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1 score (xli, 4 unnumbered pages of plates, 197 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles ; 31 cm
"This volume includes all of the surviving songs by German-American composer, performer, critic, and businessman Herrman S. Saroni (1823/24-1900), who is now most remembered as the owner and editor of Saroni's Musical Times (one of America's first significant music magazines). The entire date range of these songs is 1844-89, but the vast majority appeared in the 1840s and early 1850s. Saroni was among the first composers in America to combine aspects of German lieder and various features associated with popular song, and these works fuse accessibility to amateurs with sophisticated compositional techniques. Despite several indicators of success in his era, Saroni's songs are almost completely unknown today. These works deserve reconsideration and modern performance both for their historical significance and for their aesthetic value. Most of the songs in this edition were published in Saroni's lifetime, but an appendix includes a transcription of an unpublished holograph manuscript song, the original of which is also shown in two plate images"--
Child's first grief -- 'Tis best to be free -- Pequot brave -- Merry sleigh/Jingle, jingle, clear the way! -- Fratel del mio cor! -- I've thought of thee, dearest! -- Oh! Say not : Sing a careless lay! -- To my friend -- Strike soft the lute! -- Echo song : I know a noble heart! -- Let me perish in the early spring! -- My cynosure -- O'er the wildly heaving sea -- Slumber, infant! Slumber -- Thou art welcome dearest sister -- Sweet island home -- Music from afar -- Gipsy of the north -- Weep for the love that fate forbids -- Angel whose bright image -- Heart's despair -- Nay weep no more my lov'd one -- Bingen on the Rhine -- Speed away! -- Memory of the past -- Silent tear -- Lonely tear -- Lonely tear : arranged for the Spanish guitar -- Our childhood's home -- Awakening of Italy -- Saw mill -- They tell me thou art gay once more! : op. 103 -- Unroll the broad banner : A patriotic song -- Remembered song -- I wandered in the woodland -- Oh! My heart is weary waiting!, or, Summer longings -- Orphans -- Winter flowers : (1850 and 1851) -- Winter flowers : (1869) -- Full many years ago -- Anna is the one I love -- Thou'rt weeping still -- Camp troubles! Hark, the bugle resounds -- Lullaby.
Herrman S. Saroni ; edited by Lars Helgert.
Includes introduction, notes and critical report in English.
English, German, and Italian words, with German and English translations; words also printed as texts (pages xxv-xli).
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Recent researches in American music ; v. 91