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Pages in category "Songs of the American Civil War" The following 94 pages are in this category, out of 94 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Her second posthumous album entitled Farewell Song was released in February 1982, about 12 years after her death. Her rarity album Rare Pearls was released in 1999, the nine-disc set Blow All My Blues Away (2012) and The Pearl Sessions (2012). The compilation album This Is Janis Joplin was released in 1995, about 25 years after her death.
During the American Civil War, music played a prominent role on each side of the conflict, Union (the North) and Confederate (the South). On the battlefield, different instruments including bugles, drums, and fifes were played to issue marching orders or sometimes simply to boost the morale of one's fellow soldiers.
Songs of the Civil War is a compilation album, released in 1991 by Columbia, that presents an assortment of contemporary performers recording period pieces and traditional songs, most of which date back to the American Civil War.
World War I produced many patriotic American songs, such as "Over There", written by popular songwriter George M. Cohan. Cohan composed the song on April 6, 1917, when he saw some headlines announcing America's entry into the war. [6] Cohan is also famous for penning "Yankee Doodle Dandy," an over-the-top parody of patriotic music.
"Good Bye, Old Glory" is a song published on September 29, 1865, after the end of the American Civil War. The words are by L. J. Bates with music by George Frederick Root. Its subject is the end of the war and the end of army life from a soldier's point of view. Old Glory is the Union flag. The "tattoo" in the song refers to a military drum call.
"Ashokan Farewell" / ə ˈ ʃ oʊ ˌ k æ n / is a musical piece composed by the American folk musician Jay Ungar in 1982. For many years, it served as a goodnight or farewell waltz at the annual Ashokan Fiddle & Dance Camps, run by Ungar and his wife Molly Mason, who named the tune after the Ashokan Field Campus (now the Ashokan Center) of SUNY New Paltz in Upstate New York.
Joseph Philbrick Webster, also known as J.P. Webster (February 18, 1819 – January 18, 1875), was an American songwriter and composer most notable for his musical compositions during the antebellum and American Civil War periods of United States history, and his post-war hymns.