CAMP Vocal Sampler

This special CD was prepared from recordings in the archive of
the Center for American Music Preservation (or CAMP)
and highlights 300 years of music,
from the Pilgrims Landing to the end of World War I, and
can be used in classroom teaching, for historical research,
or for personal enjoyment.

Manuscript for "My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free"
(song by Francis Hopkinson, 1759)

Broadside for "John Brown" song

The performers on the CD include:

New England Conservatory Alumni Chorus
Old Stoughton Musical Society Chorus
Plymouth Church Choir
The Sky Pilot Gospel Choir
The University of Maryland Chapel Choir
The Yankee Tunesmiths


Click on the links
to hear complete examples
(for listening only - please do nlot copy)

• 1. Of Plimoth Plantation (Narration from book by Pilgrim Governor, William Bradford)
• 2. Psalm 100 (1612)
• 3. Psalm 23 (1698)
• 4. 100 Psalm Tune New (Rev. John Tufts, ca. 1720) - first American religious tune+
• 5. My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free (Francis Hopkinson,1759)
• 6. Father and I Went Down to Camp (Yankee Doodle, 1776)
• 7. Chester (William Billings, 1778 and 1786)+
• 8. The Grand Constitution (1787)+
• 9. Ode to President George Washington(Samuel Low,1789) - from one act play+
• 10. Adams and Liberty (Thomas R.T. Paine, 1798)
• 11. Dormant(Jacob French, 1802)+
• 12. The Star Spangled Banner (Francis Scott Key, 1814) - rare 19th century choral version+
• 13. My Country 'Tis Of Thee (Samuel F. Smith, 1831)
• 14. Simple Gifts (Elder Jospeph Brackett Jr.,1848)+
• 15. Dixie's Land (Daniel D. Emmett, 1859)
• 16. Lincoln and Liberty (1860)
• 17. John Brown and Battle Hymn Of The Republic (1861-1862)+
• 18. The Bonnie Blue Flag (words: Harry McCarthy,1861)
• 19. Go Down, Moses (Spiritual, ca. 1862)
• 20. We Are Coming Father Abraam (Stephen Collins Foster)1863)
• 21. Angel of Peace (Matthias Keller/words: Oliver Wendell Holmes, 1869)+
• 22. Easter Carol (Charles E. Ives, 1892)+
• 23. George M. Cohan medley of his popular songs (1906-18)
• 24. Song Of The Marching Men (Henry K. Hadley)+
• 25. Land Of Our Hearts (George W. Chadwick, 1918)+
  
  
  + = First recording

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