. Famous American songs. he calledhis ittly pizani (little piano), on thefloor, and pick out harmonies on the 45 famom American ^ongg strings. At eight years of age he taughthimself the flute, and later the first composition to be publiclyperformed was a waltz, the Tioga,which he wrote for four flutes, andplayed with three of his fellow-stu-dents at the commencement of the Ath-ens (Pennsylvania) Academy, where itwas received with great applause. Hisfirst published song was Open thyLattice, Love. He was then he was nineteen he formed asinging club among the young men ofhi
. Famous American songs. he calledhis ittly pizani (little piano), on thefloor, and pick out harmonies on the 45 famom American ^ongg strings. At eight years of age he taughthimself the flute, and later the first composition to be publiclyperformed was a waltz, the Tioga,which he wrote for four flutes, andplayed with three of his fellow-stu-dents at the commencement of the Ath-ens (Pennsylvania) Academy, where itwas received with great applause. Hisfirst published song was Open thyLattice, Love. He was then he was nineteen he formed asinging club among the young men ofhis acquaintance. It met twice a weekat his fathers house, and he a while he began composingsongs for this club. The first was TheLouisiana Belle. A week later hewrote one of his best known songs,Uncle Ned. As an illustration ofhis happy faculty of expression it ispointed out that when he wrote theline, His fingers were long like decane in de brake, he never had beenbelow the Ohio, yet the aptness of the46. €)lt) folfejS at J^ome simile will strike anyone who has seena sugar-cane plantation. In running over the list of StephenCollins Fosters songs it is found toinclude many that are so familiar thatthe popular mind does not associatethem with any particular composer,but takes for granted that they justgrowed. Nothing could go farther toprove that although they were con-sciously composed, they have all thecharacteristics of genuine folk songs,and that, simple as they are (threechords of the key usually suffice Fos-ter for harmony), they are destined tosurvive. A year after he had composedUncle Ned, and while he was clerk-ing it in his brother Dunnings officein Cincinnati, he wrote Oh, having as yet taken up music pro-fessionally, he made a present of thesetwo songs to a friend, who cleared tenthousand dollars from them, and de-veloped what was then a small musi-cal publishing business into one of the 47 ifamoug american ^ongg largest houses in its lin
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