Introduction, notes and critical report in English. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Lullaby. Tis Best to Be Free -- The Pequot Brave -- The 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 -- The Gipsy of the North -- Weep for the Love That Fate Forbids -- Angel Whose Bright Image -- The Heart's Despair -- Nay Weep No More My Lov'd One -- Bingen on the Rhine -- Speed Away! -- Memory of the Past -- The Silent Tear -- The Lonely Tear -- The Lonely Tear: Arranged for the Spanish Guitar -- Our Childhood's Home -- The Awakening of Italy -- The Saw Mill -- They Tell Me Thou Art Gay Once More!, Op. 103 Unroll the Broad Banner : A Patriotic Song -- The Remembered Song -- I Wandered in the Woodland -- Oh! My Heart Is Weary Waiting! or Summer Longings -- The 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.
Summary:
"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 Most of the songs in this edition were published in Saroni's lifetime, but an appendix includes a transcription of an unpublished holograph manuscript song, the original of which is also shown in two plate images."--A-R Editions website
Series:
Recent researches In American music, 0147-0078 ; 91
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