The Songs of Septimus Winner is a testament to a man with an
extraordinarily unusual career in music. Most modern-day readers
may have never heard of Septimus Winner or Alice Hawthorne. But the
music they created is now part of the pantheon of what we might now
term "America's folk songs". Most Americans might remember songs
such as "Ten Little Indians" or "Der Deitscher?s Dog" from their
childhood just as they may know "Jimmy Crack Corn" or "Oh,
Susannah!" but few know the men and women who wrote these songs or
their significance to generations of nineteenth-century Americans.
Septimus Winner (1827?1902) is one of these forefathers of American
popular song. His musical contributions are significant: well over
300 popular songs, over 2000 arrangements of both his own and
others' music, and an astounding array of pedagogical books. Culled
from the original sheet music publications and presented unedited,
this volume explores twenty-two of Winner's best loved songs
including "Ten Little Injuns," "Whispering Hope," "Listen to the
Mocking Bird," "The Deitscher's Dog" and "Give Us Back Our Old
Commander."
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