Posts Tagged ‘Vachel Lindsay’
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Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Poem by Vachel Lindsay
Musical Setting by Abbie Betinis
Illustration by Arthur B. Poinier
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Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Found in Charleston, West Virginia
Sculpture by Fred Martin Torrey (1884-1967)
Poem by Vachel Lindsay
Musical Setting by Abbie Betinis
Information about the sculpture in the Historical Marker Database:
http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=23019
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A YouTube of the musical setting of “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight“ (poem by Vachel Linday), music by Abbie Betinis, here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrPvPAVMjgY
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Find “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight” (poem by Vachel Linday) in,
Read Aloud Poems for Young People (An Introductions to the Magic and Excitement of Poetry)
Edited by Glorya Hale
Poems, Music, and Illustrations by Various Artists
Poems inlude:
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (by Vachel Lindsay)
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln in Singable Picture Books
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/abraham-lincoln-in-singable-picture-books/
You can see this photographic portrait of Abraham Lincoln at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery:
http://www.npg.si.edu/exhibit/lincoln/
As President’s Day 2012 approaches, please enjoy this assemblage of singables related to our great 16th president, Abraham Lincoln.
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Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address Illustrated
Book by Jack E. Levin
Speech (Lyrics) by Abraham Lincoln
Music by Mrs. Patel’s 6th Grade Class (Woodmere Elementary School, Woodmere, New York, 1962)
Illustrated with archival period photographs by Various Artists
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The Buck Stops Here: The President’s of the United States
Text by Alice Provensen
Sing with Sing Books with Emily’s ”The Presidents Name Song”
Illustrated by Alice Provensen
ISBN978-0-670-01252-7
Sing Sing Books with Emily’s The Presidents Name Song with the melody sing-along track, here:
http://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/presidentsnamesong-melody
More information about the song, here:
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/the-presidents-name-song-a-singable-picture-book/
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Our Abe Lincoln
Traditional Tune, Sing to the tune of “The Old Gray Mare”
Words Adapted by Jim Aylesworth
Illustrated by Barbara McClintock
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The Gettysburg Address
Words by Abraham Lincoln
Music by Mrs. Patel’s 6th Grade Class (Woodmere Elementary School, Woodmere, New York, 1962)
Inscribed and Illustrated by Sam Fink
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The Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln
Speech (Lyrics) by Abraham Lincoln
Music by Mrs. Patel’s 6th Grade Class (Woodmere Elementary School, Woodmere, New York, 1962)
Illustrated by Michael McCurdy
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Gettysburg Address in Translation
Link to the Google Books rendering of this book, HERE
By Kay Melchisedech Olson
Speech (Lyrics) by Abraham Lincoln
Music by Mrs. Patel’s 6th Grade Class (Woodmere Elementary School, Woodmere, New York, 1962)
Published by Capstone Press (2008)
ISBN: 978-1429628457
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This is a print at the Library of Congress, a great image:
The Gettysburg Address
For original and highest quality downloadable images, click here:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=rbpe&fileName=rbpe13/rbpe133/1330330f/rbpe1330330f.db&recNum=0&itemLink=r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+1330330f))&linkText=0
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The Gettysburg Address
By Abraham Lincoln
Published by Penguin Books Great Ideas (2009)
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The Gettysburg Address (and Other Writings)
By Abraham Lincoln
Published by Fall River Press (2010)
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Presidents Name Song for Sing Books with Emily
Song Intro by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus
Illustrations and Layout Compiled by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus
Sing Sing Books with Emily’s The Presidents Name Song with the melody sing-along track, here:
http://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/presidentsnamesong-melody
If you are interested in a copy of this book, please email: SingBooksWithEmily.att.net, or lave a comment to this post.
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PRESIDENTS NAME SONG
Song Intro by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus
Illustrations by Painless Learning Placemats
Sing Sing Books with Emily’s The Presidents Name Song with the melody sing-along track, here:
http://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/presidentsnamesong-melody
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Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (a Singable Poem by Vachel Lindsay)
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Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Poem by Vachel Lindsay
Musical Setting by Abbie Betinis
Illustration by Arthur B. Poinier
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Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight
Found in Charleston, West Virginia
Sculpture by Fred Martin Torrey (1884-1967)
Poem by Vachel Lindsay
Musical Setting by Abbie Betinis
Information about the sculpture, “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight” in the Historical Marker Database:
http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=23019
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A YouTube of the musical setting of “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight” by Abbie Betinis, here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrPvPAVMjgY
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Find “Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight” (poem by Vachel Linday) in,
Read Aloud Poems for Young People (An Introductions to the Magic and Excitement of Poetry)
Edited by Glorya Hale
Poems, Music, and Illustrations by Various Artists
Poems inlude:
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight (by Vachel Lindsay)
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“Love Me Tender” new words in the mid 20th century written for a song of love, “Aura Lee,” from the Civil War
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The lyrics for “Love Me Tender” are set to the tune of a Civil War song, “Aura Lee”
Love Me Tender
Words Elvis Presley, Vera Matson (credited), Ken Darby (uncredited)
Music by George R. Poulton
Illustrated by Tom Browning
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Lincoln, Poetry and Auld Lang Syne
An article from the Library of Congress that explores the subject of Lincoln and Poetry:
http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/lincolnpoetry/
It is clear that Abraham Lincoln loved poetry adn I’ve read in a couple of places that his favorite poet (aside of Shakespeare) was Robert Burns.
