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Collection Number: 04020

Collection Title: Annabel Morris Buchanan Papers, 1902-1972

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Size 17.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 13000 items)
Abstract Annabel Morris Buchanan, composer, author, folk music collector, and officer of the National Federation of Music Clubs. Correspondence, field collections, writings, manuscript music, and other items documenting the career of Annabel Morris Buchanan. Included is correspondence with folklorists, musicians, poets, composers, performers, publishers, National Federation of Music Club officials, and personal correspondence. Also included are field collections, mostly of songs collected in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Maine, West Virginia, and elsewhere, between 1930 and 1960; writings, including three book manuscripts and articles incorporating songs and tales and describing Buchanan's collecting methods; manuscript music, including hand- noted scores of Buchanan's settings and compositions; a manuscript of a book of folk songs from southwestern Virginia; articles and clippings about Buchanan and about the White Top Folk Festival; photographs of the White Top Festival and the Virginia State Choral Festival, as well as photographs of Buchanan's friends, family, and professional associates; and other items.
Creator Buchanan, Annabel Morris, b. 1888.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Acquisitions Information
Received from Annabel Morris Buchanan in 1978; from Dan Patterson of the Curriculum in Folklore and from the Music Library at UNC-CH in February 1984 and September 1986; and Lyn Wolz of Ferrum, Va., in March 1984.
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Original processing and finding aid creation by Lyn Wolz and others, 1978-1979.

Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, February 1996

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Updated by: Anne Wells

Updated by: Laura Smith, February 2022

This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.

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Annabel Morris Buchanan (22 October 1888-6 January 1983), composer, writer, and folklorist, was born in Groesbeck, Tex., the daughter of the Reverend William Caruthers Morris and Anna Virginia Foster. By seven, she was composing songs, writing poems, reading music by sight, and playing the piano for her father's services. At age 15, she won a scholarship to the Landon Conservatory in Dallas and was graduated in 1896 with highest honors in performance on piano and violin and theory and composition. She taught private and college music classes at Halsell College, Okla., 1907-1908, and at Stonewall Jackson College, Abingdon, Va., 1909-1912. She married John Preston Buchanan, a lawyer, writer, and Virginia senator, from Marion, Va., in 1912 and moved to Roseacre, where they had four children.

After moving to Roseacre, Buchanan published numerous pieces of music as well as articles and poetry. She organized a Marion music club in 1923 and became president of the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs in 1927. She began studying folk music and, in 1928, organized the first Virginia State Choral Festival, consisting of traditional folk performances. In 1931, she organized the White Top Folk Festival in an attempt to open traditional folk art to the public. Eleanor Roosevelt attended the festival in 1933, but the festival was abandoned after 1939. For these festivals, Buchanan collected thousands of songs, tunes, dances, games, tales, charms, and sayings from people in the mountain areas of Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky. She published articles and gave lectures on the festival and the study, collection, and use of folk music. During this time, she also published her only book, Folk Hymns of America.

Upon her husband's death in 1937, Buchanan sold Roseacre and moved to Richmond, Va., with her two youngest children. She taught music theory and composition and folk music at the University of Richmond, 1939-1940; during the summers, at the New England Music Camp, Lake Messalonskee, Oakland, Me., 1938-1940; and Huckleberry Mountain Artists Colony near Hendersonville, N.C., in 1941. She later moved to Harrisonburg, Va., and taught at Madison College from 1944 to 1948. In 1951, Buchanan moved to Paducah, Ky., and continued to write, compose, collect folklore, and organize societies, such as the Southeastern Folklore Society, the American Folklore Society, and the Kentucky Folklore Society. She received honorary life memberships in the Composers-Authors Guild, the Eugene Field and Mark Twain Societies, and in the National Federation of Music Clubs. She was also made an honorary citizen of San Jose California in 1954 when her choral work "Song of the Cherubim" was premiered at the Montalvo Artists Colony. Later, she became archivist for the folk music collecting project of the National Federation of Music Clubs, where she served until 1963.

[For further information, see "Annabel Morris Buchanan: A Profile of Her Contributions to Folklore," thesis by Carolyn Lelear (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina, 1978) and biographical sketches in Who's Who of American, Women (5th ed., 1967), Directory of American Scholars (5th ed., 1968-69), and Dictionary of International Biography (8th ed., 1970).]

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Correspondence, field collections, writings, manuscript music, and other items documenting the career of Annabel Morris Buchanan. Included is correspondence with folklorists, musicians, poets, composers, performers, publishers, National Federation of Music Club officials, and personal correspondence. Also included are field collections, mostly of songs collected in Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Maine, West Virginia, and elsewhere, between 1930 and 1960; writings, including three book manuscripts and articles incorporating songs and tales and describing Buchanan's collecting methods; manuscript music, including hand- noted scores of Buchanan's settings and compositions; a manuscript of a book of folk songs from southwestern Virginia; articles and clippings about Buchanan and about the White Top Folk Festival; photographs of the White Top Festival and the Virginia State Choral Festival, as well as photographs of Buchanan's friends, family, and professional associates; and other items.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. Correspondence and Related Items, 1915-1972.

About 4,500 items.

Arrangement: chronological.

Professional and personal correspondence; speeches; and articles, clippings, and printed material. Letters between 1915 and 1932 deal with the permission, acknowledgement, acceptance or rejection of and payment for manuscripts, including songs, short stories, articles, and her novel. There are also many letters from concert singers and musicians who performed her songs. From 1933 to 1962, Buchanan corresponded with other folklorists about a variety of topics including the collection of folk songs; their work with professional societies; the publication of articles on folk music; theories about the modal structure of folk music; and research on folk hymns and her book, Folk Hymns of America. Correspondence, 1937-1938, 1955-1958, and 1960, is chiefly concerned with this book.

Correspondence pertaining to the White Top Folk Festival, which Buchanan organized, 1931-1939, appears mainly from 1932 to 1936 and includes letters of invitation to lecturers and guests; letters to John Blakemore, the festival's business manager; publicity information; and lists of participants. Scattered references to the festival are made in other years, notably in an article written by John Blakemore in 1959 and in another article written by Ulrich Troubetskoy for Virginia Cavalcade magazine in 1961.

Correspondence, 1958-1963, deals with Buchanan's position as National Archivist for the National Federation of Music Clubs' folk song collecting project. The club set up regional, state, and local archives and a separate collection at the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Buchanan received advice and contributions from librarians, members of the music club, and folklorists, such as Rae Korson, librarian of the Archive of American Folk Song, and Vera Dougan, Ada Holding Miller, Mary Agnes Starr, Nora McGee, and Charles Iler, officers of the NFMC. Correspondence is heaviest from 1961 to 1963.

The volume of correspondence decreases after 1963, when Buchanan retired from the office of archivist. Letters after 1963 are concerned mainly with the copyright renewals of Buchanan's songs. The final folder of correspondence contains undated materials that are mostly personal letters and publisher's rejection slips.

Those with whom Buchanan exchanged letters include D. K. Wilgus, Olga Rosmanith, Sarah Gertrude Knott, William Kock, Anne Grimes, Carleton Sprague Smith, MacEdward Leach, Louise Pound, Richard Chase, Mary O. Eddy, Alan Lomax, Herbert Halpert, Wayland Jand, John Blakemore, Samuel P. Bayard, E. C. Beck, Ernest La Prade (of the National Broadcasting Corp.), Jimmie Driftwood (James C. Morris), and Paul C. Brewster. There is also slight, scattered correspondence from Maud Karpeles, Joe Hickerson, Fannie Eckstrom, Frank Warner, John Powell, Alton C. Morris, Helen Hartness Flanders, Percy Grainger, and George Korson. Correspondence with three scholars, Phillips Barry, Anne G. Gilchrist, and George Pullen Jackson, is filed at the end of Series 2 with the materials they sent Buchanan.

This series also includes articles and clippings about Buchanan and the White Top Folk Festival; texts of speeches; programs and materials for courses given by Buchanan, many on folk music; reviews of Folk Hymns of America; royalty statements; poems written by others that Buchanan wanted to set to music; writings of John P. Buchanan; articles by and about John Powell; National Folk Festival programs; clippings about the Virginia State Choral Festival; a file on awards Buchanan received; and other materials.

