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Danish emigrant ballads and songs / Rochelle Wright and Robert L. Wright ; music arranged and transcribed by Richard P. Smiraglia.

Other author/creatorWright, Rochelle, 1950-
Other author/creatorWright, Robert L., 1920-
Other author/creatorSmiraglia, Richard P., 1952-
Format Musical Score and Print
Publication InfoCarbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 1983.
Descriptionix, 302 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Subject(s)
Contents I-Songs promoting emigration -- II-Farewell songs -- III-Songs about gold -- IV-Songs about the Mormons -- V-The flight of the Socialist leaders -- VI-Songs about love -- VII-Homesickness and nostalgia -- VIII-Humorous and satirical songs -- IX-Danish-American songs.
Contents Do you want to be rich? -- Brothers, arise, see the light in the west -- Song by a Danish colonist -- A colonists' observations about the bad times -- Song by Danish colonists -- Colonist song -- Oh Jutland's land, you're now so far behind -- A very beautiful song -- I take my pen and write a song -- Farewell to Denmark, my beloved native land -- Farewell to Denmark -- A farewell song to family and native land -- The Jutlander's farewell song to his native land -- Danish emigrant song -- Farewell greetings to a beloved mother and two small sisters -- The west Jutland emigrant's farewell -- Danish emigrant song -- The emigrant's departure song -- A young girl's farewell -- Danish emigrant song -- The emigrant's farewell -- A farewell to Denmark and relatives and friends -- Soon light and lovely glides the ship -- Soon the ship departs from here -- Farewell to those who journey to America -- Farewell from those who depart -- Farewell song from Denmark the 14th of November 1883 -- When they departed -- Ole sat on a hill and sang -- A quite new and very sorrowful song about the forty-nine Danes, who wanted to seek their fortune in America -- New song from the emigrants about the journey from Copenhagen to Liverpool and thence to New York aboard the "William Rathbone" commanded by Captain Braett -- The burning of the steamship "Austria" -- Song about the emigrant ship's fate on the way to America -- Song from an emigrant to his home -- The journey to America with the "Thingvalla" the 19th of August, 1879 -- Song about the steamship "Gejser" of Copenhagen -- The emigrant ship "Gejser" has sunk -- The wreck of the emigrant ship "Gejser" -- My sweetheart's death aboard the "Gejser" -- Song and story about the tragic loss of the Thingvalla company's ship "Gejser" -- A song about the wreck of the steamship "Gejser" -- About the wreck of the steamship "Gejser" -- The farewell of those who went down on the "Gejser" -- Song about Jens Peter and Trine -- Song about the wreck of the emigrant ship "Danmark" -- Song about the loss of the emgrant ship "Danmark" -- Song and story about the wreck of the "Danmark" -- Song and story about the tragic wreck of the emigrant ship "Danmark" -- The loss of the emigrant ship "Norge" -- California -- Mr. Madsen's journey to California -- Hurrah for California! -- A letter from a gold digger in California to his friends in Copenhagen -- The gold digger who deceived his wife -- Lars Hansen and the nugget of gold -- The gold digger or a new and truthful song about the plucky sailor Svend Hansen from Jutland -- The gold digger's farewell -- The gold digger's farewell -- Oh, Susanna! -- Jens with the lump of gold -- The gold digger in the Klondike -- The Mormon girl's lament -- Ole Peersen and his wife Dorthe's journey to the Mormons -- The most recent new song about the two journeymen masons from Copenhagen who sold their wives -- The Mormon, the rich farmer Morten Petersen, who is going to their land of Zion -- Oh, lovely time for Zion's youthful kingdom -- Oh, Lord, please grant that I arrive -- Handcart song -- Detailed story of the departure of Pio and Geleff -- No. 2 of the sad and detailed story of Pio's and Geleff's black disappearance -- No. 3, Dream images from America, continuation of the Pio songs -- Pio's flight -- The flight to America or The leaders are gone -- News from Chicago! Louis Pio is coming! -- Louis Pio has come back -- Something about America -- The journey to America -- The journey to America -- Song about the unfaithful Maren -- The Danish girl, or Jens, who wished to journey to America -- Jens who journeyed to America -- The girl from Stevns who journeyed to America -- New song about the watchmaker who sold his wife -- Love in prison or The convict's plight -- Song about Lars and his fashionable sweetheart -- Song about the poor girl's love for the rich man -- A Danish girl who was sold -- The pastor who deceived his wife -- The man who journeyed to America -- Song and story about a domestic drama in Copenhagen -- The girl who journeyed to America -- A Danish girl's sorrowful fate -- The Danish girl in America -- The Danish girl's homesickness -- The emigrant's homesickness, far from Denmark! -- Longing for Denmark and a comparison between that country and Australia --Home to Denmark -- A song from America -- The cottage may seem small -- Skamlingsbanken -- The farmer's song -- Brothers, very far from here -- In Oleana, that's where it's good to be -- American humbug -- American humbug -- Doctoring the coffee or The trials of a grocer -- Old uncle -- The pianoforte-worker's return from America -- Danish flag and starry banner -- We will love the soil -- Oh, land with plains that have no end -- Oh, land of freedom, rich and great -- Just look, such a lovely season has come -- Oh, Danish youth on western shores.
General noteSongs with unacc. melodies; Danish words.
General noteIncludes indexes.
Bibliography noteBibliography: p. 287-291.
LCCN 82024230
ISBN0809310643

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