The Songs of Septimus Winner [Paperback]

...well-written and fascinating look into one of the odd figures in American popular song.Culled from the original sheet music publications and presented unedited, this volume explores twenty-two of Winner's best loved songs including 'Ten Little Injuns,' 'Whispering Hope,' 'Listen to the Mocking Bird,' 'The Deitscher's Dog', and 'Give Us Back Our Old Commander.'The Songs of Septimus Winner is a testament to a man with an extraordinarily unusual career in music. Most modern-day readers may have never heard of Septimus Winner or Alice Hawthorne. But the music they created is now part of the pantheon of what we might now term America's folk songs . Most Americans might remember songs such as Ten Little Indians or Der Deitscher?s Dog from their childhood just as they may know Jimmy Crack Corn or Oh, Susannah! but few know the men and women who wrote these songs or their significance to generations of nineteenth-century Americans. Septimus Winner (1827?1902) is one of these forefathers of American popular song. His musical contributions are significant: well over 300 popular songs, over 2000 arrangements of both his own and others' music, and an astounding array of pedagogical books. Culled from the original sheet music publications and presented unedited, this volume explores twenty-two of Winner's best loved songs including Ten Little Injuns, Whispering Hope, Listen to the Mocking Bird, The Deitscher's Dog and Give Us Back Our Old Commander. Chapter 1 Acknowledgments Chapter 2 Foreword Chapter 3 Introduction Part 4 1. The Popular Ballads Chapter 5 How Sweet Are the Roses? (1853) Chapter 6 What Is Home without a Mother? (1854) Chapter 7 Our Good Old Friends (1855) Chapter 8 Listen to the Mocking Bird (1856) Chapter 9 Whispering Hope (1868) Chapter 10 Gone Where the Woodbine Twineth (1870) Chapter 11 The Bow in the Cloud (1874) Part 12 2. The Civil War Songs Chapter 13 Abraham's Daughter (Raw Recruits) (1861) Chapter 14 Ellie Rhee lĂ