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"Lincoln and Liberty"
Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era
"Lincoln and Liberty" - Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era (multi-media DVD)
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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, "The Soldier's Chorus," from Gounod's FAUST).
Lincoln's favorite song of the Civil War era was "Dixie," ironically the rallying anthem of the South but composed by Northern songwriter, Daniel D. Emmett before the Civil War began.
Originally published as a book in 2009 for the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial, this new edition has been issued om a multi-media DVD for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
This multi-media DVD, "Lincoln and Liberty" - Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era, compiled and edited by musicologist, Roger Lee Hall, contains a great deal of information about Abraham Lincoln and music of his era.
The 64 page Listener's Guide is included on the DVD playable on any computer with Micosoft Word. Also, there is a video program about Stephen Foster's hymns composed during the Civil War.
Accompanying the Listener's Guide is a specially prepared music album with 24 songs and hymns from the American Music Recordings Collection, which contains over one hour of music written and popular during Abraham Lincoln's era by songwriters: Daniel D. Emmett, Stephen C. Foster,
Patrick Gilmore 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 236Song Correction:
The words to the popular campaign song for Abraham Lincoln in 1860 was titled, "Lincoln and Liberty." The words have been atrributed in many places to Jesse Hutchinson Jr., but since he died in 1853, he could not have written these words. The words probably were written by the compiler of the Republican Campiagn Songster of 1860, where the words to "Linoln and Liberty" are included. The compiler's name is William H. Burleigh.
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. Emancipation Song: Get Off The Track --words: Jesse Hutchinson, 1844/
tune: Old Dan Tucker by Daniel D. Emmett5. Gentle Annie -- words and music by Stephen C. Foster, 1856
IV. Lincoln: The 16th U.S. President and Stephen Foster Hymns
[Portrait of Stephen C. Foster]6. Lincoln and Liberty --
words: William H. Burleigh/ tune: Rosin the Bow
(Lincoln's Campaign Song, 1860)
7. Hymn: +The Pure, The Bright, The Beautiful --
music by Stephen C. Foster, 18638. Hymn: +Over The River -- words: H.C./
music: Stephen C. Foster,1863
9. Hymn: +What Shall The Harvest Be? -- words: Emily Sullivan Oakey/ music: Stephen C. Foster, 1863
10. Hymn: +Choral Harp -- words: William R. Wallace/ music: Stephen C. Foster
11. Hymn: +Give Us This Day -- words & music by Stephen C. Foster, 1863
V. The Civil War Decade
12. Dixie's Land (Dixie) --
Daniel Decatur Emmett, 1859
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)17. 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, 1869
music: "American Hymn" by Matthias Keller
(sung at the National Peace Jubilee in Boston
in commemoration of the end of the Civil War)
+ = Premiere Recording
To hear a sample music example from the CD, click this link:
"Lincoln and Liberty" - Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era
(AMRC 12)
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Living History Music Program
As part of the Living History Series, on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at the Noble & Cooley Center for Historic Preservation Museum in Granville, Massachusetts, Liz Smith introduced Roger Lee Hall, a music preservationist and composer, and author of the book,
Lincoln and Liberty: Music From Abraham Lincoln's Era.
Mr. Hall presented a patriotic music program focused on music and pictures from Abraham Lincoln’s years as the U.S. President and featured some well known songs from the Civil War era.There was also a display of Mr. Hall's CDs, DVDs and books...
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about the music of Abraham Lincoln's life, especially during the Civil War years? The illustrated lecture includes song favorites of Lincoln with recorded music examples and live singing with the audience of familiar songs.Write for more details and fees to:
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A Few Recommended CDs
In Tribute To Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln in Song -- Chris Vallillo
Abraham Lincoln Sings On! -- Douglas Jimmerson
Lincoln's Favorite Music -- Douglas Jimmerson
Read Roger Hall's review at this link to Amazon.com --Music for Abraham Lincoln -- Anne and Ridley Enslow and Friends
with Jacqueline Schwab, piano
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American Music Recordings Collection (AMRC)
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"Glory, Hallelujah": Songs and Hymns of the Civil War Era
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