Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 224

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RARE PIECE OF MUSIC BY PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (LITERATURE AND POETRY.) DUNBAR, PAUL LAURENCE. Jump Back. Plantation Dialect Song. Words and Music by Paul L. Dunbar. 6 pages. Folio. Printed music. Cincinnati: The John Church Company, 1896
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Rare example of music written by Dunbar for one of his poems "Negro Love Song," which appeared in "Lyrics of Lowly Life" the same year. Dunbar's poems have been set to music by many composers including Will Marion Cook, William Grant Still, Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and even John Phillip Sousa. But this is the only example we could find of Dunbar setting his own composition to music. No copy located by OCLC.