| Description |
1 score (l, 425 pages, 2 pages of plates) : portraits ; 31 cm. |
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score |
| Series |
Recent researches in American music,
0147-0078 ;
v. 71
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Music of the United States of America ; v. 22
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Recent researches in American music ; v. 71.
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Music of the United States of America ; 22.
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| Note |
Reconstruction of a family songbook, based on the music played and sung in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little house books. |
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Principally for voice and piano, chorus (principally SATB) and piano or unaccompanied; in part unaccompanied melodies. |
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Includes introduction (Writing the great American family songbook) and critical report. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-411) and index. |
| Contents |
From the oral tradition. Children's songs. Billy boy ; Bye, baby bunting ; Pease porridge hot ; Pop goes the weasel ; Ring around the roses ; Sing a song of sixpence ; Uncle John ; Weevily wheat -- -- Fiddle tunes. Arkansas traveler ; Campbells are coming ; Devil's dream ; Girl I left behind me ; Haste to the wedding ; Highland fling ; Irish washerwoman ; Life let us cherish ; Money musk ; Polly put the kettle on ; Red heifer -- -- Folk songs. Barbara Allen ; Green grows the laurel ; Let the toast pass ; Mary of the wild moor ; Nobody ask'd you ; Old Grimes ; Railroader ; Roll the old chariot along ; Tread-mill -- -- From published sources. Concert/theater songs. Big sunflower ; De boatmen's dance ; Buffalo gals ; Buy a broom! ; Camptown races ; Captain Jinks ; Come in and shut the door ; Darling Nelly Gray ; Dixie's Land ; Down in Alabam ; De floating scow of old Virginia ; Gipsy king ; Gum tree canoe ; Home! sweet home! ; I wish I were single again ; Keep the horseshoe over the door ; Kitty Wells ; A life on the ocean wave ; Little Annie Rooney ; May queen part second : New Year's Eve ; Mistress Jinks of Madison Square ; A motto for every man ; My old Kentucky home, good night ; Nelly was a lady ; New year's come ; Oh! boys, carry me 'long ; Old Dan Tucker ; Old folks at home ; Old John Brown ; Paddle your own canoe ; Roll on silver moon ; Skidmore Guard ; Susanna ; 'Twill nebber do to gib it up so! ; Uncle Ned ; Uncle Sam's farm ; Wait for the wagon ; Where there's a will there's a way -- -- Hymns/Sunday school songs. Am I a soldier of the cross? ; Canaan ; Doxology ; Evergreen shore ; Gentle words and loving smiles ; Good old way ; Happy land ; Home of the soul ; Jerusalem, the golden ; Jesus holds my hand ; Lend a helping hand ; Merry, merry Christmas! ; Mountain of the Lord ; My Sabbath home ; Ninety and nine ; On Jordan's stormy banks ; Pull for the shore ; Rock of ages ; A shelter in the time of storm ; Star of Bethlehem ; Sweet by and by ; What shall the harvest be? ; When I can read my title clear -- -- Parlor songs. Battle cry of freedom ; Beacon-light of home ; Ben Bolt ; Beware! ; Blue Juniata ; Daisy Deane ; Gipsie's warning ; Golden years are passing by ; In dreamland far away ; In the starlight ; Jingle bells ; Lilly Dale ; Love's old sweet song ; Marching through Georgia ; Old time ; Polly-wolly-doodle ; Rock me to sleep, mother ; Singin skewl ; When Johnny comes marching home ; Whip-poor-will's song -- -- Scottish/Irish songs. All the blue bonnets ; Auld lang syne ; Bonny Doon ; Comin' thro' the rye ; Highland Mary ; My heart is sair for somebody ; Oft in the stilly night ; O whistle and I'll come to you -- -- Singing school music. Gaily now our boat is sailing ; Great is the Lord ; Heavens declare the glory ; Song of the grass ; Three blind mice ; We are all here -- -- Songs of the nation. America ; Hail Columbia ; Star spangled banner ; Yankee Doodle. |
| Subject |
Songbooks, English -- United States.
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Songbooks, English. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Notated music.
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Notated music.
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| Added Author |
Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-1957.
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Cockrell, Dale, editor.
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| ISBN |
9780895796875 |
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0895796872 |
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