Folder 1

Correspondence 1915-1925

Folder 2

Correspondence 1926-1928

Folder 3

Correspondence 1929-1930

Folder 4

Correspondence 1931-1932

Folder 5-6

Folder 5

Folder 6

Correspondence 1933

Folder 7

Correspondence 1934

Folder 8-9

Folder 8

Folder 9

Correspondence 1935

Folder 10-11

Folder 10

Folder 11

Correspondence 1936

Folder 12-13

Folder 12

Folder 13

Correspondence 1937

Folder 14-16

Folder 14

Folder 15

Folder 16

Correspondence 1938

Folder 17-19

Folder 17

Folder 18

Folder 19

Correspondence 1939

Folder 20-22

Folder 20

Folder 21

Folder 22

Correspondence 1940

Folder 23-25

Folder 23

Folder 24

Folder 25

Correspondence 1941

Folder 26

Correspondence 1942

Folder 27

Correspondence 1943

Folder 28-29

Folder 28

Folder 29

Correspondence 1944

Folder 30

Correspondence 1945-1946

Folder 31

Correspondence 1947

Folder 32

Correspondence 1948

Folder 33

Correspondence 1949

Folder 34

Correspondence 1950

Folder 35

Correspondence 1951

Folder 36

Correspondence 1952

Folder 37

Correspondence 1953

Folder 38-39

Folder 38

Folder 39

Correspondence 1954

Folder 40-44

Folder 40

Folder 41

Folder 42

Folder 43

Folder 44

Correspondence 1955

Folder 45-49

Folder 45

Folder 46

Folder 47

Folder 48

Folder 49

Correspondence 1956

Folder 50-63

Folder 50

Folder 51

Folder 52

Folder 53

Folder 54

Folder 55

Folder 56

Folder 57

Folder 58

Folder 59

Folder 60

Folder 61

Folder 62

Folder 63

Correspondence 1957

Folder 64-72

Folder 64

Folder 65

Folder 66

Folder 67

Folder 68

Folder 69

Folder 70

Folder 71

Folder 72

Correspondence 1958

Folder 73-79

Folder 73

Folder 74

Folder 75

Folder 76

Folder 77

Folder 78

Folder 79

Correspondence 1959

Folder 80-88

Folder 80

Folder 81

Folder 82

Folder 83

Folder 84

Folder 85

Folder 86

Folder 87

Folder 88

Correspondence 1960

Folder 89-95

Folder 89

Folder 90

Folder 91

Folder 92

Folder 93

Folder 94

Folder 95

Correspondence 1961

Folder 96-103

Folder 96

Folder 97

Folder 98

Folder 99

Folder 100

Folder 101

Folder 102

Folder 103

Correspondence 1962

Folder 104-115

Folder 104

Folder 105

Folder 106

Folder 107

Folder 108

Folder 109

Folder 110

Folder 111

Folder 112

Folder 113

Folder 114

Folder 115

Correspondence 1963

Folder 116

Correspondence 1964

Folder 117

Correspondence 1965

Folder 118

Correspondence 1966

Folder 119

Correspondence 1967-1969

Folder 120

Correspondence 1970

Folder 121

Correspondence 1971

Folder 122

Correspondence 1972

Folder 123

Correspondence Undated

Folder 124-127

Folder 124

Folder 125

Folder 126

Folder 127

Correspondence Speeches and Programs on Folk Music

Folder 128

Correspondence Other Speeches and Programs

Folder 129-131

Folder 129

Folder 130

Folder 131

Correspondence Course Materials

Folder 132-134

Folder 132

Folder 133

Folder 134

Correspondence Printed Programs of Music Written and/or Performed by Buchanan

Folder 135

Correspondence Reviews of Folk Hymns of America

Folder 136

Correspondence Royalty Statements

Folder 137

Correspondence Lists of Library of Congress Recordings

Folder 138

Correspondence Song Booklets from Folkways

Folder 139

Correspondence Writings of John P. Buchanan

Folder 140

Correspondence Poems to be Set to Music

Folder 141-143

Folder 141

Folder 142

Folder 143

Correspondence Articles about Buchanan

Folder 144-147

Folder 144

Folder 145

Folder 146

Folder 147

Correspondence Articles about White Top Festival

Folder 148

Correspondence Articles by and about John Powell

Folder 149

Correspondence Miscellaneous Articles

Folder 150-159

Folder 150

Folder 151

Folder 152

Folder 153

Folder 154

Folder 155

Folder 156

Folder 157

Folder 158

Folder 159

Correspondence Photographs--removed to series

Folder 160-162

Folder 160

Folder 161

Folder 162

Correspondence Clippings about Buchanan

Folder 163-164

Folder 163

Folder 164

Correspondence Clippings about White Top Folk Festival

Folder 165

Correspondence Clippings about Virginia State Choral Festival

Folder 166-173

Folder 166

Folder 167

Folder 168

Folder 169

Folder 170

Folder 171

Folder 172

Folder 173

Correspondence Miscellaneous Clippings

Folder 174-176

Folder 174

Folder 175

Folder 176

Miscellaneous Materials

Folder 177

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About 3,500 items.

Original, mostly unpublished, folklore material, primarily folk songs, with some copies of dance figures, tales, play-party games, singing games, jump-rope and counting rhymes, children's games and nursery rhymes, beliefs, herbal lore, charms and cures, customs, proverbs, and folk speech. This material was primarily gathered from white informants; the few songs collected from African-Americans are filed separately. There is also correspondence from folklorists.

Most of the material in this series was collected by Buchanan beginning in 1930 and continuing until approximately 1954. There are also a number of items solicited by her from other collectors. These range in date from 1913 to 1963. A very small number were taken from printed sources with the permission of collector and publisher to be used in her book manuscripts.

Buchanan did most of her collecting in Virginia, her home state for 30 years. She also collected a large amount of material in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Maine. A large number of items are from Buchanan's family tradition in Texas. Items that she collected from people at the Huckleberry Mountain Artists' Colony in North Carolina and the New England Music Camp in Maine, with items she solicited from other collectors, extended her collection to encompass 48 states by 1957.

Most of the songs have typed word sheets and hand copied tune sheets. Tales and other materials are not typed but appear in a hand-written collecting notebook located at the end of the series kept by Buchanan on field trips in 1935, 1936, and 1950. Items include the following information if available:

informant's name (often includes maiden name);

informant's home town, county and state;

collector's name;

date of recording;

local title used by informant;

Child title and number, Laws title and number, or other standard title;

where informant learned the song and from whom;

family background of the informant;

type of melodic scale of tune (e.g., pentatonic);

and mode of melody, if not standard (e.g. Mixolydian).

Many of the items have a small hand-written note "Sent to LC." This indicates that Buchanan made a copy of the tune and text of the song and sent it to the Folk Music Archive of the National Federation of Music Clubs, which was housed in the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress. Some items have penciled-in notes refering to the location of the same or a similar version in a printed collection.

The arrangement of this series was established by Buchanan; this includes the numbering system and title of the sections. The classification divides the material into five basic categories:

IAArranged by Child number;

IB-VIII Arranged by type of song;

IXArranged by collector;

X-XXArranged by place where collected;

XXI-XXVMiscellaneous materials.

A song may appear in more than one of these categories. For example, a song might be filed in section I because it is a Child ballad; in section IX because it was collected by someone other than Buchanan; and in section X because it was collected in Virginia. The original copy, taken down by hand in the field, is usually filed in sections X to XX (which are subdivided by individual or family); typed copies appear in other folders as appropriate. The tune may appear in only one folder. Note that XI-D is a "ballet" notebook given to Buchanan by one of her informants. Multiple versions of a particular song are filed by date of collection.

Sections XXI through XXV consist of collecting correspondence, dance figures, African-American songs, Buchanan's family songs, and notes and clippings for the book manuscript of Mountain Magic. The correspondence between Buchanan and collectors and informants is placed here because the letters contain or accompany the texts and tunes of songs sent by these people to help her with her collection and her book manuscripts. The informants, NFMC officials, and folklorists whose entire correspondence with Buchanan is filed here, include Phillips Barry, Anne G. Gilchrist, George Pullen Jackson, Charles Iler, Ross Whitemire, and Bob "Fiddler" Beers.

