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Creator:
Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826–1864
Title(s):
The Swanee River, or, The old folks at home : popular Negro melody with chorus for four voices / [W. Harrington].
Additional Title(s):
Old folks at home; arranged
Published/Created:
London (22 Paternoster Row, London) : Hart & Co., [1883?]
Physical Description:
1 score (3 p.) ; 36 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
M1 .H6+ v. 2 no. 36 Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Celia Hopkinson in memory of her father Frederick Herbert Dawson and grandmother Plessy Dawson
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Music (printed)
Notes:
Arr. for voice and piano, with chorus refrain.
Caption title: Old folks at home.
First line of text: Way down upon de Swanee ribber.
First line of chorus: All de world am sad and dreary.
Subject Terms:
African Americans -- Songs and music.
Hart & Co. -- Publisher.
Popular music -- United States -- To 1901.
Songs with piano.
Suwannee River (Ga. and Fla.) -- Songs and music.
Form/Genre:
Sheet music.
Contributors:
Harrington, W.
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