Title An American singing heritage : songs from the British-Irish-American oral tradition as recorded in the early twentieth century / edited by Norm Cohen, Carson Cohen, and Anne Dhu McLucas.

Publication Info.	Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, [2021]
	©2021

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Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Talbott Reference	M2.R244 A v.89	Available

Description	1 score (l, 546 pages) ; 31 cm.
	score 1007
	staff notation 1007
	Great Britain
	Ireland
	United States
Medium of Performance	singer
Series	Recent researches In American music, 0147-0078 ; volume 89
	Music of the United States of America ; volume 32
	Recent researches in American music ; v. 89. 0147-0078
	Music of the United States of America ; 32.
Note	Includes preface and notes in English.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 525-533) and indexes.
Note	"Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, Inc."--Title page.
	Contains melodic transcriptions, with chord symbols, from various recordings made from the 1920s through the early 1940s. Includes a foreword, preface, overview, two appendices, bibliography, and indices.
Summary	"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.
Contents	Barbara Allen -- Frog he went a-courting -- House carpenter -- Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender -- Black Jack David -- Jealous lover -- Lassie Mawhee -- Sweet Willie -- Butcher boy -- Jimmie Randall (The pizen song) -- Tom Sherman's Barroom & St. James' Hospital -- Golden willow tree -- 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 -- Three babes -- Two sisters -- As the dew flies over the green valley -- Lord Daniel -- Charming Billy -- John Henry -- Sleepy desert -- Story of George Collins -- Springfield Mountain -- Ommie Wise -- Jesse James -- I've always been a rambler -- Old Joe Clark -- Little Sir Hugh -- Prisoner's song -- Old Dan Tucker -- Blind child -- Father go dig me a boat -- Cuckoo she's a fine bird -- 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 -- 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 -- Golden dagger -- Roving gambler -- Three crows -- Casey Jones -- 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 -- Two school boys -- 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 simple 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.
Language	English words.
Subject	Old-time music.
	Old-time music.
	Folk songs, English -- United States.
	Folk songs, English.
	United States.
	Folk songs, English -- Great Britain.
	Great Britain.
	Folk songs, English -- Ireland.
	Ireland.
	Folk songs.
Genre/Form	Folk songs.
	Old-time music.
	Scores.
	Old-time music.
	Folk songs.
	Scores.
	Folk music.
	Folk music.
Added Author	Cohen, Norm, 1936- editor.
	Cohen, Carson, editor.
	McLucas, Anne Dhu, 1941-2012, editor.
	American Musicological Society, sponsoring body.
ISBN	1987207289 (paperback)
	9781987207286 (paperback)
	9781987207293 (online)
	1987207297 (online)
Standard No.	9781987207286
	10.31022/A089
Music No.	A089 A-R Editions

Title An American singing heritage : songs from the British-Irish-American oral tradition as recorded in the early twentieth century / edited by Norm Cohen, Carson Cohen, and Anne Dhu McLucas.

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