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George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter: A Biography. By Polly H. Carder. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2008.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 February 2013
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1 Root, George F., The Story of a Musical Life (Cincinnati, OH: John Church, 1891; reprint ed., New York: Da Capo Press, 1970), 130Google Scholar.
2 Ibid., 132.
3 Polly H. Carder, “George Frederick Root, Pioneer Music Educator: His Contributions to Mass Instruction in Music” (Ed.D. dissertation, University of Maryland, 1971).
4 Root used variant spellings of his pseudonym. In Story of a Musical Life, he gave the spelling as “G. Friederich Wurzel” (83) but listed “G. Friedrich Wurzel” as the composer of “Fare Thee Well, Kitty Dear” (Carder 45).
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