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Emily's songbook : music in 1850s Albany / edited by Mark Slobin, James Kimball, Katherine K. Preston, and Deane Root.

Format Musical Score and Print
Publication InfoMiddleton, Wis. : A-R Editions, ©2011.
Description1 score (vii, 344 pages) : facsimiles ; 31 cm.
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorSlobin, Mark, editor.
Other author/creatorKimball, James W., 1941- editor.
Other author/creatorPreston, Katherine K. editor.
Other author/creatorRoot, Deane L., editor.
Other author/creatorMcKissick, Emily, 1836-1919, compiler.
Portion of title Music in 1850s Albany
Variant title Music in eighteen fifties Albany
Series Recent researches in the oral traditions of music, 0147-0086 ; 9
Recent researches in the oral traditions of music 9. ^A682715
Contents The Sontag polka / Charles Louis Napoléon d'Albert, arr. ; after Giulio Alary, "My heart with joy is bounding light" -- Now I lub Sukey dearly / William Clifton -- My old Kentucky home, good night / Stephen C. Foster -- The blue Juniata / Marion Dix Sullivan ; Edward L. White, arr. -- Kitty Neil / James Gaspard Maeder -- The mountain maid's invitation / Thoma Power, words ; anonymous, music ; Heinrich Werner, arr. -- Nancy Till / Charles A. White -- Doubt not / J.M. Knowlton, words ; J.T. Wamelink, music -- The silver lake / James Gates Percival, words ; anonymous, music -- Farewell my Lilly dear / Stephen C. Foster -- Lilly Dale / Henry S. Thompson -- Go and ask my mother / John Hill Hewitt, words ; Le Brun, music -- The wild haunts for me / anonymous -- The song of Blanche Alpen / Charles Jefferys, words ; Stephen Glover, music -- Never again / Charles William Glover -- Violets / E.C.B. -- A seat beside the hearth of home / Miss R.A.A., words ; Oliver J. Shaw, arr. ; [after] Giovanni Paisiello, "Nel cor più" -- Flow gently, sweet Afton / Robert Burns, words ; Jonathan E. Spilman, music -- The other side of Jordan / Edwin Pearce Christy -- Oh! do not say I love thee not / Alice Vernon, words ; Charles Minster, music -- Emma Dale / William N. Chambers, words ; J.P. Temple, music -- Yes! I should like to marry / H.P. Grattan, words ; John Thomas Craven, music -- Life is but a strife / anonymous -- The watcher / Sarah Josepha Buell Hale, words ; Dr. William Lardner, music -- Home again / Marshall Spring Pike ; John Pond Ordway, arr. -- I'll pray for thee / William Ball, words ; Gaetano Donizetti, music -- When the day with rosy light / J. Augustine Wade, words ; Franz Anton Adam Stockhausen, arr. -- Where is my lover? / Thomas Haynes Bayly, words ; Edmund Kean, melody ; Edward Knight Jr., arr. -- Be kind to the loved ones at home / Isaac Baker Woodbury -- The sister's love / B.R. Samuel Beman, words ; Miss L. Smith, music -- Bird of the wilderness / James Hogg, words ; William R. Dempster, music -- The spell is broken / Juliet Bellchambers ; L.T.B., arr. -- The star spangled banner / Francis Scott Key, words ; John Stafford Smith, music ; annonymous, arr. -- When shall we two meet again / Joseph Edwards Carpenter, words ; Stephen Glover, music -- Would I were with thee / Caroline Sheridan Norton, words ; Emilia Langlotz, music -- My Unkle Ned / Stephen C. Foster ; William Clifton, arr. -- I have something sweet to tell you / Frances Sargent Locke Osgood, words ; James Couenhoven, music -- It is better to laugh than be sighing / George Linley, words (after Felice Romani) ; Gaetano Donizetti, music ; George Linley, arr. -- Carry me back to old Virginia / Charles A. White ; Edwin Pearce Christy, arr. -- The ocean burial / George Nelson Allen -- 'Tis said that absence conquers love / Frederick William Thomas, words ; E. Thomas, music -- Thou hast learned to love another / William Jarvis Wetmore -- Power of music / Eliza Cook, words ; Leonce G.A. Seche, music -- Love not / Caroline Sheridan Norton, words ; John Blockley, music -- Would I were with thee / Caroline Sheridan Norton, words ; Carlo Bosetti, music -- Massa's in de cold ground / Stephen C. Foster.
General noteThe 1st work for piano; the remainder for voice and piano, in part with chorus refrain.
General noteFacsimile of a bound collection of sheet music printed between 1822 and 1857 and collected by Emily Esperanza McKissick.
General notePref. and an introductory essay by each editor.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indices.
ISBN0895797062
ISBN9780895797063
Publisher numberOT9 A-R Editions

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