| Description |
1 score (l, 425 p., 2 p. of plates) : ports. ; 31 cm. |
| Series |
Recent researches in American music, 0147-0078 ; v. 71 |
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Music of the United States of America ; 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 unacc.; in part unacc. melodies. |
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Includes introduction (Writing the great American family songbook) and critical report. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 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. The Arkansas traveler ; The Campbells are coming ; The devil's dream ; The girl I left behind me ; Haste to the wedding ; Highland fling ; The Irish washerwoman ; Life let us cherish ; Money musk ; Polly put the kettle on ; The 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 ; The railroader ; Roll the old chariot along ; The tread-mill -- From published sources. Concert/theater songs. The 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 ; The gipsy king ; The 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 ; The 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 ; The 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 ; The evergreen shore ; Gentle words and loving smiles ; The good old way ; The happy land ; The 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 ; The ninety and nine ; On Jordan's stormy banks ; Pull for the shore ; Rock of ages ; A shelter in the time of storm ; The star of Bethlehem ; Sweet by and by ; What shall the harvest be? ; When I can read my title clear ; Parlor songs. The battle cry of freedom ; The beacon-light of home ; Ben Bolt ; Beware! ; The blue Juniata ; Daisy Deane ; The 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 ; The old time ; Polly-wolly-doodle ; Rock me to sleep, mother ; The singin skewl ; When Johnny comes marching home ; The 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 ; The heavens declare the glory ; The song of the grass ; Three blind mice ; We are all here ; Songs of the nation. America ; Hail Columbia ; The star spangled banner ; Yankee Doodle. |
| Subject |
Songbooks, English -- United States.
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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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