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Early published blues and proto-blues (1850-1915) /

"This volume is a critical edition of early blues-related sheet music, including forty-three known blues songs and instrumental compositions from the first four years of the blues industry, 1912-15, and twenty-four pre-1912 proto-blues; that is, published works stylistically related to the emer...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Muir, Peter C. (Editor)
Format: Musical Score Book
Language:English
Language Notes:English words.
Published: Middleton, Wisconsin : A-R Editions, Inc., [2024]
Series:Recent researches in American music ; Volume 93.
Music of the United States of America ; 33.
Subjects:
Blues (Music) > Scores.
Songs with piano > Scores.
Piano music (Blues) > Scores.
Blues (Music) > To 1931.
Chansons acc. de piano > Partitions.
Piano, Musique de (Blues) > Partitions.
Blues > Jusqu'à 1931.
Scores.
Blues (Music)
Table of Contents:
  • Foreward. Preface. Scope of the edition ; Acknowledgments
  • "Too blamed mean to cry": the evolution, identity, and power of early published blues. A genre is born ; The twin influences: folk blues and Tin Pan Alley ; Blues songs and instrumental blues ; The curative aspect: homeopathy and allopathy ; Black, white, and blue : the question of race ; Musical innovations: the twelve-bar sequence and blue notes ; Proto-blues and early evolution of blues ; Conclusion: a coherent genre
  • Apparatus. Sources ; Presentation of each work ; General editorial methods
  • Plates
  • Early published blues and proto-blues. Proto-blues 1850-1912. 1. I have got the blues (1850) / Sarah M. Graham, Gustave Blessner
  • 2. Oh ain't I got the blues! (1871) / A. A. Chapman
  • 3a. Looking for a bully (1895) / Joseph E. Howard
  • 3b. May Irwin's "Bully" song (1896) / Charles E. Trevathan
  • 4. Dis coon has got de blues (1897) / Ferdinand C. Mock, J. W. Murray
  • 5. I natur'ly loves that yaller man (1898) / Lawrence Deas, Jack Wilson
  • 6. Just because she made dem goo-goo eyes (1900) / Hughie Cannon, John Queen
  • 7. You needn't come home (1901) / Hughie Cannon
  • 8. I've got de blues (1901) / Chris Smith, Elmer Bowman
  • 9a. He done me wrong (1904) / Hughie Cannon
  • 9b. Bill, you done me wrong (1908) / Bert Leighton, Frank Leighton
  • 10. One o' them things? (1904) / James Chapman, Leroy Smith
  • 11. I got the blues (1908) / Antonio Maggio
  • 12. Gee, but I've got the blues (1909) / J. R. Shannon
  • 13a. I'm Alabama bound (piano version, 1909) / Robert Hoffman
  • 13b. I'm Alabama bound (song version, 1910) / Robert Hoffman, John J. Puderer
  • 14. Bad-rag (1910) / Antonio Maggio
  • 15. Stack-o-Lee (1910) / The Three White Kuhns
  • 16. Alamo rag (1910) / Ben Deely, Percy Wenrich
  • 17a. Honky tonky monkey rag (song version, 1911) / Chris Smith
  • 17b. Honky tonky monkey rag (piano version, 1911) / Chris Smith
  • 18. Oh you beautiful doll (1911) / Nat D. Ayer, A. Seymour Brown
  • 19. When ragtime Rosie ragged the rosary (1911) / Lewis F. Muir, Edgar Leslie
  • 20. I'm a "do-right" woman looking for a "do-right" man (1912) / Lewis F. Muir, Edgar Leslie
  • 21. Frankie and Johnny (1912) / Bert Leighton, Frank Leighton, Ren Shields
  • 22. You're my baby (1912) / Nat D. Ayer, A. Seymour Brown
  • 23. All night long (1912) / Shelton Brooks
  • 24. Let's go to Savannah G. A. (1912) / Lewis F. Muir, Maurice Abrahams, L. Wolfe Gilbert.