This, of course, allows the opportunity to include Auld Lang Syne,
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Auld Lang Syne
Poem by Robert Burns
Traditional Tune
Book Assembled by Emily Leatha Everson Gleichenhaus
To view or print this book, click here:
Auld Lang Syne for SBWE
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Lincoln Portrait
Orchestral Word by Aaron Copland
Maybe not a picture book, but important to our understanding of Abraham Lincoln in Music is Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait”
A YouTube of Copland’s musical piece (which is interspersed with the words of Abraham Lincoln):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vJLJdrS_Go
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Wiki article about the work is embedded with a player to hear the music:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_Portrait
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Copland discusses his work, here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4165357
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“Lincoln Portrait” (by Aaron Copland) is included in,
Listen to Learn (Using American music to understand language arts and social studies, grades 5-8)
By Terri Tibbett
Words and Music by Various Artists
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Abraham Lincoln in Song
A CD album of songs performed by Chris Vallillo
http://www.ginridge.com/
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Music for Abraham Lincoln
A CD album of music specifically related to Abraham Lincoln
http://www.amazon.com/Music-Abraham-Lincoln-Campaign-President/dp/B005EW55EU
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Sheet music for Abraham Lincoln’s presidential campaign at the Library of Congress:
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/h?ammem/scsmbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(scsm000113))
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The White House Biography page for Abraham Lincoln:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/abrahamlincoln
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Biography Channel page for Abraham Lincoln:
http://www.biography.com/people/abraham-lincoln-9382540
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Ford’s Theatre in Washington DC:
http://www.fordstheatre.org/
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Website for Lincoln Memorial:
http://www.nps.gov/linc/index.htm
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An art installation at DC’s Corcoran Gallery of art was inspired by a moment where the lives of Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln intersected. The museum’s curatorial text made me think of the song “Both Sides Now,” but here, more art inspired by the great Abraham Lincoln,
“Both Sides Now,” A Singable Picture Book and “My Business, with the Cloud,” Artwork at the Corcoran
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/03/07/both-sides-now-a-singable-picture-book-and-my-business-with-the-cloud-artwork-at-the-corcoran/
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Places I Love! A Collection of Links to SPB Posts Featuring Some of My Favorite Places on Earth
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/places-i-love-a-collection-of-links-to-spb-posts-featuring-some-of-my-favorite-places-on-earth/
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The Gettysburg Address, a Great Speech and a Singable Picture Book
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/06/12/the-gettysburg-address-a-great-speech-and-a-singable-picture-book/
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THE PRESIDENTS NAME SONG for Sing Books with Emily, A SINGABLE PICTURE BOOK
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/02/23/the-presidents-name-song-a-singable-picture-book/
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The Buck Stops Here: The Presidents of the United States, a Singable Picture Book:
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/abraham-lincoln-walks-at-midnight-a-singable-poem-by-vachel-lindsay/
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN WALKS AT MIDNIGHT, A SINGABLE POEM BY VACHEL LINDSAY
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/03/03/abraham-lincoln-walks-at-midnight-a-singable-poem-by-vachel-lindsay/
One of my favorite little songs to sing is The Little Turtle.
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“The Little Turtle” is a singable poem, written by Vachel Lindsay:
The Little Turtle
Poem Vachel Lindsay
There was a little turtle.
He lived in a box.
He swam in a puddle.
He climbed on the rocks.
He snapped at a mosquito.
He snapped at a flea.
He snapped at a minnow.
And he snapped at me.
He caught the mosquito.
He caught the flea.
He caught the minnow.
But he didn’t catch me.
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In a few places, I found this subtitle for the poem:
“A Recitation for Martha Wakefield, Three Years Old”
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Sing-along with me, “Little Turtle” on the SingBooksWithEmily MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/singbookswithemily
(Just scroll down the list of songs in the song box and you’ll find it there!)
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The poem was first published in Mr. Lindsay’s book ”The Golden Whales of California and Other Rhymes in the American Language” (New York: Macmillan, 1920): and then in his ”Collected Poems” (New York: Macmillan, 1923).
http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1308.html
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You will find “The Little Turtle” in oodles of compilations of children’s poetry, including:
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A Children’s Treasury of Poems
Illustrated by Linda Bleck
The Little Turtle is printed and illustrated in this book (which does not feature page numbers)
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A Family of Poems (My Favorite Poetry for Children)
Selected by Caroline Kennedy
Illustrated by Jon Muth
The Little Turtle is printed and illustrated on p.48
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Childcraft, Volume 1, Poems of Early Childhood
Published by Field Enterprises Educational Corporation
Words and Music by Various Artists
Illustrated by Various Artists
The Little Turtle is printed and illustrated on p. 96
(The pictures above show the binding and title page)
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Found on p. 96 of Childcraft, Volume 1, Poems of Early Childhood, Illustrated by Priscilla Pointer
The Little Turtle
Poem by Vachel Linsay
Traditional Tune
Illustrated by Priscilla Pointer
From: Childcraft, Volume 1, Poems of Early Childhood, p. 96
Sing LITTLE TURTLE with Emily, here:
https://soundcloud.com/singbookswithemily/there-was-a-little-turtle-eleg-2010
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(You can use all the tunes mentioned in this post to sing this rhyme…it’s a two-for-one!)
