[DOC] [TLE] Stephen Foster - Wikipedia [PAR] Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826  January 13, 1864), known as "the father of 
American music", was an American songwriter primarily known for his parlor and 
minstrel music. Foster wrote over 200 songs; among his best-known are "Oh! 
Susanna", .... "My Old Kentucky Home" is the official state song of Kentucky, 
adopted by... [DOC] [TLE] Important Names and Brief Bios [PAR] His act featured two of the earliest Ethiopian songs to enjoy widespread ... and 
early 1860s; regarded as the first important composer of American popular song. 
... he wrote "Oh! Susanna," "Old Folks at Home," "My Old Kentucky Home, Good ... 
One of the best-known and most successful composers of plantation songs; the... [DOC] [TLE] Singing a New Song: Stephen Foster and the New American ... [PAR] Stephen Foster's music became the backbone of the American minstrel show in 
the 1840s, .... His later adaptation of the Plantation Melody suggests that his 
abolitionist leanings .... Like Lou'siana Belle, Old Uncle Ned includes an 
ascent to the ..... My old Kentucky Home, Good night (1853), a song of extreme 
pathos,... [DOC] [TLE] American Experience | Stephen Foster | People & Events - PBS [PAR] Foster's life has become part of American legend. ... One of their principal 
activities was singing, with Stephen acting first as song leader and then 
composer. ... There he also sold some of his songs and piano pieces to a local 
music .... The minstrel songs, like the ballads, had simple melodies and 
accompaniments, but their... [DOC] [TLE] American Experience | Stephen Foster | Special Features - PBS [PAR] Plantation Melodies ... My Old Kentucky Home, Good Night! ... Like many of his 
fellow composers, Foster wrote songs that responded to the events of the day. [DOC] [TLE] Stephen Foster: America's First Pop Artist | The Stephen Foster Story ... [PAR] Classics like Camptown Races and My Old Kentucky Home have ... along with 
his other popular plantation melodies and parlor songs, created a new 
classification of music that we now refer to as American pop music. ... Stephen 
was an unknown composer at the time, having penned Susanna at the young 
age of 22. [DOC] [TLE] Songwriters Hall of Fame - Stephen Foster Biography [PAR] Fosters' songs were the first genuinely American in theme, characterizing love of 
... temperament, river life and work, politics, battlefields, slavery and plantation life
. A self-taught musician, his poems and melodies were written in a simple ... 
Foster wrote such songs as "Old Folks At Home", "My Old Kentucky Home", "Oh! [DOC] [TLE] Stephen Collins Foster facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia ... [PAR] The American composer Stephen Collins Foster (1826-1864) was one of the first 
... Many of the composer's best-known songs were written for the minstrel stage, 
... a brief trip through the plantation South on a visit to New Orleans with his wife. 
... his song "My Old Kentucky Home" was originally entitled "Poor Uncle Tom,... [DOC] [TLE] Clef Notes: July 2014 [PAR] Jul 30, 2014 ... Though not thinking of his Rhapsody at the time, Gershwin claims that ... at the 
works of American composer Aaron Copland and examining his .... Ives is known 
for his musical borrowing and quotation. ... Dvok first came in contact with 
plantation songs through his ... Borne, like a vapor, on the summer air;. [DOC] [TLE] American National Biography Online: Foster, Stephen [PAR] Only after some of his songs found their way before the public and were ... its 
tune known by members of all levels of society and all ethnic and racial groups ... 
"Nelly Was a Lady" (1849) was one of the first songs by a white author or 
composer to ... "Massa's in de Cold Ground" (1852); "My Old Kentucky Home, 
Good-Night! [DOC] [TLE] FOSTER: Foster for Brass - Naxos [PAR] Though Foster can be considered

Question: This American composer was known for his plantation melodies like "My Old Kentucky Home"
Answer: Stephen Foster