  • Blues 1912-1915. 25. The blues (1912) / Chris Smith, James Tim Brymn
  • 26. Baby seals slues (1912) / H. Franklin "Baby" Seals
  • 27a. Dallas blues (first piano version, 1912) / Anonymous
  • 27b. Dallas blues (second piano version, n.d.) / Hart A. Wand
  • 27c. Dallas blues (song version, 1918) / Hart A. Wand, Lloyd Garrett
  • 28a. The Memphis blues (piano version, 1912) / W. C. Handy
  • 28b. The Memphis blues (Song Version, 1913) / W. C. Handy, George A. Norton
  • 29a. The Negro blues (1912) / Le Roy "Lasses" White
  • 29b. Nigger blues (1913) / Le Roy "Lasses" White
  • 30a. 1913 Medley blues (orchestra version, 1913) / Alex M. Valentine, Jr.
  • 30b. 1913 Medley blues (piano version, 1913) / Alex M. Valentine, Jr.
  • 31. Blues (1913) / Edna May Burrows, Jack Stanley
  • 32. The jogo blues (1913) / W. C. Handy
  • 33. I've got the blues (1913) / Philip Baxter
  • 34a. The Florida blues (two instrumental versions, 1914) / William King Phillips
  • 34b. The Florida blues (song version, 1917) / William King Phillips, Hezekiah Jenkins, Charles A. Jones
  • 35. The original blues (1914) / Ted S. Barron
  • 36a. Fort Worth blues (manuscript version, 1914) / Euday L. Bowman
  • 36b. Fort Worth blues (published version, 1915) / Euday L. Bowman
  • 37. New York tango blues (1914) / William N. Spiller
  • 38. Alamo blues (1914) / Philip L. Eubank
  • 39. The Long Lost blues (1914) / H. Alf Kelley, J. Paul Wyer
  • 40. The Saint Louis blues (1914) / W. C. Handy
  • 41. I've got the weary blues (1914) / Johnnie Anderson, Jesse Smith
  • 42a. Kansas City blues (piano version, 1914) / Euday L. Bowman
  • 42b. Kansas City blues (song version, 1916) / Euday L. Bowman, George H. Bowles
  • 43. Blues (1914) / Billie House, Pat Patterson
  • 44. The railroad blues (1914) / Westbrook H. Carr
  • 45. Colorado blues (1914) / Euday L. Bowman
  • 46. The yellow dog rag (1914) / W. C. Handy
  • 47. I Got the blues (1914) / John E. McKinnon
  • 48. The broadway blues (1915) / Terry Sherman, J. Brandon Walsh
  • 49. Chinese blues (1915) / Oscar Gardner, Fred D. Moore
  • 50. The original Chicago blues (1915) / James White
  • 51a. Hesitation blues (1915) / Scott Middleton, Billy Smythe
  • 51b. The hesitating blues (1915) / W. C. Handy
  • 52. The tar-heel blues (1915) / James Tim Brymn
  • 53. JustbBlues (1915) / Dorothy Harris
  • 54a. Oklahoma Blues (First Version, 1915) / Willard Robison, Bud Brownie
  • 54b. Oklahoma Blues (Second Version, 1915) / Willard Robison
  • 55. The So Different Blues (1915) / William Eugene Wright
  • 56. The Jelly Roll blues (1915) / Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton
  • 57. The snakey blues (1915) / William Nash
  • 58. Old Kentucky blues (1915) / J. Homer Tutt, Salem Tutt Whitney, James J. Vaughan
  • 59. Tipperary blues (1915) / Euday L. Bowman
  • 60. The weary blues (1915) / Artie Matthews
  • 61. Rice hotel blues (1915) / Jimmie Marten
  • 62. A bunch of blues (1915) / H. Alf Kelley, J. Paul Wyer
  • 63. Mexican blues (1915) / William Eugene Wright
  • 64. The Coburn's blues (1915) / William King Phillips
  • 65. Joe Turner blues (1915) / W. C. Handy
  • 66. Bernard Hall blues (1915) / Morris Victor, Benjamin H. Homer
  • 67. The Irish blues (1915) / J. Brandon Walsh, Ernie Erdman.