Songs of sorrow
Subtitle: Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave songs of the United States
By: Samuel Charters
Series: American made music series; American made music series
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781628462067
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Ethnomusicologists; Slave songs of the United States; History and criticisim; Biography; Spirituals (Songs)
Other titles: Lucy McKim Garrison and Slave songs of the United States
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: With voices to sing!; title: Come Liberty!; title: Schooling of a different nature; title: Scattering the seed; title: Beat! beat! drums!; title: De Northmen, dey's got massa now; title: How little we knew!; title: Poor Rosy, poor gal; title: It is so hard; title: A simple leaf; title: I am no good at last words...; title: The making of Slave songs of the United States; title: Sweet, wild melodies; title: Now do not disappoint us!; title: My dear Luxie; title: Autumn leaves; title: Appendix A. Slave songs of the United States : a description and commentary; title: Appendix B. "Poor Rosy, poor gal" and "Roll, Jordan roll" for voice and piano ; collected and arranged by Miss Lucy McKim, 1862; title: Appendix C. Unsigned reviews by Lucy McKim Garrison, Lucy McKim Garrison and Wendell Garrison, and Charlotte Forten.