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From the Center for American Music Preservation (CAMP)
"Lincoln and Liberty"
New revised edition of the book!
It is not generally known that Abraham Lincoln was a devoted music lover throughout his life and someone who enjoyed all kinds of music, including rousing minstrel songs, sentimental ballads, patriotic tunes, and Grand Opera.
First published in 2009 for the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, and titled,
"Lincoln and Liberty" - Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era.
This book was written by musicologist and American music preservationist, Roger Lee Hall.The book contains lesser known Lincoln biographical information and words to the music on the audio album (AMRC CD 0012).
Sample quote from the Listener's Guide about one of the music titles:
One of the sorrow spirituals was first sung during the Civil War. Later, it was sung by The Jubilee Singers for President Ulysses S. Grant.
The President turned aside from pressing public duties to give them audience at the White House, assure them of his interest in their work, and hear them sing "Go down, Moses."
--The Story of the Jubilee Singers by J.B.T. Marsh, 1880
Black men assembled in "rejoicing meetings" all over the land on the last night of December 1862, waiting for the stroke of midnight to bring freedom to those states in the secessionist states. At the contaband camp [for runaway slaves] in Washington., D.C., the assembled blacks sang over and over again: "Go down, Moses...Let my people go."
-- Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans: A History, page 236
AMRC CD 0012:
Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era
I. The Early Years
1. The Star Spangled Banner --
words by Francis Scott key, 1814
(19th century choral version)
2. Hail! Columbia -- words by Joseph Hopkinson/
music: The President's March by Philip Phile
(patriotic song first sung when John Adams
was Second U.S. President in 1798)
II. Lincoln in New Salem
3. Home! Sweet Home -- words: John Howard Payne/
music: Henry R. Bishop, 1823
III. Lincoln: The Lawyer and Legislator
4. Emancipation Song: Get Off The Track --words: Jesse Hutchinson, 1844/
tune: Old Dan Tucker by Daniel D. Emmett5. Song of Sentiment: Gentle Annie --
words and music by Stephen C. Foster, 1856
IV. Lincoln: The 16th U.S. President
6. Lincoln and Liberty --
words: attrib. to William H. Burleigh/ tune: Rosin the Bow
(Lincoln's Campaign Song, 1860)
7.Hymn: +The Pure, The Bright, The Beautiful --
music by Stephen C. Foster, 18638.Hymn: +Over The River -- words: H.C./
music: Stephen C. Foster,1863
9.Hymn: +What Shall The Harvest Be? --
words: Emily Sullivan Oakey/ music: Stephen C. Foster, 1863
10. Hymn: +Choral Harp -- words: William R. Wallace/ music: Stephen C. Foster
11. Hymn: +Give Us This Day -- words & music by Stephen C. Foster, 1863
V. The Civil War Years
12. Dixie's Land (Dixie) --
Daniel Decatur Emmett, 1859
13. The Bonnie Blue Flag -- words: Harry McCarthy, 1861/
music: The Irish Jaunting Car
14. Go Down, Moses -- Afro-American spiritual
(sung when the Emancipation Proclamation was announced and also later)15. +A Prayer For The Captive -- Shaker pacifist hymn by Cecilia DeVere
(sung by the Shakers on the day of Lincoln's funeral)
16. +John Brown (aka: John Brown's Body, 1861) and
Battle Hymn of the Republic -- words by Julia Ward Howe, 1862
17. Cumberland Gap, 1862
18. We Are Coming, Father Abraam -- Stephen C. Foster, 1862
19. Willie Has Gone To The War -- Stephen Foster, 186320. Lorena -- words: Rev. H.D.L. Webster/ music: J.P. Webster, 1857
21. All Quiet Along the Potomac -- words: Mrs. Ethel L. Beers/
music: W.H. Goodwin, 1861
22. When Johnny Comes Marching Home -- Patrick S. Gilmore, 186323. Weeping Sad and Lonely (When This Cruel War Is Over) --
words: Charles Carroll Sawyer/ music: Henry Tucker, 1862VI. The Great National Peace Jubilee
24. +Hymn of Peace --
words: Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr./ music: Matthias Keller,
first performed in the Grand National Peace Jubilee
in Boston during June of 1869.
Read about this Peace Jubilee -- click here
+ = Premiere Recording
Performers on this album include:
The Old Stoughton Musical Society Soloists and Chorus
The Plymouth Church Choir with Leonard Hart, baritone
The Sky Pilot Gospel Choir
The Union Confederacy
Various soloists
This CD is available exclusively
from the American Music Recordings Collection (AMRC CD 0012) -- click here
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Abraham Lincoln...
"Lincoln and Liberty" - Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era
by Roger Lee Hall
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See also these related items...
"Glory, Hallelujah": Songs and Hymns of the Civil War Era
Sheet music cover for the official funeral song for Abraham Lincoln in 1865,
one of the most poignant ever written for a U.S. President,
and is available on this highly praised CD --
LINCOLN -
soundtrack music by John Williams
(CD review)
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