At the end of the series is filed a catalog of the songs in the collection. This catalog was made by Buchanan and covers the years 1930 through 1954. Note that, while the catalog is helpful, it is not complete.

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About 400 items.
Folder 178

I-A-1Child #1-6

Folder 179

I-A-2Child #7-11

Folder 180

I-A-3Child #12

Folder 181

I-A-4Child #13-25

Folder 182

I-A-5Child #26-52

Folder 183

I-A-6Child #53-61

Folder 184

I-A-7Child #62-72

Folder 185

I-A-8Child #73

Folder 186

I-A-9Child #74-77

Folder 187

I-A-10Child #78-80

Folder 188

I-A-11Child #81-83

Folder 189

I-A-12Child #84

Folder 190

I-A-13Child #85-111

Folder 191

I-A-14Child #112-161

Folder 192

I-A-15Child #162-249

Folder 193

I-A-16Child #250-277

Folder 194

I-A-17Child #278-299

Folder 195

I-A-18Oldest Traditional Ballads after Child

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About 1,200 items.
Folder 196

I-B-1Later Imported Ballads, A-B

Folder 197

I-B-2Later Imported Ballads, C-G

Folder 198

I-B-3Later Imported Ballads, H-L

Folder 199

I-B-4Later Imported Ballads, M-P

Folder 200

I-B-5Later Imported Ballads, R-Z

Folder 201

I-B-6Native American Ballads, A-K

Folder 202

I-B-7Native American Ballads, L-Z

Folder 203

II-A-1Traditional Lyric Songs, A

Folder 204

II-A-2Traditional Lyric Songs, B-C

Folder 205

II-A-3Traditional Lyric Songs, D-L

Folder 206

II-A-4Traditional Lyric Songs, M-P

Folder 207

II-A-5Traditional Lyric Songs, R-T

Folder 208

II-A-6Traditional Lyric Songs, U-Z

Folder 209

II-B-1Native Songs, A-F

Folder 210

II-B-2Native Songs, G-L

Folder 211

II-B-3Native Songs, M-Z

Folder 212

II-C-1Humorous Songs, A-E

Folder 213

II-C-2Humorous Songs, F-J

Folder 214

II-C-3Humorous Songs, K-O

Folder 215

II-C-4Humorous Songs, P-Z

Folder 216

II-DWar Songs and Ballads

Folder 217

II-ESea Songs and Shanties

Folder 218

II-F-1Nursery Songs, A-E

Folder 219

II-F-2Nursery Songs, F-G

Folder 220

II-F-3Nursery Songs, H-R

Folder 221

II-F-4Nursery Songs, S-Z

Folder 222

II-GHunting and Drinking Songs

Folder 223

II-HDance Songs

Folder 224

II-I-1Dialogue Songs, A-J

Folder 225

II-I-2Dialogue Songs, K-Z

Folder 226

II-J-1Cowboy and Western Ballads, A-G

Folder 227

II-J-2Cowboy and Western Ballads, H-Z

Folder 228

II-KOld Published Songs in Oral Tradition

Folder 229

II-LMoralities and Confessions

Folder 230

II-MParodies and Satires

Folder 231

II-NRounds and Catches

Folder 232

II-OMormon Folksongs

Folder 233

II-PLumbermen's Songs

Folder 234

II-QMining Songs

Folder 235

II-RRiver Songs

Folder 236

III-AAccumulative Songs and Carols (Secular)

Folder 237

III-BCarols (Sacred)

Folder 238

IV-A-1Folk Hymns (Nearest Orthodox Type), A-L

Folder 239

IV-A-2Folk Hymns (Nearest Orthodox Type), M-Z

Folder 240

IV-A-3Folk Hymns in Folk Hymns of America

Folder 241

IV-BBallad Hymns

Folder 242

IV-CCamp-Meeting Hymns

Folder 243

IV-DWhite Spirituals

Folder 244

V-A-1Singing Games, A-I

Folder 245

V-A-2Singing Games, K-O

Folder 246

V-A-3Singing Games, P-Z

Folder 247

V-BPlay-Party Games

Folder 248

V-CCountry Dance Figures

Folder 249

V-DCountry Dance Tunes

Folder 250

VI-ANursery Rhymes

Folder 251

VI-BGames Without Music

Folder 252

VI-CRope-Jumping and Counting Rhymes

Folder 253

VII-AAfrican-American Songs and Spirituals

Folder 254

VII-BAfrican-American Spirituals and Shouts

Folder 255

VIII-ASuperstition and Witchcraft

Folder 256

VIII-BCharms and Cures

Folder 257

VIII-CProverbs, Folk Sayings, Traditions

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse X through XX. Materials Arranged by State, 1913-1963.

About 1,000 items.

Materials arranged by the state where collected. Original copies of songs, taken down by hand in the field, are usually filed in these sections, which are subdivided by individual or family. Subseries XI is from Marion, Va.

Folder 267

X-ACopied from Old Manuscripts

Folder 268

X-B"Adventures in Virginia Folkways"

Folder 269

X-CMiscellaneous Notes

Folder 270

XI-AWohlford-Blevins-Reedy Dance Tunes (Marion, Va.)

Folder 271

XI-BLillie William Family Dance Tunes (Marion, Va.)

Folder 272

XI-CElziebell Ferguson Family 1931-1933 (Marion, Va.)

Folder 273

XI-DBertha Dunsford 1931 (Marion, Va.)

Folder 274

XI-ERouse-Chester-Harris-Wolfe 1931-1934 (Marion, Va.)

Folder 275

XI-FMrs. Lester Bishop Family 1931-1932 (Marion, Va.)

Folder 276

XI-GRussell Family 1931-1933 (Marion, Va.)

Folder 277

XI-HMrs. Hattie Sims 1931-1933 (Marion, Va.)

Folder 278

XI-IColey Family 1932 (Marion, Va.)

Folder 279

XI-J1931 Smyth County, Va.

Folder 280

XI-K1932-1935 Smyth County, Va.

Folder 281

XI-LJohn M. "Sailor Dad" Hunt 1933-1935 (Marion, Va.)

Folder 282

XII-AWalter Gallebon 1931-1932 (Smyth County, Va.)

Folder 283

XII-BHorton Barker 1931-1933 (Smyth County, Va.)

Folder 284

XII-CBaldwin-Church-Sturgill-Trivett 1931-1936 (White Top)

Folder 285

XII-D-1Old Ballets

Folder 286

XII-D-2Old Ballets

Folder 287

XII-D-3Old Ballets

Folder 288

XIII-AWashington Russell, Nelson Counties, Va.

Folder 289

XIII-BDr. W. P. Davis Collection, Grayson County, Va.

Folder 290

XIII-CGrayson County, Va.

Folder 291

XIII-DW. E. Alderman Collection--Grayson & Patrick Counties, Va.

Folder 292

XIII-EBland and Wythe Counties, Va.

Folder 293

XIII-FBuchanan and Lee Counties, Va.

Folder 294

XIII-GGiles and Pulaski Counties, Va.

Folder 295

XIV-APatrick and Henry Counties, Va.

Folder 296

XIV-BFranklin, Campbell and Pittsylvania Counties, Va.

Folder 297

XIV-CAmelia County, Va. (Mrs. Hardaway)

Folder 298

XIV-DJennie Davis Collection (Rockingham County, Va.)

Folder 299

XV-AUniversity of Richmond students

Folder 300

XV-BRichmond and Eastern Virginia

Folder 301

XV-CGeorge Tucker Collection (Norfolk and Eastern Va.)

Folder 302

XVI-ARev. Levi Sims (Virginia and West Virginia)

Folder 303

XVI-B-1Cruise Family Collection 1931

Folder 304

XVI-B-2Cruise Family Collection 1932-1935

Folder 305

XVI-CBlevins-Love-Shepherd (Johnson County, Tenn.)

Folder 306

XVI-DLaPrade-Beaty (New York and Western Tenn.)

Folder 307

XVI-E-1Cumberlands 1935-1936 (Eastern Tenn.)

Folder 308

XVI-E-2Cumberlands 1935-1936 (Eastern Tenn.)

