Ring, Ring the Banjo (arr. Thomas G Degan) by Stephen Foster Sheet Music for SATB Choir at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Title Ring, Ring the Banjo (arr. Thomas G Degan)

Artist Stephen Foster

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Stephen Foster

Arranger Thomas G Degan

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 2

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher Thomas Degan

Level 1

Product ID 1551495

Genre Folk A Cappella 19th Century Early Music Historic

Instruments Choir

Product Description

Ring, Ring de Banjo is a minstrel song written in 1851. The song's words and music are from Stephen Foster. THIS ARRANGEMENT HAS BEEN UPDATED TO INCLUDE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH AND DOES NOT INCLUDE REFERENCES TO SLAVERY OR DEROGATORY RACIAL TERMS.

"The song, (originally) written to mimic the dialect of Black people in the Southern United States, is about a newly-freed slave who wishes to come back to his master's plantation. As his old master is dying, the singer plays the banjo on his old master's deathbed until he dies. It is one of "minstrelsy's most explicit evocations of the potentially violent relationship in slavery between master and slave" and inspired a number of imitators, including the abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe." -Wikipedia

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