Table of Contents
From fuguing tunes to martial tunes:William Billings --Songs with sentiment:Henry Russell --Songs of the blackface minstrel:Dan Emmett --Songs of the negro, 1:Stephen Foster --Songs of the negro, 2:James A. Bland --Songs of the Civil War, 1:George Frederick Root --Songs of the Civil War, 2:Henry Clay Work --Songs of the sentimental nineties:Paul Dresser --Songs from Tin Pan Alley:Harry von Tilzer --Songs from vaudeville:Gus Edwards --Songs from operetta:Victor Herbert --Songs from musical comedy, 1:George M. Cohan --Songs with syncopation:Irving Berlin --Songs with the blues, 1:W.C. Handy --Songs from musical comedy, 2:Jerome Kern (and P.G. Wodehouse and Otto Harbach) --Songs of the 1920's, 1:Vincent Youmans --Songs of the 1920's, 2: De Sylva, Brown, and Henderson --Songs of the 1920's and 1930's, 1:Geoge and Ira Gershwin --Songs of the 1920's and 1930's, 2:Rodgers and Hart --Songs of the 1920's and 1930's, 3:Cole Porter --Songs from the little revues:Arthur Schwartz (and Howard Dietz) --Songs with social significance:Harold Rome --Songs with the blues, 2:Harold Arlen (and E.Y. Harburg and Johnny Mercer) --Songs from World War II:Frank Loesser --Songs from musical plays, 1:Rodgers and Hammerstein --Songs from musical plays, 2:Lerner and Loewe --Songs from the movies, 1:Harry Warren (and Al Dubin) --Songs from the movies, 2:James Van Heusen (and Sammy Cahn) --Songs from the movies, 3:Henry Mancini --Songs of protest:Bob Dylan --Songs with the Nashville sound:Johnny Cash --Songs of the 1960's and 1970's:Burt Bacharach and Hal David.