File 084 - Earlier voices : a choral miscellany from nineteenth-century New Brunswick : for SATB chorus and keyboard

2 ms. scores (iv, 36, 7 p.) : pencil + 1 ms. score (iv, 36 p.) : copies + 1 ms. score (26 p.) : typescript, with annotations

John Beckwith (1990, 2005)

File consists of the manuscript score and a copy of the originals for reproduction for a setting of 19th-century New Brunswick folk songs, commissioned by the New Brunswick Choral Federation for the Bicentenary of New Brunswick (1984). File also includes manuscript scores for the revised 1995 version, titled Six New Brunswick Songs = Six chansons du Nouveau Brunswick, which included nos. 5, 6, 7, and 8 of the original set. Source material for the original set of songs included:

1. Hail to the day spring (Stephen Humbert, Union Harmony, Saint John, 1840)
2. As for me (John Medley, Church Anthems, Fredericton, [189-?])
3. O Praise the Lord all ye his hosts (John Medley, Church Anthems, Fredericton, [189-?])
4. The Sweetest flower that blows (Edward Manning, op. 4, no. 1, New York, 1901)
5. Le départ du marin pour Boston (Chiasson and Boudreau, eds., Chansons d'Acadie, Moncton, 1972)
6. La Boulangère ; Le 25 de mai (Chiasson and Boudreau, eds., Chansons d'Acadie, Moncton, 1972)
7. The Banks of the Miramichi ; The Miramichi Fire (Manny and Wilson, eds., Songs of the Miramichi, Fredericton, 1968)
8. Duffy's Hotel ((Manny and Wilson, eds., Songs of the Miramichi, Fredericton, 1968).

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