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Read a detailed biography of poet Vachel Lindsay on the website of the Poetry Foundation:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=80796
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A shorter, interesting biography on PoemHunter:
http://www.poemhunter.com/vachel-lindsay/biography/
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I found this online about John Alan Carpenter’s musical setting for “The Little Turtle,”
“Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) had wanted Carpenter, a long-time friend, to set his verse for nearly a decade before Carpenter finally composed “The Little Turtle” in 1926. Carpenter, ever drawn to children’s verse, chose a rather uncharacteristic poem Lindsay had written as “a recitation for Martha Wakefield, three years old.” Pollack writes that the “tune is folkish but somewhat jazzed up, with snazzy syncopations in the vocal lines and blue notes in the accompaniment. It is a children’s song for the jazz age and one of Carpenter’s most delightful.” The song is unpublished.”
http://www.dramonline.org/albums/songs-of-john-alden-carpenter/notes
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But I just happened to have been familiar with this recording, which uses a similar tune, sung by a classical baritone, to the one I had learned for this song:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Little-Turtle/dp/B000QWYQ66/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1282644296&sr=8-2
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You can also find a composition (sung by a woman who’s credit I couldn’t find…) for “The Little Turtle” on,
This is a fabulous CD with 90 songs delightfully and simply sung (so many children’s CDs over produce the songs, making them far too sugary and yuck). “90 Nifty Songs” has helped me learn or remember the tunes so MANY a snappy song.
The complete song list is on Peter Moses’s website:
http://www.petermoses.com/90niftysongs.htm
Peter Moses Website:
http://www.petermoses.com/
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POETRY SINGABLE POETRY IN COMPILATIONS
An list of singable poems from compilations of poetry for children
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/singable-poetry-a-list-of-poems-that-can-be-sung-from-illustrated-compilations-of-poetry-and-singable-picture-books/
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POETRY, SINGABLE POETRY IN INDIVIDUALLY ILLUSTRATED SINGABLE PICTURE BOOKS
A list of individually illustrated poems that have been set to music and can be sung
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/poems-individually-illustrated-spb/
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EDUCATIONAL CONTENT
A list of SPBs with fun and sneakily educational content. The kids won’t even know they’re learning!
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/singable-picture-books-with-sneaky-educational-content/
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The Little Turtle, a Singable Poem Song Sheet from Childcraft, for Poetry Month
http://singbookswithemily.wordpress.com/2013/04/08/the-little-turtle-a-singable-poem-song-sheet-from-childcraft-for-poetry-month/
With special thanks to my friend Jill Leger, I figured out how to post vocals on MySpace.com.
http://www.myspace.com/singbookswithemily
I am learning ways to share vocals and tunes for some of the wonderful songs housed in the Singable Picture Books. The learning process continues. But, for now, you can sing along with the following tunes on the “Sing Books with Emily” page on MySpace.com, http://www.myspace.com/singbookswithemily :
- “The Owl and the Pussycat” (Words by Edward Lear, Music by Lorraine Nelson Wolf and Janene Ping)
- “Stopping by Woods” (Words by Robert Frost, Tune of “Greensleeves”)
- “ZYX’s Next Time Let’s All Go to Texas” (Traditional Words and Tune)
- “Twinkle Little Bat” (Words by Lewis Carroll, Traditional Tune)
- “Little Turtle” (Words by Vachel Lindsay, Traditional Tune)
- “Hush Little Baby” (Traditional Words and Tune)
“The Owl and the Pussycat”
Owl and the Pussycat
Poem by Edward Lear
Illustrated by Jan Brett
“Stopping by Woods”
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Poem by Robert Frost
Illustrated by Susan Jeffers
“ZYX’s Next Time Let’s All Go to Texas”
You can sing the ZYX’s with any ABC book, but just to jog your memory, here are the letters:
Z Y X W V U T S R Q P O N M L K J I H G F E D C B A
Now I know my ZYX’s, next time let’s all go to Texas!
“Twinkle Little Bat”
The Mad Hatter sings “Twinkle Little Bat” when Alice visits the crazy tea party in Lewis Carroll’s classic “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.”
Poetry for Young People: Lewis Carroll
Edited by Edward Mendelson
Illustrated by Eric Copeland
(“Twinkle Little Bat” is the last poem printed in the book)
“Little Turtle”
A Children’s Treasury of Poems
Illustrated by Linda Bleck
(“Little Turtle,” by Vachel Lindsay is included in this charming book of poetry for children.)
“Hush, Little Baby”
Hush, Little Baby
Traditional words and tune
Illustrated by Marla Frazee
