American music... (Stephen Foster was a very prolific writer)

[SoCalDem]

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/music-1.htm



http://www.pdmusic.org/foster.html

[roughsatori]

1. That is an amazing list

Thanks, but the first link would not work for me. The second link had the titles of songs that I did not even realize, or remember, that Foster had written. It made me nostalgic for a time I never knew. :)

[grasswire]

2. ah, a thread I can relate to!

I am a lover of American popular song, from early days to Tin Pan Alley.

Here are a couple of my favorite and most useful links:

http://levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/

http://www.perfessorbill.com/ be sure to check out his links, too

http://www.redhotjazz.com/

http://rrragtimer.com/

[roughsatori]

4. Thank you very much for those links

I just copied them all. I went to the levysheetmusic site, very exciting. :)

I have been meaning to catch up on American popular song for some time--this has spurred me on.

[Old and In the Way]

3. I bit more morbid on the tune names than I would have suspected

Lot's of dying tunes...of course, I'm sure the Civil War would have influenced his music..

[roughsatori]

5. Also the death rate from "Consumption" was extraordinarily high

in the USA. Funerals were a bigger part of everyday life at that time.

[SoCalDem]

6. Link corrected... I left off the "l"

http://kclibrary.nhmccd.edu/music-1.html

[grasswire]

7. I have been an antique and vintage sheet music dealer for...

...about six years, after many years of loving American song. Many, many pieces I would rather have kept than sell, but I do need to pay the bills.

[mitchum]

8. Hell, he essentially invented the American Popular Song...

-and also the archetype for the tragic American musician (Buddy Bolden, Robert Johnson, Charlie Parker, Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, Elvis Presley and many, many more)
-and his appropriation of African American music forms makes him, of course, the first rock and roller