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Apple for the teacher : thirty songs for singing while you work

Title
Apple for the teacher : thirty songs for singing while you work / collected and introduced by Jane Yolen ; music arranged by Adam Stemple ; art edited by Eileen Michaelis Smiles.
Publication
New York : H.N. Abrams, Publishers, c2005.

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Notated musicUse in library J Mu 784 ASchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Additional Authors
  • Yolen, Jane.
  • Stemple, Adam.
Description
1 score (117 p.) : col. ill.; 29 cm.
Summary
Songs relating to different jobs, as well as the working class itself. Historical information precedes each song.
Alternative Title
  • Thirty songs for singing while you work
  • 30 songs for singing while you work
  • Songs for singing while you work
Subject
  • Work songs
  • Working class > Songs and music
  • Work songs > History and criticism
Note
  • Songs with piano acc. and added chord symbols.
  • Additional verses printed as text follow each song.
Contents
Astronaut : Fire in the sky -- Barber : Barber, spare those hairs -- Bargee : The Erie Canal -- Chimney sweeper : Chimney sweeper -- Cowboy : Git along, little dogies -- Doctor : The doctor song -- Farmer : The farmer is the man -- Field hand : Cotton needs pickin' -- Fisherman : Boston come-all-ye -- Housewife : Old grumble -- Hunter : Let's go a-hunting -- Jockey : Stewball -- Laundry worker : Dashing away with the smoothing iron -- Logger : The frozen logger -- Girls : Cotton mill girls -- Miner : Down in a coal mine -- Musician (orchestra) : The orchestra -- Programmer : My father is a programmer -- Railroad engineer : Casey Jones -- Railway worker : Pat works on the railway -- Reaper : The reaper on the plain -- Rescue workers : Bodies on the line -- Shoemaker : Peg an' awl -- Street vendor : Chairs to mend -- Tarrier : Drill ye tarriers, drill -- Teacher : In the good old days -- Teamsters : The oxen song -- Telephone operator : Long distance blues -- Wait staff : Stand and wait -- Weavers : Weave-room blues.
Call Number
J MU 784 A
ISBN
  • 0810948257
  • 97808109482579 (canceled/invalid)
Title
Apple for the teacher : thirty songs for singing while you work / collected and introduced by Jane Yolen ; music arranged by Adam Stemple ; art edited by Eileen Michaelis Smiles.
Imprint
New York : H.N. Abrams, Publishers, c2005.
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Yolen, Jane.
Stemple, Adam.
Research Call Number
J MU 784 A
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