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The music and scripts of In Dahomey
- Title
- The music and scripts of In Dahomey / edited by Thomas L. Riis.
- Author
- Cook, Will Marion.
- Publication
- Madison [Wis.] : Published for the American Musicological Society by A-R Editions, [1996], ©1996.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Notated music | Request in advance | 03 R241 v.25 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 1 vocal score (lxxii, 245 pages, 2 pages of plates) : illustrations; 31 cm.
- Series Statement
- Recent researches in American music, 0147-0078 ; v. 25
- Music of the United States of America ; 5
- Uniform Title
- In Dahomey. Vocal score
- Recent researches in American music ; v. 25.
- Music of the United States of America ; 5.
- Alternative Title
- In Dahomey.
- Subjects
- Note
- Musical comedy.
- With piano acc.
- Music principally by Will Marion Cook, with additional music by James Vaughan, Alex Rogers, J. Leubrie Hill, and others.
- Lyrics by Cook, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alex Rogers, and others.
- Libretto by Jesse Shipp included, with dialogue: p. xlvii-lxxii.
- Includes orchestrations of Dat gal of mine, My Dahomian Queen, and On Emancipation Day.
- Bibliography (note)
- Discography: p. 245.
- Includes bibliographical references and critical commentary.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0895793423
- OCLC
- ocm35870717
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries