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Old American Songs are two sets of songs arranged by Aaron Copland in 1950 and 1952 respectively, after research in the Sheet Music Collection of the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays, in the John Hay Library at Brown University. [1] Originally scored for voice and piano, they were reworked for baritone (or mezzo-soprano) and ...
The Dodger (campaign song) Long Time Ago (ballad) Simple Gifts (Shaker song) I Bought Me a Cat (children's song) Old American Songs Second set for voice and piano (also adapted for voice and orchestra) (1952) The Little Horses (lullaby) Zion’s Walls (revivalist song) The Golden Willow Tree (Anglo-American ballad) At the River (hymn tune)
Aaron Copland wrote an arrangement for it as part of Old American Songs, a collection of arrangements of folk songs. [1] "The Dodger" was said to have been used as a campaign song to belittle Republican James G. Blaine in the 1884 Presidential election between Blaine and Grover Cleveland, the Democratic candidate.
Aaron Copland (/ ˈ k oʊ p l ə n d /, KOHP-lənd; [1] [2] November 14, 1900 – December 2, 1990) was an American composer, critic, writer, teacher, pianist, and conductor of his own and other American music. Copland was referred to by his peers and critics as the "Dean of American Composers".
Edward Deming Andrews (1940), The Gift to be Simple - Songs, Dances and Rituals of the American Shakers, J.J. Augustin. Republished by Dover Publications in 1962 and 1967. ISBN 978-0-486-20022-4; Roger Lee Hall (2014/ revised edition, 2019), Simple Gifts: Great American Folk Song, PineTree Press. Multimedia disc with additional audio and video ...
Aaron Copland’s score to Martha Graham’s classic ballet offered the gift of simplicity, an evocation of open landscape and, most important, of spiritual renewal. Its promise of a new life ...
"The Boatman's Dance" is a minstrel song credited to Dan Emmett in 1843. In 1950 it was revived and arranged by Aaron Copland as part of his set of Old American Songs.. It is a celebration of the Ohio River boatmen, bawdy and wily, and is easily recognizable by its repeated clarion cry: "Hey, ho, the boatman row, sailin' on the river on the Ohio."
Ching-a-Ring Chaw (sometimes Ching-a-Ring, or Ching-a-Ring Shaw) is a song from the early days of the minstrel show tradition. A rewritten version frequently performed in modern times comes from Aaron Copland's 1952 Old American Songs song set.