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Mormon folk music mainly consisted of adaptations of popular songs, as well as of traditional folk songs from the United States and Europe. [ 5 ] : 120 Given that many early Mormon converts came from different countries and spoke different languages, music became a way of sharing and preserving one's cultural heritage, as well as a means of ...
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 ...
He wrote more than 150 songs in his life, but only nine were ever copyrighted. [14] Because Carson could not read sheet music, he had his songs transferred to standard notation by Irene Spain, the stepdaughter of the preacher Andrew Jenkins. [ 20 ]
Wilson is remembered today due to the publication of derivative works based upon, and later-day republications of, his 1910 autobiography entitled Among the Shoshones, [2] such as The White Indian Boy: The Story of Uncle Nick Among the Shoshones [3] (a volume of the World Book Company's In Pioneer Life Series), The White Indian Boy, and its ...
George Washington Johnson (c. October 1846 – January 23, 1914) was an American singer and pioneer sound recording artist. Johnson was the first African American recording star of the phonograph. [1] [2] His most popular songs were "The Whistling Coon" and "The Laughing Song".
A posthumous New Songs of Paradise, No. 6 in 1941 was the first collection to bring together all 46 of Tindley's published hymns, though in some cases stanzas that had previously been published were left out. Beams of Heaven: Hymns of Charles Albert Tindley (1851-1933) (2006) restores the full original complement of verses. [14]
Songs by the year in which they were written, or first performed, published, recorded, or released. See also the categories Albums by year and Music by year This is a container category .
1508: Joan Ambrosio Dalza – Intabolatura de lauto libro quarto, published by Ottaviano Petrucci, including the earliest known publication of music for the pavane 1509: Franciscus Bossinensis – First book of Tenori e contrabassi intabulati col sopran in canto figurato per cantar e sonar col lauto (Venice: Ottaviano Petrucci)