Uncle Ned

Contributor:

Sable Harmonists (performer)

Name:

Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864

Date:

1848

Language:

English

Publisher:

W.C. Peters & Co.;G. Willig, Jr

Subject:

Popular music -- United States; Popular music; Minstrel music; Songs with piano; African Americans -- Songs and music; African Americans; Minstrel music -- United States

Resource Type:

Still Image

Form/Genre:

Songs with piano; Songs and music; Songs; Scores; Music; scores (documents for music)

Physical Description:

1 score (5 pages); 33 cm

Geographic Subject:

United States

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Song; for voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano.; Caption title.; Collection title on t.p.: Songs of the Sable Harmonists.; Also known by the title Old Uncle Ned.; First line of text: Dere was an old nigga.; First line of chorus: Den lay down de shubble and de hoe.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, Folio M1.A13 K4 Box 22, no. 24

Collection:

Keffer Collection of Sheet Music (University of Pennsylvania)