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"Lincoln and Liberty"
Music of Abraham Lincoln's Lifetime
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"Lincoln and Liberty"
(multi-media DVD)
It is not generally known that Abraham Lincoln was a devoted music lover throughout his life and someone who enjoyed all kinds of music, including rousing minstrel songs, sentimental ballads, patriotic tunes, and grand opera. Lincoln's favorite song of the Civil War era was "Dixie," ironically the rallying anthem of the South.
This multi-media DVD, "Lincoln and Liberty" - Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era, compiled and edited by music prerservationist Roger Lee Hall, contains a great deal of information about Abraham Lincoln and music of his era.
Originally published in 2009 for the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial, this new edition has been issued for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and includes additional material, including a video program about Stephen Foster's hymns composed during the Civil War years.
The 64 page Listener's Guide is included on the DVD and playable on any computer with Micosoft Word. It includes all the texts for the music album along with background notes about the music.
Accompanying with the Listener's Guide is a specially prepared music album with 24 songs and hymns from the American Music Recordings Archive, which contains over one hour of music written and popular during Abraham Lincoln's lifetime and just beyond by songwriters like Daniel D. Emmett, Stephen C. Foster, Joseph Hopkinson and others. The music is performed by various performing ensembles from original published sheet music and music arrangements.Excerpt quote from the Listener's Guide:
Black men assembled in "rejoicing meetings" all over the land on the last night of December 1862, waiting for the stroke of midnight to bring freedom to those states in the secessionist states. At the contaband camp [for runaway slaves] in Washington., D.C., the assembled blacks sang over and over again: "Go down, Moses...Let my people go."
-- Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans: A History, page 236
The titles on the "Lincoln and Liberty" music album with 8 FIRST RECORDINGS:
I. The Early Years
[Portrait of Francis Scott Key]
1. +The Star-Spangled Banner --
words by Frances Scott Key, 1814/
music: To Anacreon (1860 arrangement)
2. Hail! Columbia -- words by Joseph Hopkinson/ music: The President's March by Philip Phile
II. Lincoln in New Salem
3. Home! Sweet Home! -- words: John Howard Payne/
music: Henry R. Bishop, 1823
III. Lincoln: The Lawyer and Legislator
4. Get Off The Track --Emancipation song --words: Jesse Hutchinson, 1844/
music: Old Dan Tucker5. Gentle Annie -- words and music by Stephen C. Foster, 1856
IV. Lincoln: The 16th United States President
[Portrait of Stephen Collins Foster]6. Lincoln and Liberty -- music: Old Rosin the Beau (Lincoln's Campaign Song, 1860)
7. +The Pure, The Bright, The Beautiful --
music by Stephen C. Foster, 18638. +Over The River -- words: H.C./
music: Stephen C. Foster,1863
9. +What Shall The Harvest Be? -- words by Emily Sullivan Oakey/ music by Stephen C. Foster, 1863
10. +Choral Harp -- words: William R. Wallace/ music: Stephen C. Foster, 1863
11. +Give Us This Day -- words & music by Stephen C. Foster, 1863
V. The Civil War Decade
12. Dixie's Land (Dixie) --
Daniel D. Emmett, 1859-60
13. The Bonnie Blue Flag -- words: Harry McCarthy, 1861/
music: The Irish Jaunting Car
14. Go Down, Moses -- Afro-American spiritual
(sung when the Emancipation Proclamation was announced)15. +A Prayer For The Captive -- Shaker pacifist hymn by Cecilia DeVere
(sung by the Shakers on the day of Lincoln's funeral)
16.
a. John Brown (aka: John Brown's Body) -- 1861
b. Battle Hymn of the Republic -- words by Julia Ward Howe, 1862
(original versions) - FIRST RECORDINGS17. Cumberland Gap, 1862
18. We Are Coming, Father Abraam -- Stephen C. Foster, 1862
19. Willie Has Gone To The War -- Stephen C. Foster, 1863
20. Lorena -- words: Rev. H.D.L. Webster/ music: J.P. Webster, 1857
21. All Quiet Along the Potomac -- words: Mrs. Ethel L. Beers/
music: W.H. Goodwin, 1861
22. When Johnny Comes Marching Home -- Patrick S. Gilmore, 186323. Weeping, Sad and Lonely (When This Cruel Is Over) --
words: Charles Carroll Sawyer/ music: Henry Tucker, 186224. +Hymn of Peace (aka: Angel of Peace) --
words by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
music: "American Hymn" by Matthias Keller
(sung at the National Peace Jubilee in Boston
in commemoration of the end of the Civil War)
+ = FIRST RECORDINGS
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