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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."
Most Americans are familiar with such classic folk tunes as "Ten
Little Indians," "Oh Where, Oh Where, Has My Little Dog Gone?" and
"Listen to the Mockingbird." But the composer behind these
childhood favorites has been all but forgotten. Septimus Winner:
Two Lives in Musicchronicles the life and achievements of one man's
extraordinarily unusual career in music. Though Septimus Winner was
considered one of the forefathers of nineteenth-century American
popular song, he published his most popular and enduring works
under the female pseudonym of Alice Hawthorne. The author sheds
some much needed light on one of the most interesting anomalies in
American musical history Septimus Winner a.k.a. Alice Hawthorne.
While Winner was certainly not the first male artist to publish
under a woman's name, his case is distinct in that he created an
entire persona for Alice Hawthorne and consistently used the
pseudonym for well over three decades. "The Hawthorne Ballads," as
they were generally known in the nineteenth century, were among the
most successful songs of their day, rivaling Foster in popularity.
Why would Winner make such a choice at a time when women were
either struggling against the social conventions of the time or
were disguising their own identities with male pseudonyms? Remson
addresses this question and numerous others, shedding light on one
of the most interesting anomalies in American musical history. The
book is supplemented by alphabetical and pseudonymous listings of
Winner's songs and arrangements of his music, as well as
annotations for books, articles, and poetry written by Winner.
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