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George F. Root
The Haymakers
Edited by Dennis R. Martin
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ISBN 0-89579-192-7 |
(1984) xviii+205 pp. |
$68.00 |
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ISBN 978-0-89579-192-4
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Although Root is most often remembered for his Civil
War songs, this "operatic cantata" shows him to have been a gifted and
sensitive composer of music theater as well. The Haymakers represents
the best of the dramatic cantata, a popular nineteenth-century genre that
combined elements of American balladry with the oratorio, glee, and church
music traditions made popular by Lowell Mason and his followers. The present
edition is based on the original 1857 print published by Mason Brothers,
with all the missing accompaniments realized and with suggestions for mounting
a modern, staged performance.
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