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Author Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923, author.

Title Afro-American folksongs : a study in racial and national music / by Henry Edward Krehbiel.

Publication Info. New York : G. Schirmer, [1914]
©1914
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 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  782.42162 KRE    Check Shelf
Description xii, 176 pages : music ; 24 cm
Contents Folksongs in general -- Songs of the American slaves -- Religious character of the songs -- Modal characteristics of the songs -- Music among the Africans -- Variations from the major scale -- Minor variations and characteristic rhythms -- Structural features of the poems ; Funeral music -- Dances of the American Negroes -- Songs of the Black Creoles -- Satirical songs of the Creoles.
Appendix. Weeping Mary -- Some come cripple -- Neve' a man speak like this man = "O! look-a death" -- Jesus heal' de sick -- Opon de rock -- Nobody knows the trouble I see -- Roll, Jordan, roll -- Ma mourri -- Martinique love-song -- Emgann Sant-Kast = The battle of St. Cast -- Rhyvelgyrch Cadpen Morgan = Captain Morgan's march.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subject African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism.
Folk music -- United States -- History and criticism.
Folk songs, English -- United States -- History and criticism.
African Americans -- Music. (OCoLC)fst00799648
Folk music. (OCoLC)fst00929383
Folk songs, English. (OCoLC)fst00929875
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Other Form: Online version: Krehbiel, Henry Edward, 1854-1923. Afro-American folksongs. New York, G. Schirmer [©1914] (OCoLC)639801254
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