Scarecrow Press
Pages: 144
Trim: 8½ x 11
978-0-8108-4749-1 • Paperback • June 2003 • $77.00 • (£59.00)
Michael K. Remson is a composer, librettist, and musicologist. He is Managing Director of the Summer Music Conservatory of the American Festival for the Arts, Houston, and served as chair of the Department of Composition, Music Theory, and Music History. He has written several articles and presented on Septimus Winner at national conferences.
Chapter 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3 Introduction
Part 4 1. The Popular Ballads
Chapter 5 "How Sweet Are the Roses?" (1853)
Chapter 6 "What Is Home without a Mother?" (1854)
Chapter 7 "Our Good Old Friends" (1855)
Chapter 8 "Listen to the Mocking Bird" (1856)
Chapter 9 "Whispering Hope" (1868)
Chapter 10 "Gone Where the Woodbine Twineth" (1870)
Chapter 11 "The Bow in the Cloud" (1874)
Part 12 2. The Civil War Songs
Chapter 13 "Abraham's Daughter (Raw Recruits)" (1861)
Chapter 14 "Ellie Rhee (Carry Me Back to Tennessee)" (1863)
Chapter 15 "Give Us Back Our Old Commander, Little Mac, The People's Pride" (1863)
Chapter 16 "Yes, I Would the War Were Over" (1863)
Part 17 3. The Concert Songs
Chapter 18 "Isabel, Lost Isabel" (1863)
Chapter 19 "Resugam" (1871)
Chapter 20 "Wherefore?" (1875)
Chapter 21 "Gay as a Lark (Canzonetta)" (1876)
Chapter 22 "The Robin's Roundelay" (1882)
Part 23 4. Children's and Comic Songs
Chapter 24 "Der Deitcher's Dog" (1864)
Chapter 25 "The Song of Jokes" (1864)
Chapter 26 "Ten Little Injuns" (1868)
Part 27 5. Topical Songs
Chapter 28 "That Little Church Around the Corner" (1871)
Chapter 29 "Out of Work" (1877)
Chapter 30 "God Save Our President" (1881)
Chapter 31 Appendix: Alphabetical Listing of Songs
Chapter 32 Bibliography
Chapter 33 Index
Chapter 34 About the Author
...well-written and fascinating look into one of the odd figures in American popular song.
— Nikos Pappas; American Music, Winter 2004