The public domain song anthology : with modern and traditional harmonization / by David Berger and Chuck Israels (2024)

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Language Note:

Forewords in English.
Principally English words.

Contents:

The musical heritage / David Berger -- Creating an American musical language / Chuck Israels -- How this book got started / Robert Schwartz -- The priceless resource / Peter Jaszi. and Abide with me -- Adeste fideles (O come, all ye faithful) -- After the ball -- After you've gone -- Aggravatin' papa (Don't you try to two-time me) -- Ah! sweet mystery of life -- Ain't we got fun -- Alexander's Ragtime Band -- Alice Blue Gown -- All by myself -- All the pretty little horses (Hush-a-bye) -- Alma mater -- Aloha 'oe -- Alouette -- Amazing grace -- America (My country, 'tis of thee) -- America the beautiful -- Anchors aweigh -- Angels we have heard on high -- Annie Laurie -- (I'll be with you in) Apple blossom time -- April showers -- The Arkansas traveler -- Asleep in the deep -- At the jazz band ball -- Auld lang syne -- Aunt Hagar's blues -- Aura Lee -- Avalon -- Ave Maria -- Away in a manger -- Baby, won't you please come home -- Ballin' the jack -- Balm in Gilead -- The band played on -- Battle hymn of the republic -- Beale St. blues -- Beautiful dreamer -- Beautiful Ohio -- Bill Bailey, won't you please come home? -- Billy boy -- Blow the man down -- The Bowery -- Buddy Bolden's blues -- Buffalo gals -- Bugle call rag (Bugle call blues) -- By the beautiful sea -- By the light of the silvery moon -- The caissons go rolling along -- Camptown races -- Careless love -- Carol of the bells -- Carolina in the morning -- Carry me back to old Virginia -- Casey Jones -- Charleston -- Chicago (Chicago, that toddling town) -- Ciribiribin -- Columbia the gem of the ocean -- Come back to Sorrento (Torna a Surriento) -- Comin' thro' the rye -- Country gardens (English country garden) -- Cradle song (Wiegenlied, Brahms's lullaby) -- Daisy Bell -- Dallas blues -- Dardanella -- Dark eyes (Ochi chyornye) -- Dear old Southland -- Dear old Stockholm (Ack värmeland, du sköna) -- Deck the halls (Nos galan) -- Deep river -- Do it again -- Down around the sheltering palms -- Down by the old mill stream -- Down by the riverside (Ain't gonna study war no more) -- Down home rag -- Down in the valley (Birmingham jail) -- Estrellita -- Farewell blues -- Fascination (Valse tzigane) -- The first noel -- Flee as a bird -- Flow gently, sweet Afton -- The flying trapeze -- The foggy, foggy dew -- For me and my gal -- Forty-five minutes from Broadway -- Frankie and Johnny -- Frère Jacques -- Funiculi-funicula -- Gee, but it's great to meet a friend from your home town -- Git along, little dogies (Whoopie ti yi yo) -- Give my regards to Broadway -- Glow worm -- Go down, Moses (Let my people go) -- Go tell Aunt Rhody -- Go tell it on the mountain -- God rest ye merry gentlemen -- Gold and silver waltz -- Goober peas -- Good King Wenceslas -- A good man is hard to find -- Goodnight, ladies -- Greensleeves -- Hail to the chief -- Hail! hail! the gang's all here! -- Happy birthday -- Hark! the herald angels sing -- Harrigan -- Has anybody here seen Kelly? -- Hearts and flowers -- Hello! my baby -- Here we go 'round the mulberry bush -- Hesitation waltz -- High society -- Hindustan -- Home on the range -- A hot time in the old town -- How ya gonna keep 'em down on the farm? (After they've seen Paree) -- Humoresque -- I ain't gonna give nobody none of my jelly roll -- I ain't got nobody -- I cried for you -- I don't want to play in your yard -- I hear a rhapsody -- I love a piano -- I love you -- I love you truly -- I never knew (I could love anybody) -- I shall not be moved -- I used to love you (But it's all over now) -- I want a girl just like the girl that married dear old Dad -- I was so young (You were so beautiful) -- I wish I could shimmy like my sister Kate -- I'll take you home again, Kathleen -- I'm always chasing rainbows -- I'm forever blowing bubbles -- I'm just wild about Harry -- I've been working on the railroad -- I've got rings on my fingers -- Ida! sweet as apple cider -- If you were the only girl in the world -- In my merry Oldsmobile -- In the evening by the moonlight -- In the gloaming -- In the good old summer time -- In the shade of the old apple tree -- In the sweet bye and bye -- Indian summer -- Indiana (Back home again in Indiana) -- It ain't gonna rain no more -- It came upon the midnight clear -- It's a long way to Tipperary -- Jada -- The jazz me blues -- Jeanie with the light brown hair -- Jingle bells -- John Henry -- Joshua fit the battle of Jericho -- Joy to the world -- Juanita -- Just a closer walk with thee -- La cucaracha -- La Marseillaise -- La paloma -- Last night on the back porch -- Let me call you sweetheart -- Li'l Liza Jane -- Linger awhile -- Listen to the mockingbird -- Little brown jug -- Livery stable blues -- (The bonnie banks o') Loch Lomond -- London Bridge -- Londonderry air (Danny boy) -- Look for the silver lining -- The love nest -- Love will find a way -- Low bridge! everybody down (Fifteen years on the Erie Canal) -- M-O-T-H-E-R -- Ma, he's making eyes at me -- Macnamara's band -- Mademoiselle from Armentières (Hinky dinky parlez-vous) -- Make me a pallet on the floor (Atlanta blues) -- The