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Twenty-four Negro melodies : op. 59 / transcribed for the piano by S. Coleridge-Taylor ; with a preface by Booker T. Washington.

Record ID
401109
Accession number
PMC 2169
Creator
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 1875-1912.
Biographical Data
English composer.
Object title

Twenty-four Negro melodies : op. 59 / transcribed for the piano by S. Coleridge-Taylor ; with a preface by Booker T. Washington.

Uniform title
Negro melodies
Credit line
Purchased on the Cary Fund in 2013.
Notes
Original melody with text precedes each piece.
Contents
Southeast Africa. At the dawn of day = Loko ku ti ga ; The stones are very hard = Maribye ma nonoha ngopfu ; Take Nabandji = Thata Nabandji ; They will not lend me a child = A ba boleki nwawa! -- South Africa. Song of conquest = Ringendjé ; Warriors' song -- West Africa. O lo ba -- West Indies. The bamboula = African dance -- America. The angels changed my name ; Deep river ; Didn't my Lord deliver Daniel? ; Don't be weary, traveler ; Going up ; I'm troubled in mind ; I was way down a-yonder = Dum-a-lum ; Let us cheer the weary traveler ; Many thousand gone ; My Lord delivered Daniel ; Oh, he raise a poor Lazarus ; Pilgrim's song ; Run, Mary, run ; Sometimes I feel like a motherless child ; Steal away ; Wade in the water.