Full Description
The Songs of Septimus Winner is a testament to a man with an extraordinarily unusual career in music. Most modern-day readers may have never heard of Septimus Winner or Alice Hawthorne. But the music they created is now part of the pantheon of what we might now term "America's folk songs". Most Americans might remember songs such as "Ten Little Indians" or "Der Deitscher?s Dog" from their childhood just as they may know "Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Oh, Susannah!" but few know the men and women who wrote these songs or their significance to generations of nineteenth-century Americans. Septimus Winner (1827?1902) is one of these forefathers of American popular song. His musical contributions are significant: well over 300 popular songs, over 2000 arrangements of both his own and others' music, and an astounding array of pedagogical books. Culled from the original sheet music publications and presented unedited, this volume explores twenty-two of Winner's best loved songs including "Ten Little Injuns," "Whispering Hope," "Listen to the Mocking Bird," "The Deitscher's Dog" and "Give Us Back Our Old Commander."
Contents
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Introduction Part 4 1. The Popular Ballads Chapter 5 "How Sweet Are the Roses?" (1853) Chapter 6 "What Is Home without a Mother?" (1854) Chapter 7 "Our Good Old Friends" (1855) Chapter 8 "Listen to the Mocking Bird" (1856) Chapter 9 "Whispering Hope" (1868) Chapter 10 "Gone Where the Woodbine Twineth" (1870) Chapter 11 "The Bow in the Cloud" (1874) Part 12 2. The Civil War Songs Chapter 13 "Abraham's Daughter (Raw Recruits)" (1861) Chapter 14 "Ellie Rhee (Carry Me Back to Tennessee)" (1863) Chapter 15 "Give Us Back Our Old Commander, Little Mac, The People's Pride" (1863) Chapter 16 "Yes, I Would the War Were Over" (1863) Part 17 3. The Concert Songs Chapter 18 "Isabel, Lost Isabel" (1863) Chapter 19 "Resugam" (1871) Chapter 20 "Wherefore?" (1875) Chapter 21 "Gay as a Lark (Canzonetta)" (1876) Chapter 22 "The Robin's Roundelay" (1882) Part 23 4. Children's and Comic Songs Chapter 24 "Der Deitcher's Dog" (1864) Chapter 25 "The Song of Jokes" (1864) Chapter 26 "Ten Little Injuns" (1868) Part 27 5. Topical Songs Chapter 28 "That Little Church Around the Corner" (1871) Chapter 29 "Out of Work" (1877) Chapter 30 "God Save Our President" (1881) Chapter 31 Appendix: Alphabetical Listing of Songs Chapter 32 Bibliography Chapter 33 Index Chapter 34 About the Author
