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THE EARLIEST AND STILL DEFINITIVE WORK ON THE SUBJECT (MUSIC.) [ALLEN, WILLIAM FRANCIS, CHARLES PICKARD AND LUCY MCKIM GARRISON, Editors.] Slave Songs of the United States. xliv, [vi], [1]-115 pp. of printed music with footnotes. Tall 8vo, original blind-stamped green cloth; re-cased with the original spine laid down; early damp-stain to upper margins of the last 15 pages. New York: A Simpson, 1867
first edition. A monumental and groundbreaking work, "Slave Songs" was the first systematic study of the music of slaves. In an era when no electronic recording devices existed, the editors, some with "perfect pitch," had to depend on taking down the music as they heard it. The work is divided into several geographic sections, preceded by a scholarly explanation of the music and directions for singing. Invaluable in that this is as close to what was really sung by the first generations of Africans in America as we can come.
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