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Aunt Sis Tabb
Description:
words and music by Will L. Visscher; arranged by W. Herbert Lanyon
For voice and piano
Cover title
Pages 1-2 are unnumbered
Advertisement for other ...
Date Issued:
1894
Contributors:
Visscher, Will L. (William Lightfoot), 1842-1924 (creator)
Lanyon, W. Herbert (arranger)
D E. N. (illustrator)
Temple Music Co. (Chicago, Ill.) (publisher)
Keywords:
African American women
Songs and music
Death songs
Full Record
But still the war goes on
Description:
words by W. Bruce Campbell ; music by E.S.S. Huntington.
For voice and piano.
Caption title.
Cover illustration: soldier leading charge out of trench.
Date Issued:
1917
Collection Title:
World War I Sheet Music
Contributors:
Huntington, E. S. S. (composer)
Campbell, W. Bruce (lyricist)
Arlington Music Pub. Co. (Providence, R.I.) (publisher)
Keywords:
World War, 1914-1918
Songs and music
Death songs
Popular music
Full Record
Coloured angels, or, Is dar any coloured angels dar?
Description:
written & composed by Nat Clifford
For voice and piano
Cover title
Sung by: Miss Queenie Leighton
Cover illustration: photograph of Queenie Leighton; floral border ...
Date Issued:
1890
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music
Contributors:
Clifford, Nat (composer)
Leighton, Queenie, 1872-1943 (performer)
Moon & Co. (London, England) (publisher)
Keywords:
African American children
Songs and music
Angels
Death songs
Popular music
Full Record
The death of Little Eva & Uncle Tom
Description:
composed & respectfully dedicated to Mrs. Harriett Beecher Stowe; poetry by Chas. L. Bennison; music by Isaac N. Bonney
For voice, piano, and chorus (TASB ...
Date Issued:
1853
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music
Contributors:
Bonney, Isaac N. (composer)
Bennison, Charles L. (lyricist)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher,, 1811-1896 (author)
Oliver Ditson Company (publisher)
Keywords:
African Americans
Songs and music
Death songs
Popular music
Full Record
Dinah Crow:
a celebrated Ethiopian song
Description:
as sung by the Campbell Minstrels ; composed and arranged for the piano forte, by J.H. Burdett.
For voice, men's chorus (TTBB), and piano.
Cover ...
Date Issued:
c1848
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music
Contributors:
Burdett, J. H. (composer)
Campbell Minstrels (performer)
William Hall & Son (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Keywords:
African Americans
Songs and music
Boating accidents
Death songs
Popular music
Full Record
Dinah Doe
Description:
written by S.S. Steele; composed and sung by A.F. Winnemore
For voice and piano
Caption title
Additional verses: p. 3
Date Issued:
185-?
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music: A Brown University Digital Collection
Contributors:
Winnemore, A. F. (Anthony F.) (creator)
Steele, S. S. (Silas Sexton), b. 1812 (lyricist)
Winnemore, A. F. (Anthony F.) (performer)
Keywords:
African American women
Songs and music
Slavery
Death songs
Full Record
Do de angels weep?::
story song and refrain
Description:
words by Will A. Cook; music by C.A. Egener
For voice and piano
Cover title
At head of title: Sung with great success by ...
Date Issued:
1903
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music
Contributors:
Egener, C. A. (composer)
Cooke, Will A. (lyricist)
Trayer, Katherine (performer)
M. Witmark & Sons (publisher)
Keywords:
African American children
Songs and music
Death songs
Popular music
Full Record
The dying wife
Description:
written by John T. Ford; sung by G. Kunkel; music by E. Thomas
For voice, piano, and chorus (SATB)
Caption title
Advertisement for other songs ...
Date Issued:
1852
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music
Contributors:
Thomas, E. (composer)
Kunkel, G. (George), 1822 or 3-1885 (performer)
Ford, John T. (John Thomson), 1829-1894 (lyricist)
W.C. Peters & Sons (Cincinnati, Ohio) (publisher)
Keywords:
African American women
Songs and music
Death songs
Full Record
Ella Ree::
a new Ethiopian melody
Description:
written by Charles E. Stewart; music by James W. Porter
For voice, piano, and chorus (SATB)
Cover title
Lyricist's name appears as C.E. Steuart ...
Date Issued:
1853
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music
Contributors:
Porter, James W. (composer)
Stewart, Charles E. (lyricist)
McCarthy, E. (illustrator)
Wood's Minstrels (performer)
J.E. Gould (Music publisher) (publisher)
Keywords:
African American women
Songs and music
Death songs
Full Record
Ella Ree::
a new Ethiopian melody
Description:
written by Charles E. Stewart; music by James W. Porter
For voice, piano, and chorus (SATB)
Cover title
Lyricist's name appears as C.E. Steuart ...
Date Issued:
1880
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music
Contributors:
Porter, James W. (composer)
Stewart, Charles E. (lyricist)
McCarthy, E. (illustrator)
Wood's Minstrels (performer)
Oliver Ditson (Firm) (publisher)
Keywords:
African American women
Songs and music
Death songs
Full Record
Eva's parting::
subject taken from Uncle Tom's cabin
Description:
written by Mary A. Collier; music composed by F. James
For voice and piano
Cover title
Cover engraved by Greene Sc.