man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo -- Mandy -- Margie -- Mary had a little lamb -- Mary's a grand old name -- Meet me in St. Louis, Louis -- Memories -- Memphis blues -- Merry widow waltz (I love you so) -- Michael, row the boat ashore -- Moonlight bay -- Mother Machree -- My bonnie lies over the ocean -- My buddy -- My gal Sal -- My honey's loving arms -- My love is like a red, red rose -- My man -- My melancholy baby -- My old Kentucky home -- My wild Irish rose -- Nearer, my God, to thee -- Nobody -- Nobody knows the trouble I've seen -- Nobody knows you when you're down and out -- O little town of Bethlehem -- O sole mio! -- O Tannenbaum (O Christmas tree) -- Oh promise me -- Oh, a-rock-a my soul (Bosom of Abraham) -- Oh, dear! what can the matter be -- Oh, dem golden slippers! -- Oh, didn't he ramble -- Oh, my darling Clementine -- Oh! how I hate to get up in the morning -- Oh! you beautiful doll -- Old folks at home -- The old gray mare -- Old Macdonald had a farm -- On the Alamo -- On the banks of the Wabash far away -- On top of old Smoky -- Onward Christian soldiers -- Over there -- Pack up your troubles in your old kit bag and smile, smile, smile -- Paper doll -- Parade of the wooden soldiers -- Peg o' my heart -- A perfect day -- Play a simple melody -- Polly Wolly Doodle -- Pomp and circ*mstance -- Poor butterfly -- Pop goes the weasel -- Pretty baby -- A pretty girl is like a melody -- Put on your old grey bonnet -- Put your arms around me, honey -- Red River Valley -- Reuben and Rachel -- Rock-a-bye baby -- Rose of the Rio Grande -- Rose of Washington Square -- Rose room -- Roses of Picardy -- Row, row, row your boat -- Runnin' wild -- Sailor's hornpipe -- Santa Lucia -- Say it with music -- Scarborough Fair -- School days -- Second line (Joe Avery's blues) -- Shall we gather at the river? -- She is ma Daisy -- She'll be comin' 'round the mountain -- Shenandoah -- Shim-me-sha-wabble -- Shine on, harvest moon -- Shoo fly, don't bother me -- The sidewalks of New York -- Silent night -- Silver threads among the gold -- Simple gifts ('Tis the gift to be simple) -- Singin' the blues ('Til my daddy comes home) -- Sleep -- Sleeping beauty waltz -- Smiles -- Some of these days -- Somebody stole my gal -- Someday sweetheart -- Sometimes I feel like a motherless child -- Song of India -- Song of the Volga boatmen -- St. James Infirmary -- St. Louis blues -- (I'll build a) Stairway to paradise -- The Star Spangled Banner -- Streets of Laredo (The cowboy's lament) -- Sugar blues -- Sweet Adeline -- Sweet Betsy from Pike -- Sweet Genevieve -- Swing low, sweet chariot -- Swingin' down the lane -- Ta-ra-ra boom-de-ay! -- 'Tain't nobody's biz-ness if I do -- Take me out to the ball game -- That old gang of mine -- That's a plenty -- There is a tavern in the town -- There'll be some changes made -- They didn't believe me -- This old man -- Three o'clock in the morning -- Tico tico no fubá -- Tiger rag -- Till we meet again -- Tin roof blues -- Tishomingo blues -- A tisket, a tasket -- To a wild rose -- Too-ra-loo-ra-loo-ral -- Toot, toot, tootsie (goodbye) -- Toyland -- Trees -- Turkey in the straw -- 12th street rag -- Twelve days of Christmas -- Twinkle, twinkle little star -- Vive la compagnie -- Wabash blues -- Wait till the sun shines, Nellie -- Waltzing Matilda -- Wang wang blues -- Washington and Lee swing -- 'Way down yonder in New Orleans -- Wayfaring stranger -- We wish you a merry Christmas -- Were you there? -- What a friend we have in Jesus -- When hearts are young -- When I lost you -- When Irish eyes are smiling -- When Johnny comes marching home -- When my baby smiles at me -- When the saints go marching in -- When you and I were young, Maggie -- When you wore a tulip -- Where, oh where has my little dog gone? -- The Whiffenpoof song -- Whispering -- Who's sorry now? -- The world is waiting for the sunrise -- Yankee doodle -- The Yankee doodle boy -- Yellow dog blues -- The yellow rose of Texas -- Yes! we have no bananas -- You made me love you -- You tell me your dream, I'll tell you mine -- You'd be surprised -- You're a grand old flag -- You've got to see mamma ev'ry night (Or you can't see mamma at all).

Subject(s):

• Music—Fake books
• Popular music—United States—Scores
• Jazz—Scores
• Blues (Music)—Scores
• Hymns, English—United States—Scores
• Spirituals (Songs)—United States—Scores
• Folk songs, English—United States—Scores
• Recueils de standards
• Musique populaire—États-Unis—Partitions
• Negro spirituals—États-Unis—Partitions
• Blues (Music)
• Hymns
• Jazz
• Popular music
• Spirituals (Songs)

Genre(s):

• Jazz
• Blues (Music)
• Fakebooks (Music)
• Hymns
• Popular music
• Songs
• Spirituals (Songs)
• Folk songs
• Scores

ISBN:

9781733354301
1733354301

Format of Notated Music:

score

Medium of Performance:

singer 1 instrument 1 2

Note:

Lead sheets with two sets of chord symbols (both modern and traditional harmonizations).
"Popular music for study and performance."

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-373).

Source of Acquisition:

Purchased with funds from the Arts and Humanities Library Collections Endowment in Honor of Sherry Petska and George Middlemas ; 2018

Endowment Note:

Arts and Humanities Library Collections Endowment in Honor of Sherry Petska and George Middlemas