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NILES, JOHN J. Impressions of a Negro Camp Meeting: Eight Traditional Tunes [Adapted and Arranged for Voice and Piano] [Score].
Carl Fischer, Inc. 1925.. First edition.Paperback. Composer, collector, and balladeer John Jacob Niles, was born in Louisville, Kentucky April 28, 1892. Niles came from a musical family. His great-grandfather was a composer, organist, and cello manufacturer; his mother, Lula Sarah Niles, taught him music theory. In 1904, Niles's family moved to a farm in rural Jefferson County where John Jacob began collecting folk music. By 1907, Niles composed his first song, "Go 'Way from My Window," based on a line of song collected from an African American farm worker. In 1925 Niles moved to New York, and published his first music collections, Impressions of a Negro Camp Meeting (1925) and Seven Kentucky Mountain Songs (1928). Niles also initiated an innovative performance career which featured traditional mountain and African American material in concert with contralto Marion Kerby, with whom he toured widely in the United States and Europe as a folk singer.. At the same time, Niles worked with photographer Doris Ulmann and accompanied her on four trips into the southern Appalachian Mountains which allowed him to continue the ballad collecting that eventually culminated in The Ballad Book (1961). He made his own lutes and Appalachian dulcimers. , CLEAN!! No marks. Light wear on cover. Includes the following: 1.) Humility; 2.) Daniel; 3.) John's Done Come Down; 4.) Next Come Sunday; 5.) Pharaoh's Army; 6.) Pray On, Brother; 7.) Drinkin' of de Wine; 8.) Heaven. The Songs in this Cycle are a record of some of Niles impressions gained while attending Negro Camp-meetings in Kentucky. They are based on traditional tunes, but are absolutely not the so-called spirituals.. Very Good. No DJ as Issued.
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