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"De Camptown Races" or "Gwine to Run All Night" (nowadays popularly known as "Camptown Races") is a folk song by American Romantic composer Stephen Foster. It was published in February 1850 by F. D. Benteen and was introduced to the American mainstream by Christy's Minstrels , eventually becoming one of the most popular folk/ Americana tunes of ...
The music of Stephen Foster was an early influence on the Australian composer Percy Grainger, who stated that hearing "Camptown Races" sung by his mother was one of his earliest musical recollections. He went on to write a piece entitled "Tribute to Foster", a composition for mixed choir, orchestra, and pitched wine glasses based on the melody ...
Conductor Andre Kostelanetz commissioned Copland to write a musical portrait of an "eminent American" for the New York Philharmonic.Copland chose President Abraham Lincoln, and used material from speeches and letters of Lincoln, as well as original folk songs of the period, including "Camptown Races" and "On Springfield Mountain". [1]
The piano enters with descending phrases crossing the 7 4 rhythm. The speed of the piece gradually increases from start to finish. The main theme then develops initially without left accompaniment and then with a characteristic figure based around the use of tenths. A drum solo using rim clicks follows, then a restatement of the theme and a ...
Millets Music Saloon "Once I Loved Thee Mary Dear" 1851: Firth, Pond & Co. William Cullen Crookshank "Onward and Upward!" 1863: Horace Waters: George Cooper "Open Thy Lattice Love" 1844: George Willig: George P. Morris "Our Bright Summer Days Are Gone" or "Our Bright Bright Summer Days Are Gone" 1861: John J. Daly "Our Willie Dear Is Dying ...
Racing is part of regular music as well. "Accelerando” and “stringendo” are terms used to indicate to the player that the piece is to pick up steam. Music that races can also quicken the pulse.
Sheet music published in California between 1852 and 1900, along with related materials such as a San Francisco publisher's catalog of 1872, programs, songsheets, advertisements, and photographs. Images of every printed page of sheet music from eleven locations have been scanned at 400 dpi, in color where indicated. University of California ...
Joseph Willcox Jenkins (15 February 1928 – 31 January 2014) was an American composer, professor of music, and musician. During his military service in the Korean War, he became the first arranger for the United States Army Chorus.