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Author Cook, Will Marion.

Title The music and scripts of In Dahomey / edited by Thomas L. Riis.

Publication Info. Madison, Wis. : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, [1996]
©1996

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 Talbott Reference  M2 .R244 A v.25    Available  ---
Description 1 vocal score (lxxii, 245 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm.
vocal score
accompaniment reduced for keyboard
Series Recent researches in American music, 0147-0078 ; v. 25
Music of the United States of America ; 5
Recent researches in American music ; v. 25.
Music of the United States of America ; 5.
Note Musical comedy.
With piano accompaniment
Music principally by Will Marion Cook, with additional music by James Vaughan, Alex Rogers, J. Leubrie Hill, and others.
Lyrics by Cook, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alex Rogers, and others.
Libretto by Jesse Shipp included, with dialogue: pages xlvii-lxxii.
Includes orchestrations of Dat gal of mine, My Dahomian Queen, and On Emancipation Day (pages 207-243).
Discography: page 245.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and critical commentary.
Contents Overture -- Brown-skin baby mine -- Caboceers entrance -- Chocolate drops -- The Czar -- Dat gal of mine -- Evah dahkey is a king -- Good evenin' -- Happy Jim -- Hurrah for Captain Kidd -- I may be crazy, but I ain't no fool -- I wants to be a actor lady -- I'll take a kitchen mechanic for mine -- I'm a Jonah man -- Jig -- Leader of the colored aristocracy -- Me an' de minstrel ban' -- Molly Green -- My castle on the Nile -- My Dahomian Queen -- My dear Luzon -- My lady frog -- On Broadway in Dahomey bye and bye -- On Emancipation Day -- On Emancipation Day : [characteristic Negro march and two step] -- Rag-time drummer -- Returned -- A rich coon's babe -- She's dancing Sue -- Society -- Swing along -- That's how the cake walk's done -- When it's all goin' out, and nothin' comin' in -- When Sousa comes to Coon-town -- When the moon shines -- Why Adam sinned.
Subject Musicals -- Vocal scores.
Musicals.
Genre/Form Vocal scores.
Subject Musicals -- Excerpts -- Scores.
Musicals -- Excerpts -- Scores.
Musicals -- Librettos.
Musicals -- Librettos.
Musicals.
Genre/Form Vocal scores.
Scores.
Scores.
Librettos.
Librettos.
Excerpts.
Excerpts.
Added Author Riis, Thomas Laurence.
Shipp, Jesse, 1859-1934.
Rogers, Alex, 1876-1930.
Vaughan, James, 1874-approximately 1935.
Hill, J. Leubrie (John Leubrie), -1916.
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906.
Cook, Will Marion. In Dahomey. Libretto.
Added Title In Dahomey. Vocal score
In Dahomey
ISBN 0895793423