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Performances
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General Information
| Work Title
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The American Songbag
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| Alternative. Title
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| Composer
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Sandburg, Carl
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| Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No.
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None [force assignment]
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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305 songs
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| First Publication.
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1927
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| Librettist
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Traditional
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| Language
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English
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| Dedication
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to those unknown singers, who made songs and to those who kept the songs as a living thing of heart and mind, out of love, fun and grief.
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Early 20th century
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| Piece Style
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Traditional (folk)
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| Instrumentation
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voice, piano
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| Extra Information
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This contains almost all arrangements of his collected folksongs by other composers.
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Navigation etc.
Here is the list of the arranger included in this book:
- Edward Joseph Collins (1886–1951)
- Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901–1953)
- Charles Farwell Edson (1863–1936)
- Arthur Farwell (1872–1953)
- Hazel Felman (1892–1974)
- Harry Mathena Gilbert (1879–1964)
- Lillian Rosedale Goodman (1887–1972)
- Henry P. Joslyn (1884–1931)
- R. Emmet Kennedy (1877–1941)
- Marion Lychenheim (1891–1983)
- Elizabeth Carpenter Marshall (1900–1966)
- Mollie Nemkovsky (1898–1986)
- Thorvald Otterström (1868–1942)
- Henry Francis Parks (1895–1973)
- Leo Sowerby (1895–1968)
- Alfred George Wathall (1880–1938)