Folder 309

XVII-A-1Cumberlands 1935 (Eastern Ky.)

Folder 310

XVII-A-2Cumberlands 1935-1936 (Eastern Ky.)

Folder 311

XVII-A-3Cumberlands 1950 (Eastern Ky.)

Folder 312

XVII-B-1Cumberlands Superstitions and Kentuckiana 1935-1936

Folder 313

XVII-B-2Cumberlands Superstitions and Kentuckiana 1935-1936

Folder 314

XVII-CJean Thomas Collection

Folder 315

XVIII-A-1North Carolina (General)

Folder 316

XVIII-A-2Boone, Beech Creek, Watauga County, North Carolina

Folder 317

XVIII-BHuckleberry Mountain, North Carolina

Folder 318

XIX-ANew England Music Camp Maine 1938-1939

Folder 319

XIX-BMcCann-Grover Maine

Folder 320

XX-ACrounse-Webster (Minn.), Buckley-Beers (Mont.)

Folder 321

XX-BOther States (Arizona-Arkansas)

Folder 322

XX-COther States (Delaware-Washington)

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 3. Writings, 1919-1961.

About 2,500 items.

Writings by Buchanan arranged into four subseries: non-fiction book manuscripts; articles on folklore; articles on gardening; and short stories and miscellaneous writings. There is no manuscript for Buchanan's only published book, Folk Hymns of America. Magazine articles on the White Top Folk Festival are filed in Series 1, and a book manuscript, "Southwest Virginia Folk Songs" with settings of tunes Buchanan collected, is in Series 4.

There follows a narrative description of the book-length manuscripts; an annotated list of the folklore articles, arranged alphabetically by title; a list of articles on gardening, arranged alphabetically by title; a list of short stories and miscellaneous writings, arranged by genre; and a folder list. An article or short story may appear under more than one title, and there are printed copies of many of the articles.

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About 400 items.

Three unpublished manuscripts by Buchanan: "White Top Folk Trails," a compendium of folk songs and dance figures with an emphasis on scholarly analysis and bibliography; "The Bough Was Given to Me," an analysis of the relationship between folklore and mythology, religion, and metaphysics in the folklore of the mountain people of Virginia; and "Mountain Magic," a memoir of Buchanan's collecting experiences and the individuals from whom she received her information.

Buchanan worked on "White Top Folk Trails" from 1934 through the 1960s. The one-volume first draft, which she wrote between 1934 and 1937, was submitted to Oxford University Press, which declined to publish it due to the onset on the Second World War. Then, because of her husband's death, Buchanan put it aside until the mid-1940s. The manuscript grew to four volumes during the 1940s-1960s. Correspondence in Series 1 between 1936 and 1961 documents the development of this work.

The opening chapter covers the history and development of folk music and its scholarship. In later chapters, she devoted much space to folk hymns and dances. Texts and tunes of songs are included, along with notes and references to other places where the songs had been published. The original order of the manuscript from Buchanan's files has been maintained, with settings for the songs filed in Series 4 and many of the collecting notes on which the volume filed in Series 2.

"The Bough was Given to Me" consists of non-musical material gathered by Buchanan while researching "White Top Folk Trails," combined with music, dances, hymnody, superstitions, and traditional customs that Buchanan collected later. In this manuscript, based in part on her 1936 series "Adventures in Virginia Folkways" for the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Buchanan concentrated primarily on the traditions, customs, and beliefs of the mountain people and on her own ideas of the metaphysical and mystical origins of folklore.

"Mountain Magic" is primarily a montage of Buchanan's collecting experiences. EAch of the twelve chapters is a vignette of her dealings with the mountain people, including their songs, charms, and sayings. Photographs relating to this manuscript are filed in Series 6.

Folder 348

"White Top Folk Trails"--Outline, Table of Contents, Prologue

Folder 349

"White Top Folk Trails"--1936 draft, revised 1937

Folder 350a

"White Top Folk Trails"--Chapters I-III

Folder 350b

"White Top Folk Trails"--Chapters I-III, old and new drafts

Folder 350c

"White Top Folk Festival"--Chapters I-III, publisher's copy

Folder 351a-351b

"White Top Folk Trails"--Notes on songs and ballads

Folder 352a-352b

"White Top Folk Trails"--Notes on songs and ballads Vol. 1

Folder 353a-353b

"White Top Folk Trails"--Notes on songs and ballads Vol. 2

Folder 354a

"White Top Folk Trails"--Notes on folk hymns and carols

Folder 354b

"White Top Folk Trails"--Preliminary notes on folk hymns

Folder 355a

"White Top Folk Trails"--American Country Dances (publisher's copy)

Folder 355b

"White Top Folk Trails"--Play-Party and Singing Games (publisher's copy)

Folder 355c-355d

"White Top Folk Trails"--Dances and Games

Folder 355e

"White Top Folk Trails"--Dances, Games, and unfinished notes

Folder 356

"White Top Folk Trails"--Vol. 1, Texts and tunes of traditional ballads and songs

Folder 357

"White Top Folk Trails"--Vol. 2, Texts and tunes of traditional songs, native ballads, and rounds

Folder 358a

"White Top Folk Trails"--Bibliography (original typed copy)

Folder 358b-358c

"White Top Folk Trails"--carbons

Folder 358d

"White Top Folk Trails"--Discography

Folder 359

"White Top Folk Trails"--Miscellaneous notes

Folder 360

"White Top Folk Trails"--Settings (Now located in folder 431)

Folder 361a

"Bough was Given to Me"--Index, outline notes

Folder 361b

"Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters I-V, VIII (publisher's copy); Chapters I-V, carbon

Folder 361c

"Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters I-V, carbon

Folder 361d

"Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters V-XIV

Folder 361e

"Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters XV-XXI

Folder 361f

"Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters XXII

Folder 361g

"Bough was Given to Me"--Chapters XXIII-XXVII

Folder 362a

"Bough was Given to Me"--Notes on hymnody

Folder 362b

"Bough was Given to Me"--Notes on witchcraft

Folder 363a

"Mountain Magic"--main text (publisher's copy)

Folder 363b

"Mountain Magic"--Texts and tunes (publisher's copy)

Folder 364a

"Mountain Magic"--carbon copies and notes

Folder 364b-364c

"Mountain Magic"--first draft

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 3.2. Folklore Articles, 1933-1961.

16 items.

Arrangement: alphabetical.

Manuscript or printed copies of articles written on folklore by Buchanan. Note that most articles about the White Top Folk Festival are filed in Series 1.

"Adventures in Virginia Folkways" is a series of eight articles published in the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, 1936, about Buchanan's experiences collecting folklore in southwestern Virginia. These articles include ballads, songs, dances, play-party games, beliefs, and superstitions. Printed copies are filed in Series 5 and in Series 2, folder X-B.

"American Folk Hymnody" is an article from the International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Co., 1939), pp. 596-601, which covers the origin, history, and types of folk hymns.

"Ancient Pagan Rites in Virginia" is an unpublished article from the 1930s or 1940s about the demonstration of Morris and sword dances presented at the White Top Folk Festival and their origins in England.

"Anglo-American Folk Music" is an article from the International Cyclopedia of Music and Musicians that covers the types of music found in America, including dances and play-party games, and Buchanan's theory of the modal structure of folk music.

"Archive of American Folk Music" is a typescript of an article published in Showcase, the magazine of the National Federation of Music Clubs, January-February 1961. The published titles was "Archives ... Keepers of the Past."

"The Cherry Tree Carol" is an article from Presbyterian of the South, v. 113, 21 Dececember 1938, p. 11, which connected early carols with mystery plays.

"Creation and Fall of Man: A Kentucky Ballad Carol" is an article from the Kentucky Folklore Record, v. 1, no. 4, October-December 1955, pp. 91-99, which points out parallels and precursors of this religious ballad.

Buchanan wrote of review of Sharp's English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians which was printed in Music Clubs Magazine, undated. Printed copy only.

"A Folk Festival Above the Clouds" is an article on the White Top Folk Festival and appeared in Holland's magazine, August 1933, p. 18, 26.

"The Function of a Folk Festival" is an article from Southern Folklore Quarterly, March 1937, v. 1, no. 1, pp. 29-34, which explains Buchanan's belief that a folk festival should preserve the true character of folk music, not commercialize or exploit it. Two reprint copies only.

