Emily's Songbook: Music in 1850s Albany

Edited by Mark Slobin, James Kimball, Katherine K. Preston & Dean Root. Complete Edition from the series, Recent Researches in the Oral Traditions of Music. This publication is the first-ever facsimile edition of a "binder's volume," a personal collection of sheet music, in this case that of a nineteenth-century young woman, Emily Esperanza McKissick of Albany, New York, who must have actively used her volume with her friends and family and who became a long-lived music teacher. Contains: Part 1: The Orality of Emily's Songbook and Part 2: Emily's Songbook in facsimile. Score, 344 p.