"Boy Scouts Marching Songs: Words and melody by Frances Densmore, accompaniment by Carl Busch. Dedicated to Mr. Ernest Thompson Seton, Chief Scout, Boy Scouts of America"
900 miles; the ballads, blues, and folksongs of Cisco Houston. [Edited for publication by Moses Asch and Irwin Silber. Musical transcription by Jerry Silverman. Duets transcribed by Ethel Raim. Additional transcriptions by Happy Traum]
A garland of rue : Lithuanian folksongs of love and betrothal / collected and edited by Kenneth Peacock ; musical transcriptions by the author ; song texts transcribed and translated by Danutė Rautinš
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Musical transcriptions
Date:
ca. 1929-37
Scope and Contents:
Includes: (1) "A Comparison between Yuma, Acoma, and Alaska Indian Songs" 19 pages. (2) Descriptive analysis of seven Acoma songs 7 pages. (3) Material relating to eight Alaska Indian songs sung by James Fox and recorded by the Reverend John W. Chapman at Anvik, Alaska. The songs are those of the waterspirit, crane, fox, owl, woodpecker, jay, porcupine, and crow. They have been identified as being Ingalik, perhaps on the basis of where they were recorded. The words, if there were any, have not been included in the transcriptions. (a) Descriptive analysis 2 pages. (b) Three sets of musical transcriptions (15 pages) plus a photostatic copy of one set. The three transcriptions differ in small but significant ways. (c) Forms used in analyzing the songs 16 pages. (d) Fragment of a note that includes information about Fox, Chapman, and the acquisition of the sound recordings by the Bureau of American Ethnology 1 page. (e) Fragment of a note about the songs and the quality of the recordings 1 page. (f) Fragment of a letter, Chapman to Densmore, May 11, 1931, including information incorporated in f, above 2 pages.
Local Numbers:
NAA MS 3137
Other Title:
A Comparison between Yuma, Acoma, and Alaska Indian Songs
Includes: "Alabama Music." Typed carbon copy of unpublished manuscript, pages 251-256. This manuscript is a brief resume of F. Densmore's work with Alabama (Alibamu) music. No date appears on the manuscript but it could not have been written before 1933 and probably was written ca. 1940's because the page numbers correspond to similar resumes for the Acoma and Winnebago. This carbon copy was received from the Densmore estate, ca. 1962. "Alabama Music" by F. Densmore, "based upon unpublished material in the possession of the Bureau of American Ethnology and used by permission," 28 pages typed carbon copy. No date appears on the title page of the manuscript but it was probably written after her return from field work among the Alabama Indians in 1933. Old Manuscript Number 3245 "Songs of the Alibamu Indians." 49 typed pages of text, including descriptive analysis of 35 songs. Submitted April 25, 1933. Old Manuscript Number 3246 "Alibamu songs of the Buffalo and other Dances." 12 typed pages of text including descriptive analysis of 12 songs. Submitted May 15, 1933. "Alabama Music by Frances Densmore." 69 typed pages of text and two portraits of the singer Charles Martin Thompson; tabulated analyses of 47 songs, and 18 pages of musical transcriptions. The text, illustrations and transcriptions are on microfilm in the Bureau of American Ethnology.
MS 1219-a Shoshoni and Apache Music, Collected and Arranged by W. J. Hoffman, M. D. , Late Organist First German Reformed Church, Reading, Pennsylvania
Lost Delta found : rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County study, 1941-1942 / John W. Work, Lewis Wade Jones, and Samuel C. Adams ; edited by Robert Gordon and Bruce Nemerov
Let your voice be heard! : songs from Ghana and Zimbabwe : call-and-response, multipart, and game songs / arranged and annotated for grades K-12 by Abraham Kobena Adzinyah, Dumisani Maraire, and Judith Cook Tucker ; musical transcriptions by Judith Cook Tucker