"How the Ballad Grows" is a nine page typescript that may be a chapter from one of her book manuscripts or an unpublished article.

"Modal and Melodic Structure in Anglo-American Folk Music: A Neutral Mode" is an address given to the International Congress of Musicology in New York on 13 September 1939 and published in Papers Read at the International Congress of Musicology at New York, ed. by Arthur Mendel and Gustave Reese, (Richmond, Va.: William Byrd Press, 1944), pp. 84-111.

"A Neutral Mode in Anglo-American Folk Music" is an abstract of the above address, which was published in Southern Folklore Quarterly, v. 4, no. 2, June 1940, pp. 77-92. Two reprint copies.

Buchanan reviewed the book Old Songs and Singing Games by Richard Chase. This is a typescript copy.

"On the Trail of Folk Song in the Virginia Mountains" is an unpublished article about Buchanan's adventures in collecting folk songs. It was probably written in the 1930s.

"Witchments, Charms Lures White Top's Faith" is an article from the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, 2 December 1934, pp. 6-7, 10, on beliefs superstitions, legends, and tales of the White Top area. Printed copies only.

Folder 365

Articles on Folklore A-B

Folder 366

Articles on Folklore C-E

Folder 367

Articles on Folklore F-L

Folder 368

Articles on Folklore M

Folder 369

Articles on Folklore N-S

Folder 370

Articles on Folklore T-Z

Folder 371

American Folk Music Bibliography

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 3.4. Articles, Fiction, and Short Stories, 1919-1960s.

About 100 items.

Articles, fiction (short novels), short stories, and poems. Also included are bulletins from the National Federation of Music Clubs (NFMC) to which Buchanan submitted articles; booklets written by Buchanan for the NFMC; and three notebooks, 1919-1937, with lists of works written by Buchanan and their publishing history. The first notebook covers the years 1919 to 1936; titles are listed alphabetically. The second covers the same years, but the listings are by publisher. The third notebook covers from 1937 on by title only.

Folder 378

Miscellaneous Articles: "American Artists and Composers of the Federation,"

Miscellaneous Articles: "American Drama of the Present"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Bud's Baby Band"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Golden Hour in the Home"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Hale and Hearty at One Hundred and Five"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Human Fleas"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Hunger that Needs More than Bread"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Is Virginia Giving her People Good Music"

Folder 379

Miscellaneous Articles: "Kodaking for Profit"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Modern Music"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Music in the Home"

Miscellaneous Articles: "'Prove Me Now': B.C. 1000 or A.D. 2000?"

Folder 380

Miscellaneous Articles: "Recollections of Groesbeck"

Folder 381

Miscellaneous Articles: "Sherwood Anderson and the Virginia Federation of Music Clubs"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Sherwood Anderson Naturalized"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Ten Minutes with Death"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Unto Us a Child is Born"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Virginia Choral Festival"

Miscellaneous Articles: "Virginia Federation of Music Clubs"

Folder 382

Miscellaneous Articles: "Articles for the Richmond Community Fund"

Folder 383

Miscellaneous Articles: Booklets for the National Federation of Music Clubs: American Composers and Home Music

Folder 384

Miscellaneous Articles: Issues of the Virginia Musician

Folder 385-386

Folder 385

Folder 386

Fiction: "Adventures in Skyland" (juvenile novel)

Folder 387

Fiction: "Jack and Jill in Skyland" (juvenile novel)

Folder 388

Fiction: "Molly of Green Gardens" (adult novel)

Folder 389

Fiction: "Snow-on-the-Mountain" (play based on a short story of the same name)

Folder 390

Short Stories "Baby Kitty Goes for the Mail"

Short Stories "Baby Kitty Minds his Manners"

Short Stories "Baby Kitty Runs Away"

Folder 391

Short Stories "Come into the Garden"

Short Stories "The Dark Presence"

Short Stories "A Daughter of the Beverlys"

Folder 392

Short Stories "The Enchanted Garden"

Short Stories "The Enchanted Hour"

Short Stories "The Experiences of a Methodist Minister's Daughter"

Folder 393

Short Stories "The Family"

Short Stories "Fiddle or Dram"

Short Stories "For President"

Short Stories "For them that See"

Short Stories "Fox-Fire"

Short Stories "Gentleman's Decision"

Short Stories "The Girl from the South"

Short Stories "Goat Feathers"

Folder 394

Short Stories "Hills of God"

Short Stories "Homeward"

Short Stories "Humpty-Dumpty"

Short Stories "Hungry Mother"

Short Stories "I Know whom I have Believed"

Short Stories "Johnny's Birthday Book"

Folder 395

Short Stories "A Little Child shall Lead Them"

Short Stories "Lucifer Matches"

Folder 396

Short Stories "Moses asks for a Sign"

Short Stories "Mother Reduces"

Short Stories "Mountain Laurel"

Folder 397

Short Stories "Neil McNeil"

Short Stories "Old Time Religion"

Short Stories "The Pawn Shop"

Short Stories "Possum in the Road"

Short Stories "The Regeneration of Ewilder"

Short Stories "Rise King Jesus"

Folder 398

Short Stories "The Secret Garden"

Short Stories "Snow-on-the-Mountain"

Short Stories "Sprig of Mint"

Folder 399

Short Stories "Talk About Musical Temperament"

Short Stories "That's For Remembrance"

Short Stories "Train up a Child"

Folder 400

Short Stories "Until Seventy times Seven"

Short Stories "The Vase of Amethyst"

Short Stories "Wanted: A Funnybone"

Short Stories "The Week Before Christmas"

Short Stories "When Mother fell Away"

Short Stories "The White Flagon: Or, the Wickedness of Wealth"

Folder 401

Short Stories Untitled Articles

Folder 402

Short Stories Poems

Folder 403

Short Stories Manuscript Notebooks

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 4. Manuscript Music, 1902-1953.

About 3,000 items.

Sketches, notes, draft, and final copies of both folk and original songs, secular and sacred, by Buchanan or collected during her research. The arranging worksheets for her folk and tune book hymn settings contain extensive notes on both written and oral sources of the material based on her field research and her large collection of early American sacred tune books.

Buchanan arranged these music manuscripts in generic groups. She packaged major works, such as "Southwest Virginia Folksong," "The Legend of Hungry Mother," and her oratorio "Rex Christus," in bundles separate from other materials. Hand-written labels, such as "some of my early songs and earliest piano compositions, Texas and Oklahoma, 1902-1907" on other packages indicate other pre-defined classifications.

Buchanan's musical interest often overlapped in time, with many long-term interests cropping up again and again, and she often reworked earlier compositions and arrangements to suit current publishing demands. Nevertheless, there is enough temporal "clustering" of works in any of the muscial areas of major concern to Buchanan to make the chronological division a useful one, instructive of the many stages in the development of her career.

The first group of early piano compositions and other instrumental pieces includes composition dated 1902-1907, the period when Buchanan was studying at the Landon Conservatory in Dallas, Tex. Many of these compositions have only sketchy titles. Also included are later instrumental pieces, such as fragments of folk-derived dances and pieces arranged by Buchanan for piano and string orchestra. Original songs date from 1915 to 1953, but most were written in the 1920s and 1930s and composed for lyrics written by others. Secular folk song settings were arranged, for the most part, from 1931 to 1941. Most include information on when, where, and from whom the song was collected and are based on the early modal system of harmony.

"Southwest Virginia Folksong," an unpublished book manuscript dated 1931, includes ballads, dances, and singing games. Their order is listed in the book's table of contents. "The Legend of the Hungry Mother," a choral ballad for three voices, piano, and string quartet written in 1932, utilizes folk-derived material. Buchanan's oratorio, "Rex Christus," is dated 1944 although she began work in late 1943. Included in the papers are a publisher's copy, a penciled version, and worksheets and fragments. Material for her choral suite "The Moon Goes Down," written in 1961 and 1962, includes multiple versions, arranged from most to least complete; worksheets; notes; and various arrangements for "When De Moon Go Down," the African-American spiritual which inspired the choral suite.

