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9780486418803
Authentic record of traditional plantation songs sung by students at Virginia's Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, brilliantly compiled and notated. Includes 19 transcriptions of spirituals, work-songs and play-songs, each scored for male quartet with piano reduction of vocal parts, from "Go Down, Moses" to "Cott'n-pickin' song." Includes discussions of social context of the times.Burlin, Natalie Curtis is the author of 'Negro Folk Songs' with ISBN 9780486418803 and ISBN 0486418804.
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