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Songs Of Septimus Winner
Michael K. Remson
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Description for Songs Of Septimus Winner
Paperback. Culled from the original sheet music publications and presented unedited, this volume explores twenty-two of Winner's best loved songs including 'Ten Little Injuns,' 'Whispering Hope,' 'Listen to the Mocking Bird,' 'The Deitscher's Dog', and 'Give Us Back Our Old Commander.' Num Pages: 144 pages, musical examples, bibliography, index, footnotes. BIC Classification: AVGH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 408.
The Songs of Septimus Winner is a testament to a man with an extraordinarily unusual career in music. Most modern-day readers may have never heard of Septimus Winner or Alice Hawthorne. But the music they created is now part of the pantheon of what we might now term "America's folk songs". Most Americans might remember songs such as "Ten Little Indians" or "Der Deitscher?s Dog" from their childhood just as they may know "Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Oh, Susannah!" but few know the men and women who wrote these songs or their significance to generations of nineteenth-century Americans. ... Read more
The Songs of Septimus Winner is a testament to a man with an extraordinarily unusual career in music. Most modern-day readers may have never heard of Septimus Winner or Alice Hawthorne. But the music they created is now part of the pantheon of what we might now term "America's folk songs". Most Americans might remember songs such as "Ten Little Indians" or "Der Deitscher?s Dog" from their childhood just as they may know "Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Oh, Susannah!" but few know the men and women who wrote these songs or their significance to generations of nineteenth-century Americans. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Scarecrow Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780810847491
SKU
V9780810847491
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About Michael K. Remson
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.
Reviews for Songs Of Septimus Winner
...well-written and fascinating look into one of the odd figures in American popular song.
Nikos Pappas
American Music, Winter 2004
Nikos Pappas
American Music, Winter 2004