Saroni: Complete Songs, 1844–1889

xli + 197 pp.

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Musical Editions:
Item no.:
1691955
Publisher / Producer:
Producer No.:
A091
ISBN:
9781987208481

Description

This volume includes all of the surviving songs by German-American composer, performer, critic, and businessman Herrman S. Saroni (1823/24–1900), who is now most remembered as the owner and editor of Saroni’s Musical Times (one of America’s first significant music magazines). The entire date range of these songs is 1844–89, but the vast majority appeared in the 1840s and early 1850s. Saroni was among the first composers in America to combine aspects of German lieder and various features associated with popular song, and these works fuse accessibility to amateurs with sophisticated compositional techniques. Despite several indicators of success in his era, Saroni’s songs are almost completely unknown today. These works deserve reconsideration and modern performance both for their historical significance and for their aesthetic value. Most of the songs in this edition were published in Saroni’s lifetime, but an appendix includes a transcription of an unpublished holograph manuscript song, the original of which is also shown in two plate images.

Content

  1. The Child’s First Grief
  2. ’Tis Best to Be Free
  3. The Pequot Brave
  4. The Merry Sleigh / Jingle, Jingle, Clear the Way!
  5. Fratel del mio cor!
  6. I’ve Thought of Thee, Dearest!
  7. Oh! Say Not: Sing a Careless Lay!
  8. To My Friend
  9. Strike Soft the Lute!
  10. Echo Song: I Know a Noble Heart!
  11. Let Me Perish in the Early Spring!
  12. My Cynosure
  13. O’er the Wildly Heaving Sea
  14. Slumber, Infant! Slumber
  15. Thou Art Welcome Dearest Sister
  16. Sweet Island Home
  17. Music from Afar
  18. The Gipsy of the North
  19. Weep for the Love That Fate Forbids
  20. Angel Whose Bright Image
  21. The Heart’s Despair
  22. Nay Weep No More My Lov’d One
  23. Bingen on the Rhine
  24. Speed Away!
  25. Memory of the Past
  26. The Silent Tear 27a. The Lonely Tear 27b. The Lonely Tear: Arranged for the Spanish Guitar
  27. Our Childhood’s Home
  28. The Awakening of Italy
  29. The Saw Mill
  30. They Tell Me Thou Art Gay Once More!, Op. 103
  31. Unroll the Broad Banner: A Patriotic Song
  32. The Remembered Song
  33. I Wandered in the Woodland
  34. Oh! My Heart Is Weary Waiting! or Summer Longings
  35. The Orphans 37a. Winter Flowers (1850 and 1851) 37b. Winter Flowers (1869)
  36. Full Many Years Ago
  37. Anna Is the One I Love
  38. Thou’rt Weeping Still
  39. Camp Troubles! Hark, the Bugle Resounds
  40. Lullaby

Appendix Leave It with Him

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