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Stephen Foster Song Book
Paperback
Series: Dover Song Collections
Civil War Period (1850-1877)Country & FolkGeneral Songbooks
Publisher Price: $29.99
ISBN13: 9780486230481
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: Jun 1 1974
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.41 Width: 9.00 Depth: 11.94
Language: English
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.
Musicologically this volume is an important contribution to the reevaluation of Foster's work. It will also help bring people a little closer to the original work of one of America's best-loved composers. The text by Richard Jackson, head of the Americana Collection of the Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, New York Public Library, covers Foster's life and music and gives a short critical examination of each piece reproduced in this book.
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