Stephen Foster Song Book Revised Edition Contributor(s): Foster, Stephen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0486230481 ISBN-13: 9780486230481 Publisher: Dover Publications OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 1974 Annotation: Forty favorites: "Beautiful Dreamer," "Camptown Races (Gwine to Run All Night)," "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," "Oh! Susanna," "Old Black Joe," "The Song of All Songs," "That's What's the Matter," "There Are Plenty of Fish in the Sea," "Way Down in Ca-i-ro," "When This Dreadful War Is Ended," more. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Music | Printed Music - Vocal - History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) - Music | Genres & Styles - Folk & Traditional |
Dewey: 780.3 |
LCCN: 73093542 |
Series: Dover Song Collections |
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 9" W x 11.94" (1.15 lbs) 192 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 - Topical - Civil War |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Stephen Foster's music "Is part of every Americans culture," wrote composer Virgil Thomson, and certainly this is true, for few American composers have created songs as lastingly popular as "Beautiful Dreamer," "Oh Susanna," "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair," "Swanee River" (properly "Old Folks at Home"), "Camptown Races," and "My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night." The fact remains, however, that Foster's melodies have suffered continually at the hands of revisers and arrangers, so that often whet we hear today is only a corrupt version of what Foster actually composed. |