LEADER 03763nam 2200553 450 001 9910809794603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-1754-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501717543 035 $a(CKB)4100000004821271 035 $a(OCoLC)1080550690 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse69192 035 $a(DE-B1597)503377 035 $a(OCoLC)1037272657 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501717543 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5399880 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5399880 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004821271 100 $a20180613h20091958 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA pioneer songster $etexts from the Stevens-Douglass manuscript of Western New York, 1841-1856 /$fRobert F. Wesser 210 1$aIthaca ;$aLondon :$cFall Creek Books, an imprint of Cornell University Press,$d2009. 210 4$dİ1958 215 $a1 online resource (226 pages) 300 $aWith: Smetana, Bedr?ich. Ma? Vlast. Vltava. 300 $aProgram notes by Deryck Cooke on slipcase. 300 $aBerlin Philharmonic Orchestra ; Herbert von Karajan, conductor. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tI. Songs And Ballads From The British Isles -- $tII. American Songs And Ballads -- $tIII. Minor Groups- English And American -- $tBibliography With Short Titles -- $tIndex Of Songs 330 $aFolklorists and lovers of folk songs will delight in this collection of the lyrics of songs sung by settlers of western New York in the middle of the nineteenth century. The manuscript on which this book is based is the most important collection of traditional song-texts, British and American in origin, to survive from its period. Discovered in the 1930s in the attic of Harry S. Douglass in Arcade, New York, it was written by Julia S. and Volney O. Stevens, who transcribed nearly ninety of the songs with which their father, Artemas Stevens, so often entertained them. The Stevens family had come to Wyoming County, New York, from New England in 1836, bringing with them traditional songs and ballads. The Stevens-Douglass manuscript contains the texts of 89 songs. In A Pioneer Songster, these are organized first by their origins (36 are from the British Isles; 53 were composed in America) and then according to themes and subjects, including love, history, politics, the pioneering life, politics, murder and shipwrecks, minstrel songs, spirituals, Indian legends, temperance, and satire. The book features a general introduction and shorter introductions to each themed section. In addition, each song is accompanied by an informative headnote detailing its history, meaning, and significance.A Pioneer Songster, first published by Cornell University Press in 1958, has been edited for the enjoyment of the general reader, but in their annotation, the editors have aimed at assisting students and scholars of folklore, musicology, and American history. While preserving the manuscript's original punctuation and spelling, they have succeeded in creating a resource that will be of interest to all who care for the American folk tradition and the history of New York State. 606 $aBallads, English$zNew York (State) 606 $aSongs, English$zNew York (State) 615 0$aBallads, English 615 0$aSongs, English 676 $a398.210942 700 $aThompson$b Harold W.$01630299 702 $aCutting$b Edith E., 702 $aThompson$b Harold W., 712 02$aBerliner Philharmoniker. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809794603321 996 $aA pioneer songster$93968515 997 $aUNINA