Free America! Early songs of Resistance & Rebellion
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Free America! Early songs of Resistance & Rebellion
The Boston Camerata, Anne Azéma
[ Harmonia Mundi / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 13 September 2019
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The United States of America, a promised land?
Free America! celebrates the ideas and hopes which preoccupied the young American Republic in the years 1770-1860: the need for freedom of assembly, a willingness to rebel and go into battle fully aware of the cost, but above all, a desire for a new harmony whose songs, hymn tunes, and marches accompany the long journey to a new "promised land." A powerful message, informing the first collaboration between harmonia mundi and Anne Azéma, now leading the Boston Camerata
Tracks:
ALL UNITE!
1 | Friendly Union AA, EM 2'17
text by John L. Peasey from Hymn and Spiritual Songs (Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 1823)
music The New Union, JEREMIAH INGALLS (1764-1838) from The Christian Harmony
(Exeter, New Hampshire, 1805) with The Cuba March (Anglo-American March, 18th Century)
2 | The Cuba March EM, JL, RS, AW 1'07
Anglo-American March (18th Century)
with The New Union
JEREMIAH INGALLS
from The Christian Harmony (Exeter, New Hampshire, 1805) as 'The Warning'
3 | Bunker Hill ALL VOICES 1'49
ANDREW LAW (1749-1821)
text by Nathaniel Niles (1741-1828)
from The American Vocalist (Boston, Massachusetts, 1858)
4 | Liberty Tree JW, JF 2'49
text by Thomas Paine (1737-1809)
from The American Patriotic Songbook (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1813)
5 | Chester TUTTI 2'36
WILLIAM BILLINGS (1746-1800)
from The Singing Master's Assistant (Boston, Massachusetts, 1778)
GONE FOR A SOLDIER
6 | Captain Robert Kidd EM 1'06
Traditional ballad
ubiquitous in early manuscripts and prints (America, early 19th Century)
7 | Jolly Soldier JW, ALL VOICES 2'30
from The Social Harp (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1855)
8 | Boston March ALL INSTRUMENTS 1'19
from Moses Kimball's manuscript (Newburyport, Massachusetts, ca. 1790)
9 | Saw you my Hero TE, DR, EM, JL 1'08
from Moses Kimball's manuscript (Newburyport, Massachusetts, ca. 1790)
10 | David's Lamentation ALL VOICES 2'07
WILLIAM BILLINGS
from The Singing Master's Assistant (Boston, Massachusetts, 1778)
11 | Johnny has Gone for a Soldier CP, AA, DR 2'55
Traditional Ballad
from the Wallace House, Alan Lomax and Cecil Sharp's collections and ubiquitous in various sources
12 | Prince William's March AW, EM, JL 1'33
from Moses Kimball's manuscript (Newburyport, Massachusetts, ca. 1790)
REPENTANCE
13 | Repentance DR 2'18
Shaker song notated by OTIS SAWYER (1815-1884)
from a Sabbathday Lake Shaker manuscript (Maine, 1840)
world premiere recording
14 | Thirst for Gold TE, JW, JF 2'11
adapted from DANIEL READ (1757-1836), Russia
music ubiquitous in early American songbooks
text from The American Musical Miscellany (Northhampton, Massachusetts, 1798)
15 | My Body Rock 'Long Fever JF 2'47
16 | Didn't my Lord Deliver Daniel JW 1'34
African American oral tradition
17 | Sanctum Te TE, JW, ALL VOICES 1'28
Shaker songs notated by OTIS SAWYER
from a Sabbathday Lake Shaker manuscript (Maine, 1840)
18 | Pretty Home DR, AA, CP 1'17
Shaker song
Sister PATSY WILLIAMSON (19th Century) (Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, 1849)
19 | Hebrew Children ALL VOICES 1'50
from The Sacred Harp (Atlanta, Georgia, 1911)
THE RICH MAN
20 | False are the Men of High Degree CP 1'12
music from THOMAS COMMUCK (1804-1855) as 'Wabash'
from Indian Melodies (New York, 1845)
text by Isaac Watts (1674-1748)
21 | The Rich Man AA, CP, DR 3'15
JEREMIAH INGALLS
from The Christian Harmony (Exeter, New Hampshire, 1805)
22 | The Jolly Sailor TE, JF, JW 2'16
from The American Musical Miscellany (Northhampton, Massachusetts, 1798)
A LAND OF FREEDOM
23 | The Appletree ALL INSTRUMENTS 1'24
JEREMIAH INGALLS
from The Christian Harmony (Exeter, New Hampshire, 1805)
24 | Trumpet of Peace AA 2'09
Shaker song
from A Sacred Repository of Anthems and Hymns (Canterbury, New Hampshire, 1852)
25 | March (Clamanda) AA, CP, DR 1'51
Shaker song
from a Whitewater manuscript (Ohio, 1863-64)
26 | O Zion Arise TE 2'04
Shaker song
from a South Union manuscript (Kentucky, ca. 1840)
27 | Free Americay! E, JW, ALL VOICES, SM, PJ, AW 2'09
text after Joseph Warren (1741-1775)
music adapted from The British Grenadier (18th Century)
from The American Patriotic Songbook (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1842) T
28 | Rise Columbia! TE, CP, JF, TUTTI 3'05
music adapted from THOMAS ARNE (1710-1778), as 'Rule Britania'
from The American Musical Miscellany (Northhampton, Massachusetts, 1798)
text by Robert Treat Paine (1731-1814)
29 | Yankee Doodle, or The Lexington March TE, JW, JF, ALL INSTRUMENTS 1'19
Broadside (18th Century)
