Slave Songs of the United States

  • Slave Songs of the United States
    Slave Songs of the United States
    By William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy McKim Garrison

    PIANO TUNING , J. Cree Fischer . Clearest , best book for beginner , amateur . Simple repairs , raising dropped notes , tuning by easy method of flattened fifths . No previous skills needed . 4 illustrations . 201pp . 5 % x 8 % .

  • Slave Songs of the United States
    Slave Songs of the United States
    By William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy McKim Garrison

    This extraordinary anthology of antebellum slave songs provides musical settings for 136 musical texts and variants, in the process devoting much commentary to the regional variations in black folk music, the social settings in which the ...

  • Slave Songs of the United States
    Slave Songs of the United States
    By William, Francis Allen

    Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves.

  • Slave Songs of the United States: 136 Songs Complete with Sheet Music and Notes on Slavery and African-American History
    Slave Songs of the United States: 136 Songs Complete with Sheet Music and Notes on Slavery and African-American History
    By William Francis Allen

    The music in this collection is divided by region; differences in vocalizing and phrases can be observed, reflecting the various localities in which slaves were raised and labored in.

  • Slave Songs of the United States
    Slave Songs of the United States
    By William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy McKim Garrison

    First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editors, all of whom collected and annotated these songs while working in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the Civil War, and also of other ...

  • Slave Songs of the United States
    Slave Songs of the United States
    By William Francis Allen, Charles Pickard Ware, Lucy McKim Garrison

    First published in 1867, Slave Songs of the United States represents the work of its three editors, all of whom collected and annotated these songs while working in the Sea Islands of South Carolina during the Civil War, and also of other ...

  • Slave Songs of the United States
    Slave Songs of the United States
    By William Francis Allen

    "It is... already becoming difficult to obtain these songs," editor WILLIAM FRANCIS ALLEN (1830-1889) wrote in the Introduction to the 1867 first edition of this extraordinary collection of "negro" spirituals.