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Thread #9425   Message #551807
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
16-Sep-01 - 06:19 PM
Thread Name: History of spirituals
Subject: RE: History of spirituals
Susan, would an alphabetized list of the songs in the older works be useful (with alternate titles as well)? Or have you already done that? There are 136 entries on the North Carolina site, but duplication and elimination of non-spiritual songs will yield perhaps 100. I think I have found a late ed. of Jubilee songs (about 139), which may just about be the verifiable total of older ones; at least it is a start. Any others will be scattered through a number of references. First lines may also help. Such a list might show the size of your project and help you to assign particular songs or song groups to people to work up. It will be an interesting task putting the data on the songs together because of the different versions used and different titles. Tain't easy, I'm thinkin'. As the songs are worked up, lyrics can be put in DT, followed by midi.