A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies (Taylor, Marshall William)

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Fynnjamin (2013/6/28)

Editor Marshall William Taylor
Josephine Robinson
Amelia C. Taylor
Hettie G. Taylor
Publisher. Info. Cincinnati: Marshall W. Taylor and W. C. Echols, 1882.
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Editor Marshall William Taylor
Josephine Robinson
Amelia C. Taylor
Hettie G. Taylor
Publisher. Info. Cincinnati: Marshall W. Taylor and W. C. Echols, 1883.
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Editor Marshall William Taylor
Josephine Robinson
Amelia C. Taylor
Hettie G. Taylor
Publisher. Info. Cincinnati: Cranston and Stowe, 1890.
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Work Title Plantation Melodies
Alternative. Title A Collection of Revival Hymns and Plantation Melodies by Marshall W. Taylor, D.D. Musical composition by Miss Josephine Robinson. Copied by Miss Amelia C. and Hettie G. Taylor.
Composer Taylor, Marshall William
I-Catalogue NumberI-Cat. No. None [force assignment]
First Publication. 1882
Language English
Composer Time PeriodComp. Period Romantic
Piece Style Romantic
Instrumentation voices

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The musicologist George Pullen Jackson declared this collection “the worst” of all early publications of black religious folksongs -

“its tunes are uniformly the most bafflingly illiterate strings of notes on record.”


It is true that almost all the songs in the book require some adjustment to make the words fit.