Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Music Examples
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Foreword: A Few Personal Words about Ruth Crawford Seeger’s The Music of American Folk Song
- Foreword
- Historical Introduction: The Salvation of Writing Things Down
- Editor’s Introduction
- Abbreviations
- The Music of American Folk Song
- Editor’s Endnotes
- Appendix 1 Songs Referred to in The Music of American Folk Song
- Appendix 2 List of Transcriptions in the Lomax Family Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
- Appendix 3 Amazing Grace/Pisgah Transcription
- Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music
- Index of Songs
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Appendix 2 - List of Transcriptions in the Lomax Family Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 March 2023
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Music Examples
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Foreword
- Foreword: A Few Personal Words about Ruth Crawford Seeger’s The Music of American Folk Song
- Foreword
- Historical Introduction: The Salvation of Writing Things Down
- Editor’s Introduction
- Abbreviations
- The Music of American Folk Song
- Editor’s Endnotes
- Appendix 1 Songs Referred to in The Music of American Folk Song
- Appendix 2 List of Transcriptions in the Lomax Family Papers, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin
- Appendix 3 Amazing Grace/Pisgah Transcription
- Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music
- Index of Songs
- Index
- Miscellaneous Endmatter
Summary
The Lomax Family Papers in the Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, contain a number of materials related to OSC and The Music of American Folk Song. These papers include several drafts of the Lomax introduction to OSC, a collection of early versions of the lyrics to many of the songs, and (at least) 34 unpublished drafts of transcriptions made by RCS which were probably intended for OSC but not used.
The items in the archives are entitled:
Our Singing Country: manuscript and notes Our Singing Country: rejected material
The difference between the number of songs RCS is said to have transcribed (“about three hundred”) and the number of songs in OSC (205) is greater than 34 (even adding the four or five mentioned in The Music of American Folk Song). Thus, there are still about 60 transcriptions unaccounted for.
The transcriptions listed below are all reasonably final drafts, with many hand markings, corrections, and addenda. For several, the sources still need to be located (a project beyond the scope of this edition). This appendix is provided not so much as an authoritative study of these recently located manuscript sources, but as a starting point for further scholarship.
Some of these songs do not have AFS numbers written on them in the Lomax Family Archives manuscripts. For many of them, in the list below, specific recording numbers have been reconstructed, and listed next to the song. Most are in Charles Seeger's Check-List of Recorded Songs (some in variant versions).
Transcriptions
1. All the Chickens in the Garden
2. Au Long du Bois
3. Au Pont de l’Anse [37 A2]
4. Auntie Sara in the Bear Grass [420 B2]
5. Cap’n Tom [236 A3]
6. Charles Giteau
7. Claude Allen [1351 A1, or 854 A2]
8. Come here, Dog
9. Daddy Be Gay [1008 A2]
10. Death Have Mercy on My Age [1312 A1]
11. Drop ‘em Down [208 A1 or 214 A1]
12. Edward Bold [1006 A2]
13. Erin's Green Shore [1441 A]
14. Glory in the Meetin’ House [1536 A2]
15. Grandfather's Dead and Laid under the Ground
16. Hattie Green [211 B2]
17. Hicks’ Farewell
18. I Just Stand and Wring My Hands and Cry [711 B1]
19. I’m Goin’ to Jine the Army [I’m Going to Join the Army, 1565 A1]
20. It May Be the Last Time [266 B3]
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- The Music of American Folk SongAnd Selected Other Writings on American Folk Music, pp. 114 - 117Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2001