Negro Folk-Songs (The Hampton Series, Books I-IV Complete)

Authentic record of traditional plantation songs sung by students at Virginia's Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, brilliantly compiled and notated. Includes 19 transcriptions of spirituals, work-songs, and play-songs, each scored for male quartet with piano reduction of vocal parts, from Go Down, Moses to Cott'n-pickin' song. Includes discussions of social context of the times.