The arranging worksheets and notes for folk and tunebook hymns reflect a concentrated effort, and their order could not be disturbed without doing damage. Included are four voice arrangements and extensive notes on the origins of hymns. Collecting dates are 1931 to 1935, arranging dates from 1933 to 1937. Folk and tunebook hymn settings range from 1933 to 1955, though most were arranged in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Included for many are source and modal information. Original hymns dated from 1919 to 1971, though most are from the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. Some texts are scriptural while many were written by other authors.

Finally there is a miscellaneous category that includes workbooks bringing together works from several other categories; piano exercises and other information from Buchanan's early musical years; compositions by other composers; and songs written by Grady Davis and collaborators.

Folder 404

Early Piano Compositions and Instrumental Pieces:

"Berceuse"

"Dreaming"

"From the Cotton Fields" (African-American dances)

"Invention in Dorian Mode" (1939)

"Johnny Cope" (outline, dorian and lydian)

"Katherine"

"Lovey Mary Waltz"

"Norwegian Indian Slumber Song"

"Pensieroso"

"Salt River" (two country dances from Southwest Virginia, mixolydian)

"Salut d"amour" (composed by Edwin Elgar, arranged for piano and string orchestra by Buchanan)

"Serenade"

"Sweet Memories"

"This is a Rag-Time Piece"

"Two-part Invention in Aeolian Mode"

Untitled piano piece in A

Untitled piano piece in D

Untitled piano piece in G

"Weaving Memories" (composed by Stella Mae Dickinson)

Miscellaneous Fragments

Folder 405

Original Secular Songs A-C:

"After" verse: Margaret Widdenauer

"Almond Blossoms" verse: Alphonse de Lamartine ("Sweethearts Always")

"Another Hour with Thee" verse: Jesse B. Rittenhause

"April" verse: Grace Noel Crowell

"April Song" verse: Sara Teasdale

"As a Sea-Gull"

"As through the Land" verse: Lord Tennyson ( The Princess) (copyright 1921)

"At Dusking-Time"

"At Even" verse: Thomas S. Jones, Jr. (1929)

"The Bell" verse: Clifton Scollard

"Bittersweet" (fragment)

"Brown Leaves" verse: Florence Dickinson Stearns (1932)

"Butterfly's Wing (My Garden)" verse: Gertrude Martin Rohrer

"Click o' the Latch" verse : Nancy Byrd Turner

"The Colored Band" verse: Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Folder 406

Original Secular Songs D-F

"The Dandelion" verse: Aldine First Reader?

"The Dark Cavalier" verse: Margaret Widdemer (aeolian, dorian)

"Day" verse: Fannie Stearns Davis

"Day Moon (Waltz Song)" verse: Cole Young Rice (revised 1943)

"Dedication (To One Overseas)" verse: Grace Meredith (1945)

"Elegy in Aeolian Mode" including verse "Elegy in Bronze" by S. Stephenson Smith

"Enough for Me" verse: Amelia Josephine Burr

"The First Bluebird" verse: James Whitcomb Riley

"A Flower from Eden" verse: Lucy Larcom

"For His Sake" verse: Lewis Morris

Folder 407

Original Secular Songs G-I

"Good-bye" verse: Mary Clemmer

"Heart's Ease" verse: Mildred Howells

"Her Garden" verse: Sallie Sheppard Perkins (1934, aeolian)

"Here are Roses" verse: Edgar C. Burnz

"Hills" verse: Arthur Guiterman

"How do I Love Thee? (I Love Thee)" verse: Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"I Heard a Wood-Thrush" verse: Sara Teasdale

"I Love You" verse: Adelaide Anne Proctor

"If All the Skies were Sunshine" verse: Henry Van Dyke ( Blue Monday Book)

"The Immortal" verse: Cole Young Rice

"In a Garden of Dreams" verse: Elizabeth Eggleston

"In Flanders Fields" (including notes)

Folder 408

Original Secular Songs J-L

"Joyous-gard" verse: Thomas S. Jones, Jr.

"Just Think (Star-Gleam)" verse: Robert W. Service

"The Kiss of Desire" verse: John Boyle O'Reilly ( All That's Lovely)

"The Lamp" verse: Sara Teasdale (copyright 1921)

"Life" verse: Grace Noel Crowell (1928)

"Lift of a Wing" verse: Florence D. Stearns (dorian, sketch)

"The Light of Love" verse: James Whitcomb Riley ( Songs o'Cheer)

"Little Black Sheep" verse: Edith M. Thomas (circa 1916)

"Little Boy Blue" verse: Eugene Field

"A Little House" verse: Nancy Byrd Turner (copyright 1926)

"The Little Tavern" verse: Edna St. Vincent Millay

"The Little Waves of Breffney" verse: Eva Marie Booth (fragment)

"Longing" verse: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) (1938, aeolian)

"Love Comes Tonight" verse: Sara Teasdale

"Love-Time" verse: John Richard Moreland

Folder 409

Original Secular Songs M-O

"A May Madrigal" verse: Frank Dempster Sherman

"A Memory" verse: Theodosia Garrison ( All That's Lovely)

"The Message" verse: Cole Rice Young

"Misty Moonlight" verse: Grace Noel Crowell

"Moods" verse: Sara Teasdale (copyright 1921)

"My Love a Lily Gave"

"Nocture" verse: Fannie Stearns Davis

"Not now, but in coming years.."

"Now I can Live" verse: Sara Teasdale (copyright 1921)

"An Old Garden" verse: Nancy Little (1929)

"An Old Song" verse: Thomas S. Jones, Jr. (see also "A Place of Dreams," folder 410)

"Old Virginia"

"An Old Woman of the Roads" verse: Padraic Colum (1931, aeolian)

"The Open Door" verse: Grace Coolidge (1929)

"Our Own" verse: Margaret E. Songster ( All That's Lovely)

Folder 410

Original Secular Songs P-R

"Pierrot's Song" (phrygian, fragment)

"Pine Trees and the Sky" verse: Rupert Brooke

"A Place of Dreams" verse: Thomas S. Jones, Jr. (see also "An Old Song," folder 409)

"A Prayer" verse: George Rostrevor

"Question" (mixolydian, fragment)

"The Redbird" verse: Emma Gray Trigg (1932)

"Retrospection" verse: Ray H. Grass

"The Rivers Flow" verse: Thomas Wolfe

"A Road Song" verse: Madison Cawein

"The Road to Crewe" verse: Florence Dickinson Stearns (1932)

"The Rock-a-bye Lady" verse: Eugene Field

"Roofs" verse: Joyce Kilmer

"Roses at the Door" verse: Mary Carolyn Davies (1927)

"The Runaway" verse: Cole Rice Young (Dr. Hugh A. Clark's notes and corrections, 1921)

Folder 411

Original Secular Songs S-U

"Secrets" (1915 or 1916)

"Shadow Land"

"Sierra Night Song" verse: Paul C. Morris music: Paul C. Morris and Buchanan

"The Silver Flute" verse: Harry Lee

"Sliding on the Ice" verse and music: Buchanan

"Slumber Song" word only, verse: Louis Ledoux

"Somewhere, Love is Waiting for You" (1920s)

"Song at Dusk" verse: Leigh Hanes

"A Song at Sunset" verse: Edwin Markham

"A Song for Mary" verse: Grace Noel Crowell

"Song of the Winds"

"That Little Boy o' Mine" verse and music: Buchanan (1927)

"That Old Virginia Waltz"

"There is Pansies" verse: Mildred Howells

"Three Children"

Three Songs from Alice in Wonderland verse: Lewis Carroll

"How Doth the Little Crocodile"

"The Mouse's Tale"

"The Lobster Quadrille"

Three Songs from Dixie verse: Eloise Earl Dean

"Sallie Lou"

"A Southern Lullaby"

"The Screech Owl"

"Through the Window" verse: Florence Earle Coates

"To ---" verse: Murrell Edmunds (1928)

"Two and a Child" verse: Jean Starr Untermeyer (fragment)

Untitled verse: Frank L. Stanton ( All That's Lovely)

Folder 412

Original Secular Songs V-Z

"Wayfarer (A Mother to her Daughter)" also title "Legacy (Wayfarer)" verse: Emma Gray Trigg (phrygian)

