Composition: Folk Songs of the Kentucky Mountains (McGill, Josephine)

Title Folk Songs of the Kentucky Mountains
Alternative title Twenty traditional ballads and other English folk-songs notated from the singing of the Kentucky Mountain People and arranged with piano accompaniment by Josephine McGill. Introductory note by H. E. Krehbiel.
Creators Josephine McGill (composer)
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Instrumentation voice
Number of movements 20
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First published 1917
Dedication To those in the Kentucky Mountains "who take delight in singing," these arrangements are dedicated by "The strange woman who went among them looking for Song-Ballets".
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Composition types Folksongs, Ballads
Language English
Period Early 20th century
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As I Walked Out
Babes in the Woods
Bangum and the Boar
Barbara Allen
The Cherry Tree
The Cuckoo (2 Versions)
The Forsaken Girl
The Golden Willow Tree
The Greenwood Side
The Gypsie Laddie
Her Cheek is Like Some Blooming Red Rose
John and William
Lady Gay
Little Sparrow
Lord Lovel
Lord Randal
Lord Thomas
Loving Hannah
The Mermaid
Sweet William.

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