The music and scripts of In Dahomey / edited by Thomas L. Riis.

Author/creator Cook, Will Marion
Format Musical Score
Publication InfoMadison, Wis. : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, ©1996.
Description1 vocal score (lxxii, 245 pages) : illustrations ; 31 cm.
Subjects

Other author/creatorRiis, Thomas Laurence.
Other author/creatorShipp, Jesse librettist.
Other author/creatorRogers, Alex, 1968- lyricist.
Other author/creatorVaughan, James, 1874-approximately 1935, composer.
Other author/creatorHill, J. Leubrie (John Leubrie), -1916, composer.
Other author/creatorDunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906 lyricist.
Uniform titleIn Dahomey. Vocal score
SeriesMusic of the United States of America ; 5
Recent researches in American music ; v. 25
Recent researches in American music ; v. 25. ^A654635
Music of the United States of America ; 5. ^A351060
Contents Overture -- Brown-skin baby mine -- Caboceers entrance -- Chocolate drops -- The Czar -- Dat gal of mine -- Evah dahkey is a king -- Good evenin' -- Happy Jim -- Hurrah for Captain Kidd -- I may be crazy, but I ain't no fool -- I wants to be a actor lady -- I'll take a kitchen mechanic for mine -- I'm a Jonah man -- Jig -- Leader of the colored aristocracy -- Me an' de minstrel ban' -- Molly Green -- My castle on the Nile -- My Dahomian Queen -- My dear Luzon -- My lady frog -- On Broadway in Dahomey bye and bye -- On emancipation day -- On emancipation day : characteristic Negro march and two step -- Rag-time drummer -- Returned -- A rich coon's babe -- She's dancing Sue -- Society -- Swing along -- That's how the cake walk's done -- When it's all goin' out, and nothin' comin' in -- When Sousa comes to Coon-town -- When the moon shines -- Why Adam sinned.
General noteAn edition of the Afro-American musical which includes the core music composed principally by Will Marion Cook (first published London, 1902) and as much of the interpolated music as can be identified from performances of the work given from 1902 to 1905. Other composers represented by more than two songs are James Vaughan and J. Leubrie Hill. Lyrics by Cook, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alex Rogers, and others. Script by Jesse Shipp (p. xlvii-lxxii).
General notePiano acc.
General noteIncludes orchestrations of Dat gal of mine, My Dahomian Queen, and On emancipation day (p. 207-243).
General noteDiscography: p. 245.
Bibliography noteEditorial commentary includes bibliographical references.
LCCN 97707961
ISBN0895793423

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