Bibliograph

Songs of sorrow, Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave songs of the United States, Samuel Charters

Type

Label

Songs of sorrow, Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave songs of the United States, Samuel Charters

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

musicplatesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Songs of sorrow

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

892304823

Responsibility statement

Samuel Charters

Series statement

American made music series

Sub title

Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave songs of the United States

Summary

In the spring of 1862, Lucy McKim, the nineteen-year-old daughter of a Philadelphia abolitionist Quaker family, traveled with her father to the Sea Islands of South Carolina to aid him in his efforts to organize humanitarian aid for thousands of newly freed slaves. Hearing their singing during her stay, she determined to preserve as much of the music as she could. By the fall of 1862 she managed to have published the first serious musical arrangements of these songs

Table Of Contents

With voices to sing! -- Come liberty! -- Schooling of a different nature -- Scattering the seed -- Beat! beat! drums! -- De northmen, dey's got massa now -- How little we know! -- Poor Rosy, poor gal -- It is so hard -- A simple leaf -- I am no good at last words ... -- The making of Slave Songs of the United States -- Sweet, wild melodies -- Now do not disappoint us! -- My dear Luxie -- Autumn leaves

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