"A Weather Interview" verse: Frank L. Stanton

"Wee Fiddle Moon" verse: Edith MacDonald Grolisin (1929)

"When America Goes Dry" verse: Buchanan and John Preston Buchanan

"Wild Geese" verse: Grace Noel Crowell (1929)

"Wings" words and music: Buchanan (1941, mixolydian)

"Wood Song" verse: Sara Teasdale (copyright 1921)

"You and I"

"You came into my Life: a Memory" verse: Theodosia Garrison

Folder 413

Original Secular Songs Collected Fragments

Folder 414

Secular Folk Song Settings

"At the Foot of Yonder's Mountain" (collected in 1941, folk song)

"Come all you Fair and Tender Ladies" or "Swallow Folk" (collected in 1932)

"Green Rushes" or "Mary of the Lowland" (collected in 1933, dorian folk song)

"Greenwood Side" (collected in 1941, aeolian traditional English-American ballad)

"The Ground Hog" (fragment)

"Haul Away, My Johnny-O" (traditional seachanty collected in 1934, dorian)

"Lord Lovel" (collected in 1932, English-American folk ballad)

"The Old Devil Flew Over the Mow (The Farmer's Curst Wife)" (collected in 1932, dorian)

"Pretty Polly" (1934, aeolian English-American traditional folk ballad)

"The True Lover's Farewell" (1931)

"The Two Brothers" (collected in 1941, dorian traditional folk ballad)

"Weevily Wheat" (1931, mountain folk song)

Fragments and outlines

Folder 415

Southwest Virginia Folksong:

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "One Morning in May"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Old Joe Clark"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Lord Thomas and Fair Ellender" (2 copies)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Ground Hog" (dance song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Gypsy Girl"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Black-eyed Susy" (dance song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Pretty Saro"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Jack went A-Sailing" (The Rich Merchant)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Dying Californian"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "What'll I do with the Baby-O?" (nursery)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Returned Sailor" (The Broken Token)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Lady Gay" (The Wife of Usher's Wall)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Spare me the Life of Georgie (Geordie)"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "I'll not Marry A-Tall"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Man that Lived in the Woods"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Katie Moray"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Lonesome Road"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Old Jimmie Sutton" (dance song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "John Hardy"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Frog went A-Courtin")

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Twelve Deciples" (The Ten Commandments) (accumulative song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Lord Bateman" (Young Beichan)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Gypsy Davy"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Dying Cowboy"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "George Collings" (Lady Alice)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Jesus Born in Bethlea" (carol)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "I Wish I was Single Again"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "I Wish I was a Single Girl Again"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Barnyard Song" (humorous accumulative song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Two Brothers"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "My Old Mistis"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Pretty Polly" (The Cruel Ships's

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Goin' Down Town"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Bold Sea-Captain"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Hangman" (Maid Freed from the Gallows)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Hard Times"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "At the Foot of Yonder's Mountain"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Old Man that Made His Will" (The Old Miller)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Four Marys" (Mary Hamilton)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Sweet William"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Rollie Trudum"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The House Carpenter" (The Daemon Lover)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Mollie Bon" (The Shooting of his Dear)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Little Mohee"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Weevily Wheat" (dance song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Cold Icy Mountain"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Cripple Creek" (dance song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Sisters"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Brother Green"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Soldier, Won't you Marry Me?"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Old Woman on the Seashore"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Swapping Song" (humorous children's song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Hi-Diddle-I-Fy" (The Farmer's Curst Wife)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "James Andrew" (Lord Randal)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Mollie Ban"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Rejected Lover"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Omie Wise"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Barbara Allen" (Barb'ry Ellen)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Rich Old Lady"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Awake, Arise, You Drowsy Sleeper"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "The Shoemaker"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Edward"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Billy-Boy" (nursery song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "On Top of Old Smoky"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Nickety Nackety" (nursery song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Poor Betsy"

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Sourwood Mountain" (dance song)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Sing Song Sallie" (Frog in the Well)

Songs and Ballads (Settings): "Who Will Shoe Your Feet?" (fragment)

Dances: "Darling Cora"

Dances: "Arkansas Traveller"

Dances: "Cluck Old Hen" (dorian and mixolydian)

Dances: "Greasy String"

Dances: "Sugar Hill"

Dances: "Bonaparte's Retreat"

Dances: "Water Bound"

Singing Games: "Go In and Out the Window"

Singing Games: "The Miller"

Singing Games: "The Battle of Mexico"

Singing Games: "Chicky-ma-Craney Crow"

Singing Games: "Up the Green Meadows"

Singing Games: "Drop the Hankerchief"

Singing Games: "The Mulberry Bush"

Singing Games: "Green Grows the Willow Tree"

Folder 416

Choral Ballad The Legend of Hungry Mother

Folder 417

Folk and Tune Book Hymns, Arranging Worksheets and Notes:

"The Female Convict," "Babylon is Fallen,"

"Hicks' Farewell," and "The Babe of Bethlehem"

"Parting Hymn (Minister's Farewell)" and "Alabama"

"King of Peace,""Saw Ye My Savior (Crucifixion)," and "Expression"

"Calvary's Mountain," "Retirement,"

"Farewell," and "Sweet Prospect"

"The Sun-Bright Clime" and "Charlestown"

"Evening Shade," "King of Peace,"

"Wondrous Love," and "Saw Ye My Savior"

"Jordan's Shore" and "Wicked Polly"

"The Cherry Tree Carol" and "The Gospel Ship"

"Phoebus,""Tribulation,""Road's-Town," and "Christmas Hymn (A Carol)"

"O Thou in Whose Presence,""Promised Land,""Rise, My Soul," and "Kay"

"In Evil Long I Took Delight,""O Thou in Whose Presence,""Idumea," and "The Converted Thief"

"Social Band"

"King of Peace,""Jesus Born in Bethlea," and "Farewell"

"Parting Hymn (Minister's Farewell),"

"Saints Bound for Heaven,""Samanthra,""Tender Thought,""Farewell,""Garden Hymn,""Exultation,""New Jordan,""The Hebrew Children," and "Jesus Born in Bethlea"

"Tender Thought," "Garden Hymn,"

"Exultation," and "New Jordan"

"Saw Ye My Savior," "Evening Shade,"

"Children of the Heavenly King," and "Alabama"

"Poor Wayfaring Stranger,""Immensity,""I Will Arise,""Weeping Savior,""A Female Convict,""Sweet Prospect," and "Retirement"

"The Cherry Tree Carol," "The Promised Land," "Condescension," "Sweet Heaven," "Mercy's Tree," "Young People Who Delight in Sin (Wicked Polly)," "Jordan's Shore"

"The Gospel Ship"

"Salutation" and "Expression"

"Sweet Heaven," "Garden Hymn,"

"Exultation," and "Watts' Lyre"

"Samanthra" and "Alabama"

"Saints Bound for Heaven" and "Samanthra"

"Redeeeming Grace" and "How Tedious and Tasteless the Hours"

"Calvary's Mountain"

"Immensity" and "I Will Arise (Restoration)"

"The Rose Tree" and "Broad is the Road that Leads to Death"

"Windham" and "Zion's Hill"

"Drooping Souls" and "Portsmouth"

"Consolation," "Like Noah's Weary Dove,"

"Transport," and "The Sun-Bright Clime"

"Wings of the Morning" and "Alverson"

"Heavenly Union" and "Christian Union"

"Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "Christian Race"

"Bayrah" and "Suffering Savior"

"Land of Rest,""Rome,""Suffield," and "Evening Shade"

"Morning Trumpet" and "Pisgah"

"Farewell,""Salvation,""Saints Bound for Heaven," and "Evening Shade"

"Canaan" and "Zion's Security"

"Pensive Dove,""Light,""Jesus is my Friend," and "Bright Canaan"

"Immensity,""Tender Thought,""I Will Arise," and "Calvary's Mountain"

"Salutation," "Expression," "Columbia,"

"Babe of Bethlehem,""Idumea,""The Converted Thief,""In Evil Long I Took Delight,""O Thou in Whose Presence," and "Calvary's Mountain"

"Jesus Born in Bethlea" and "The Hebrew Children"

"Calvary's Mountain,""O Thou in Whose Presence," and "New Jordan"

