The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #3744   Message #585139
Posted By: Dicho (Frank Staplin)
02-Nov-01 - 09:55 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Subject: RE: Go tell it on the Mountain
I saw the two versions in Dett and saw it listed in the Cleveland Index as Fenner, p. 174; thus decided I didn't have to look in Fenner's original. Always wrong to assume! Masato is correct, I checked and it isn't there. The Cleveland Index is also wrong! The page they cite has "Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells." I don't have the 1891 Hampton enlarged edition, so I don't know what was added then.
The edition of 1909, edited by Dett, has the version to which I referred. It is given with music on p. 78. A revised and slightly simplified version on p. III of the Appendix is the one Masato quotes. (AMS reprint of Hampton Institute's 1927 edition).