19th Century Popular American Songs -amsg1.zip

These songs were transcribed using MUSICATOR, and have been sequenced for the Casio CT-670.  I have not included any dynamic control statements, as my equipment does not support that feature.  Therefore I will leave to you to add this if you have equipment to support either velocity or Control 7 commands. 
 
The songs were transcribed from a publication by Dover Inc., New York entitled POPULAR SONGS OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA, compiled by Richard Jackson.  Not all songs were necessarily origianl American compositions, some were traditional melodies adapted from European sources.  This is the first of three collections of 20 songs I hope to transcribe for this series.  For the Music of Stephen Foster see Sfos1.zip and sfos2.zip in the midi library of CIS.

MIDI FILE       TITLE                                 COMPOSER            PUB

AMSONG01.MID    ADESTE FIDELES                        JOHN WADE (?)       1803
AMSONG02.MID    ALL QUIET ALONG THE POTOMAC TO-HIGHT  JOHN HILL HEWITT    1863
AMSONG03.MID    AMERICA                               TRADITIONAL         1861
AMSONG04.MID    THE ARKANSAS TRAVELLER                TRADITIONAL         1863
AMSONG05.MID    AURA LEE                              GEORGE R. POULTON   1861
AMSONG06.MID    THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM             GEORGE F. ROOT      1862
AMSONG07.MID    BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC           TRADITIONAL         1862
AMSONG08.MID    BEAUTIFUL RIVER                       ROBERT LOWRY        1866
AMSONG09.MID    BEN BOLT                              NELSON F. KNEASS    1848
AMSONG10.MID    THE BONNIE BLUE FLAG                  TRADITIONAL         1861
AMSONG11.MID    CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINNY         JAMES A. BLAND      1878
AMSONG12.MID    CHAMPAGNE CHARLIE                     ALFRED LEE          1868
AMSONG13.MID    DARLING NELLY GRAY                    BENJAMIN R. HANBY   1856
AMSONG14.MID    DER DEITCHER'S DOG                    TRADITIONAL         1864
AMSONG15.MID    DIXIE'S LAND (DIXIE)                  DANIEL D. EMMETT    1860
AMSONG16.MID    DOWN IN ALABAM'                       J. WARNER (?)       1858
AMSONG17.MID    THE FLYING TRAPEZE                    GEORGE LEYBOURNE    1868
AMSONG18.MID    GOOBER PEAS                           TRADITIONAL         1866
AMSONG19.MID    GRANDFATHER'S CLOCK                   HENRY CLAY WORK     1876
AMSONG20.MID    HOME! SWEET HOME!                     HENRY ROWLEY BISHOP 18??

It may be of interest that the popular American song CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINNY was composed by James A. Bland one of American's early Black composers. Bland was a popular composer of songs for the Minstrial shows in the latter part of the 19th century.  He also wrote OH, DEM GOLDEN SLIPPERS and IN THE EVENING BY THE MOONLIGHT which I have included in another collection in this series.  Bland's song CARRY ME BACK TO OLD VIRGINNY was adopted with corrected words as the state song of Virginia in 1940.

Enjoy,

Larry Roberts, 71301,1145