"The Babe of Bethlehem,""Babylon is Fallen," and "Hick's Farewell"

Lyric Sheets: "Wondrous Love"

Lyric Sheets: "Pensive Dove"

Lyric Sheets: "O Jesus My Savior"

Lyric Sheets: "Wings in the Morning"

Lyric Sheets: "Like Noah's Weary Dove"

Lyric Sheets: "Garden Hymn"

Lyric Sheets: "Vale of Sorrow" and "Oh, Land of Rest"

Folder 418

Folk and Tune Book Hymns Settings

"The Babe of Bethlehem" (from The Southern Harmony, 1835, dorian)

"Break Thou the Bread of Life" verse: Mary A. Lathbury, 1977

"Dorset (Return, O God of Love)" (Psalm 90)

"Dunlap's Creek" (from The Southern Harmony, ionian)

"The Female Convict" (three verses, aeolian)

"Garden Hymn" (from Buchanan's parents)

"Jerusalem, My Happy Home" (lyrics only)

"Jesus Born in Bethlehem"

"Land of Rest" (1938)

"The Lord is My Shepherd" ( Dyer's Psalmist, Ky., 1852)

"Mary through a Thornwood's Gone" ( Der Zupfgeigenhause, aeolian, 1938)

"Old Chester" ( The Geneva Psalter, 1551, aeolian, 1943)

"Old 107th" (Psalm 107)

"Old 124th" ( Ainsworth Psalter, 1612)

"On Jordan's Stormy Banks"

"Rockbridge" (Psalm 92, 1943)

"Somerset" ( The Christian's Harp, 1832, dorian, 1941)

"Sweet Rivers" (Buchanan's father, 1955)

"The Ten Commandments" (mixolydian, 1931)

"Wondrous Love"

"Zion's Hill" (fragment)

Folder 419

Original Hymns (fragments)

"Advent" verse: Leroy V. Brant (1955)

"Behold, He That Keepeth Israel" (Psalm 121)

"Benediction" verse: Nora Dixon McGee (1960)

"Days of Days" verse: Leroy V. Brant (1955)

"The Eternal God is Thy Refuge" (anthem, 1943)

"I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes" Psalm 121 (fragment)

"In My Father's House" verse: John XIV (1929)

"Into the Woods My Master Went" (fragment)

"Lord, I Depend on You" words and music: Constance T. Watson, arrangement: Buchanan

"O Lord of Hosts" (Choral Passacaglia, 1939)

"Psalm Sunday" verse: Leroy V. Brant (aeolian, 1955)

"Psalm 24" (1944)

"Rejoice, My Soul" verse: Vivian Laramore Rader (1955)

"Russian Hymn" verse: Alexis Livoff

"Song for Joy (Chant de Joie)" verse: Henry Vaughn (1621-1695) (1942)

"Song of Thanksgiving" verse: Tharon Liskey

"Song of the Cherubim" verse: Andrew M. Bruce (1942)

"Veni Jesu" verse: Lucile Shanklin Hull (1955)

"The Wilderness Shall Be Glad" verse: Biblical (1946)

Folder 420

Fragments Oratorio: "Rex Christus" (publisher's copy)

Folder 421

Fragments Oratorio: "Rex Christus" (publisher's copy)

Folder 422

Fragments Oratorio: "Rex Christus" (worksheets and notes)

Folder 423

Fragments Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (orchestral version)

Folder 424

Fragments Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (orchestral score missing Part I)

Folder 425

Fragments Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (for four voices, missing Part IV)

Folder 426

Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (workbook)

Choral Suite: "Virginia Secedes from the Union" (mixolydian)

Choral Suite: "When De Moon Go Down" (spiritual, 1962)

Choral Suite: "An Era is Ended" (1961-1962)

Choral Suite: "War Declared: Richmond 1861" (from poem by Gertrude Boatwright Clayton, 1961)

Choral Suite: "Picket's Charge: Gettysburg" (1961)

Choral Suite: "Requiem for a Dead Soldier" verse: Elizabeth Palmer Tyler (1961)

Choral Suite: "Drums in Spring" verse: Gertrude Boatwright Clayton from Sunday in Virginia (1962)

Choral Suite: "Grant and Lee at Appomattox" verse: Gertrude Boatwright Clayton from Sunday in Virginia (1962)

Choral Suite: "Lincoln" (1962)

Choral Suite: "After Appomattox" (1962)

Choral Suite: "Lee and Shenedoah"

Choral Suite: "Thou Wilt Light my Candle" (Psalm 39, 1962)

Choral Suite: "Return" verse: Emma Gray Trigg (1962)

Choral Suite: "The Great Magnolia Tree" verse: Gertrude Boatwright Clayton (1962)

Choral Suite: "Lead Our America" verse: Emma Gray Trigg ("Aftermath") and Elizabeth Palmer Tyler ("E Pluribus Unum" from The Quiver Full) (1962)

Choral Suite: "Virginia Secedes" (fragment)

Folder 427

Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (notes, copies of texts, musical sketches, outlines)

Folder 428

Choral Suite: "The Moon Goes Down" (notes and discarded excerpts)

Folder 429

"When De Moon Goes Down": Carolina African-American Spiritual (1953)

Folder 430

Miscellany: Manuscript notebook

Miscellany: "America (String Quartet)"

Miscellany: "In My Father's House" (1929)

Miscellany: "A Memory" verse: Theodosia Garrison

Miscellany: "The Little Waves of Breffny" (1931)

Miscellany: "Requiem" verse: Elizabeth Palmer Tyler ( The Quiver Full, 1949)

Miscellany: Works from "The Blue Danube Waltz" by Strauss

Miscellany: "Carol," "The Secret," and "Wee Fiddle Moon"

Miscellany: "The Eternal God is thy Refuge," "Song at Dusk," "The Dawn of Easter," "My Soul is Exceedingly Sorrowful," and "Alleluia"

Miscellany: Exercises 1-8 (1932)

Miscellany: "Eyes of Flame" words and music: Grady Davis

Miscellany: "Homeward" words and music: Grady Davis

Miscellany: "Now Let Every Tongue Adore Thee" (Bach), Kinderscenen (Schumann), "Traumerei" (Schumann), and "Andate" (Kuhleau)

Miscellany: "Plea" verse: Van Dale, music: Grady Davis

Miscellany: "The Spirit of the Wild" words and music: Grady Davis

Miscellany: "Wind Song" verse: Eunice Tietjens, music: Grady Davis (1920)

Miscellany: Fragments

Miscellany: Examples of musical figures from Debussy, Scriabin, and Halst

Miscellany: List of Pieces learned by Buchanan at Landon Conservatory, first year, 1904-1905

Folder 431

White Top Folk Trails (settings) (from folder 360, series 3)

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7 items.

Arrangment: in order as received.

Processing information: FT-04020/6279-6282 were added to finding aid in February 2018.

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-04020/840

Dubs from discs: Myrtle Stout, S. F. Russell, Annabel Buchanan

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Recorded for or by Annabel Morris Buchanan

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-04020/861

Ohio River songs, spirituals, brush arbor songs sung by "Uncle Jim" Drain of Paducah, Ky, 12-13 August 1963; Old time fiddle tunes played by Clifton Ferguson, West Paducah, Ky.

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Recorded by William Henry Young

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-04020/862

Traditional songs, ballads, Old Regular Baptist "lining out" hymns, sung and discussed by William Henry Young, originally of Knott County, Ky., 1963

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-04020/6279

Ohio River songs, spirituals, brush arbor songs sung by "Uncle Jim" Drain of Paducah, Ky, 12-13 August 1963; Old time fiddle tunes played by Clifton Ferguson, West Paducah, Ky.3

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Most likely duplicate of FT-04020/861

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-04020/6280

Songs and ballads from Knott County by Mr. Henry Young, Paducah, Ky., 1963

1/4" Open Reel Audio

Most likely duplicate of FT-04020/862

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-04020/6281

unidentified tape sent to A.M. Buchanan by M.A. Starr of Hales Corners, Wis.

1/4" Open Reel Audio

SFC Audio Open Reel FT-04020/6282

unidentified tape sent to A.M. Buchanan by William E. Kock, English Department, Kansas State College

1/4" Open Reel Audio

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