Recent Researches: A 15

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Recent Researches in American Music

Benjamin Carr
Selected Secular and Sacred Songs
Edited by Eve R. Meyer


A 15	ISBN 0-89579-204-4	(1986) xxiii+86 pp.	$36.00
	ISBN 978-0-89579-204-4 (13-digit)

As a versatile performer, distinguished teacher, and prolific composer and publisher, Carr made major contributions to the vocal repertoire and to the elevation of musical taste in early America. His songs are noted for their graceful melodic lines and sensitivity to text, especially in the settings of poetry by Shakespeare and Scott.

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Contents: When Icicles Hang by the Wall; Take, Oh, Take Those Lips Away; Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred; Shakespeare's Willow; Why, Huntress, Why; Soldier, Rest!; Hymn to the Virgin. Ave Maria; Blanche of Devan; The Wandering Harper; A Weary Lot Is Thine, Sweet Maid; Allen-a-Dale; Thy Smiles Are All Decaying, Love; Noah's Dove; The Minstrel Knight; Sea of Susa; Song of the Hebrew Captive. O Sion, O Jerusalem; An Autumnal Hymn; As Pants the Hart; A Requiem; Adieu Ye Streams That Sweetly Flow; When Nights Were Cold; Ellen, Arise; The Vi'let Nurs'd in Woodland Wild (from Lessons and Exercises in Vocal Music, Op. 8)