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Authentic record of traditional plantation songs sung by students at Virginia's Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, brilliantly compiled and notated. Includes 19 transcriptions of spirituals, work-songs and play-songs, each scored for male quartet with piano reduction of vocal parts, from "Go Down, Moses" to "Cott'n-pickin' song." Includes discussions of social context of the times.Burlin, Natalie Curtis is the author of 'Negro Folk-Songs' with ISBN 9780722250679 and ISBN 0722250673.
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