretto for this critical edition from the original performance materials. The critical report thoroughly explains all sources and editorial decisions. The accompanying scholarly essay examines the music, dances, and script of Shuffle Along and places this influential show in its social, racial, and historical context." Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Act One. No. 1. Overture (Orchestra) -- No. 2. Opening Chorus: "Election Day" (Chorus) -- No. 2a. Song, Dance, and Exit of Chorus (Chorus) -- No. 3. "I'm Just Simply Full of Jazz" (Miss Ruth Little, Chorus) -- No. 4. "Love Will Find a Way" (Jessie Williams, Harry Walton) -- No. 5. "Bandana Days" (Uncle Ned, Tom Sharper) -- No. 6. "Uncle Tom and Old Black Joe" (Uncle Tom, Old Black Joe) -- No. 7. "In Honeysuckle Time" (Tom Sharper) -- No. 8. "Gypsy Blues" (Jessie Williams, Miss Ruth Little, Harry Walton) -- No. 9. Finale of Act One (Entire Company) -- Act Two. No. 10. "Shuffle Along" (Traffic Officer, Chorus) -- No. 11. "I'm Just Wild About Harry" (Jessie Williams, Chorus). -- No. 12. "Sing Me to Sleep, Dear Mammy" (Harry Walton) -- No. 13. "Everything Reminds Me of You" (Harry Walton, Jessie Williams) -- No. 14. Selections by the Four Harmony Kings -- No. 15. "If You've Never Been Vamped by a Brown Skin, You've Never Been Vamped at All" (Sam Peck) -- No. 16. "Oriental Blues" (Tom Sharper, Chorus) -- No. 17. "I'm Craving for That Kind of Love" (Miss Ruth Little) -- No. 18. Entrance of Sissle and Blake (Orchestra) -- No. 19. A Few Minutes with Sissle and Blake -- No. 20. "Baltimore Buzz" (Entire Company) -- Appendix: Additional Musical Numbers. No. 14a. "Goodnight, Angeline" (The Four Harmony Kings) -- No. 14b. "When the Saints Come Marching In" (The Four Harmony Kings) -- No. 16a. "Serenade Blues" (Tom Sharper or Miss Ruth Little) -- No. 17a. "Daddy, Won't You Please Come Home?" (Miss Ruth Little) -- No. 19a. "Vision Girl" (Tom Sharper). |
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Staff notation. |
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English words. |
| Subject |
Musicals -- Vocal scores with piano.
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Musicals -- Vocal scores with piano. |
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Musicals -- Scores. |
| Genre/Form |
Dramatic music.
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Vocal scores.
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Musicals.
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Scores.
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Musicals.
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Dramatic music.
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Vocal scores.
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| Subject |
Musicals. |
| Genre/Form |
Arrangements (Music)
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Arrangements (Music)
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| Added Author |
Sissle, Noble, 1889-1975, composer, lyricist.
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Miller, Flournoy E., 1886-1971, author.
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Lyles, Aubrey L., 1884-1932, author.
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Schenbeck, Lyn, editor.
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Schenbeck, Lawrence, editor.
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Musical theatre adaptation of (work): Miller, Flournoy E., 1886-1971.
Shuffle along.
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American Musicological Society, issuing body.
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| Added Title |
Shuffle along. Vocal score
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| ISBN |
9781987205350 (paperback) |
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1987205359 (paperback) |
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9781987205367 (electronic book) |
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