Editing Stephen Foster (section)

==Music==
{{see also|List of songs by Stephen Foster}}Foster grew up in Lawrenceville, now a neighborhood of Pittsburgh, where many European immigrants had settled and were accustomed to hearing the music of the Italian, [[Scotch-Irish Americans|Scots-Irish]], and German residents. He composed his first song when he was 14 and entitled it the "Tioga Waltz". The first song that he had published was "Open thy Lattice Love" (1844).<ref name=CFAM>{{cite web | title= Foster Hall Collection, Collection Number: CAM.FHC.2011.01, Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections at the University of Pittsburgh Library System |publisher= University of Pittsburgh, Center for American Music| url = http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/f/findaid/findaid-idx?type=simple;c=ascead;view=text;subview=outline;didno=US-PPiU-camfhc201101
|access-date= October 13, 2015}} Access provided by the University of Pittsburgh.</ref><ref name=Barcousky2016>{{cite news |last= Barcousky |first=Len |title= Eyewitness 1916: Living link to Foster passes on |url= http://www.post-gazette.com/news/portfolio/2016/02/14/Eyewitness-1916-Living-link-to-Foster-passes-on/stories/201602140140 |access-date= April 27, 2016 |work= Pittsburgh Post Gazette |date= February 14, 2016}}</ref> He wrote songs in support of drinking, such as "My Wife Is a Most Knowing Woman", "Mr. and Mrs. Brown", and "When the Bowl Goes Round", while also composing temperance songs such as "Comrades Fill No Glass for Me" or "The Wife".<ref name=SAND/>

Foster also authored many church hymns, although the inclusion of his hymns in hymnals ended by 1910. Some of the hymns are "Seek and ye shall find",<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.hymnary.org/hymn/WCH1863/106|title="Waters' Choral Harp: a new and superior collection of choice hymns and tunes, mostly new, written and composed for Sunday schools, missionary, revival, and social meetings, and for church worship 106. Who has our Redeemer heard" |work= Hymnary.org |access-date= August 23, 2016}}</ref> "All around is bright and fair, While we work for Jesus",<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.hymnary.org/text/all_around_is_bright_and_fair_while_we_w |title= All around is bright and fair, While we work for Jesus |work= Hymnary.org |access-date= August 23, 2016}}</ref> and "Blame not those who weep and sigh".<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.hymnary.org/text/blame_not_those_who_weep_and_sigh |title="Blame, not those who weep and sigh" |work=Hymnary.org |access-date= August 23, 2016}}</ref> Several rare Civil War-era hymns by Foster were performed by The Old Stoughton Musical Society Chorus, including "The Pure, The Bright, The Beautiful", "Over The River", "Give Us This Day", and "What Shall The Harvest Be?".{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}{{when|date=February 2023}} He also arranged many works by [[Mozart]], [[Beethoven]], [[Donizetti]], [[Joseph Lanner|Lanner]], [[Carl Maria von Weber|Weber]] and [[Schubert]] for flute and guitar.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}

Foster usually sent his handwritten scores directly to his publishers. The publishers kept the sheet music manuscripts and did not give them to libraries nor return them to his heirs. Some of his original, hand-written scores were bought and put into private collections and the [[Library of Congress]].<ref name=Root/>
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He was inducted into the [[Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 1970, and he was also inducted into the [[Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame]] in 2010.-->

===Popular songs===
"[[My Old Kentucky Home]]" is the official state song of Kentucky, adopted by the General Assembly on March 19, 1928.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

Foster's songs, lyrics, and melodies have often been altered by publishers and performers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Steel |first1=David Warren |title=The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture; Volume 12: Music|chapter=Foster, Stephen (1826–1864) Composer and Songwriter|date=2008 |pages=229–230 |publisher= University of North Carolina Press |jstor= 10.5149/9781469616667_malone.86|isbn=9780807832394 }} Access provided by the University of Pittsburgh</ref>

In 1957 [[Ray Charles]] released a version of "Old Folks at Home" that was titled "Swanee River Rock (Talkin’ ’Bout That River)", which became his first pop hit that November.<ref>Whitburn, Joel, Top R&B Singles, 1942–1999, p. 74.</ref>

In the 2000s{{when|date=February 2023}} "[[Old Folks at Home]]", designated the official state song of Florida in 1935,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.flheritage.com/facts/symbols/symbol.cfm?id=22 |title=The State Anthem: "Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)" |publisher=State of Florida |access-date=April 29, 2011}}</ref> came under attack for what some regarded as offensive terms in the song's lyrics. Changes were made to them with the approval of the [[Stephen Foster Memorial]].{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}{{when|date=February 2023}} The modified song was kept as the official state song, while "[[Florida (Where the Sawgrass Meets the Sky)]]" was added as the state anthem.{{citation needed|date=February 2023}}

A 1974 published collection, ''Stephen Foster Song Book; Original Sheet Music of 40 Songs'' (New York : Dover Publications, Inc.,) of Stephen Foster's popular songs was edited by musicologist [[Richard Jackson (musicologist)|Richard Jackson]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |date=2001 |title=Jackson, Richard (Hammel)|encyclopedia=[[The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians|Grove Music Online]] |series=Oxford Music Online |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|author=Paula Morgan|doi=10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.47105}}</ref>