Library's copy inscribed: Agnes ...
Date Issued:
1852
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music
Contributors:
James, F. (composer)
Collier, Mary A. (lyricist)
Greene, Henry (illustrator)
G.P. Reed & Co. (Boston, Mass.) (publisher)
Keywords:
African Americans
Songs and music
Freedmen
Death songs
Popular music
Full Record
He sleeps beneath the soil of France
Description:
by Tell Taylor.
For voice and piano.
Caption title.
Advertisement for other songs: p. [4]
Cover illustration: drawing of man and woman by fireside; photograph ...
Date Issued:
1917
Collection Title:
World War I Sheet Music: A Brown University Digital Collection
Contributors:
Taylor, Tell (composer)
Tell Taylor Music Publisher (Chicago, Ill.) (publisher)
Keywords:
World War, 1914-1918
Songs and music
Soldiers
Family relationships
Death songs
Full Record
I am going there, or, The death of little Eva
Description:
written and inscribed to the readers of "Uncle Tom's cabin" by John S. Adams; adapted to a favorite melody
For voice and piano
Cover title ...
Date Issued:
1852
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music
Contributors:
Adams, John S. (John Stowell), d. 1893 (creator)
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896 (creator)
Oliver Ditson Company (publisher)
Keywords:
African Americans in literature
Songs and music
African Americans
Death songs
Full Record
I'll meet ole massa there::
song & chorus
Description:
words & music by G. Galloway
For voice, chorus (SATB) and piano
Caption title
Advertisement for other music and books: p. [6]
Cover illustration: elderly ...
Date Issued:
1885
Collection Title:
African American Sheet Music
Contributors:
Galloway, G. (composer)
White, Smith & Co. (Boston, Mass.) (publisher)
Keywords:
African Americans
Songs and music
Freedman
Death songs
Old age
Full Record
I'se comin' close to eighty year::
song and chorus
Description:
words and music by George M. Vickers
For voice and piano
Caption title
Date Issued:
1882
Contributors:
Vickers, George M. (George Morley), b. 1841 (creator)
Jno. P. Dougherty (Music publisher) (publisher)
Keywords:
African American men
Songs and music
Death songs
Full Record
In Flanders fields:
song
Description:
words by John McCrae ; music by J. Deane Wells.
For voice and piano.
Cover title.
Advertisement for another song: p. [6]
Composer's autograph printed on ...
Date Issued:
1917
Collection Title:
World War I Sheet Music: A Brown University Digital Collection
Contributors:
Wells, J. Deane (composer)
McCrae, John, 1872-1918 (lyricist)
Western Specialty Limited (Vancouver, B.C.) (publisher)
Keywords:
World War, 1914-1918
Songs and music
Death songs
Popular music
Full Record
In Flanders fields
Description:
on words by John McCrae ; music by W.H. Leib.
For high voice and piano.
Caption title.
"First sung in public July 16, 1918, by ...
Date Issued:
1918
Collection Title:
World War I Sheet Music: A Brown University Digital Collection
Contributors:
Leib, W. H. (composer)
Geddes-Bendelari, Frances (performer)
W.H. Leib (Music publisher) (publisher)
Keywords:
World War, 1914-1918
Songs and music
Popular music
Death songs
Full Record
In Flanders fields
Description:
poem by John McCrae ; music by Charles Gilbert Spross.
For low voice and piano in A major.
Cover title.
Advertisement for other songs: p. [8 ...
Date Issued:
1918
Collection Title:
World War I Sheet Music
Contributors:
Spross, Charles Gilbert, 1874-1962 (composer)
McCrae, John, 1872-1918 (lyricist)
Lyford, Philip, 1887- (illustrator)
John Church Company (Cincinnati, Ohio) (publisher)
Keywords:
World War, 1914-1918
Songs and music
Death songs
Full Record
In Flanders fields
Description:
poem by John McCrae ; music by Charles Gilbert Spross.
For high voice and piano in Dâ major.
Cover title.
Cover illustration: drawing of cemetery scene ...
Date Issued:
1918
Collection Title:
World War I Sheet Music
Contributors:
Spross, Charles Gilbert, 1874-1961 (composer)
McCrae, John, 1872-1918 (lyricist)
Lyford, Philip, 1887- (illustrator)
John Church Company (Cincinnati, Ohio) (publisher)
Keywords:
World War, 1914-1918
Songs and music
Death songs
Full Record
In Flanders fields
Description:
words by John McRae ; music by Mark Andrews.
For high voice and piano.
Cover title.
"To my friend Mary Jordan"--P. 3.
Advertisement for another ...
Date Issued:
1919
Collection Title:
World War I Sheet Music
Contributors:
Andrews, Mark, 1875-1939 (composer)
McCrae, John, 1872-1918 (lyricist)
Huntzinger & Dilworth (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Keywords:
World War, 1914-1918
Songs and music
Battlefields
Death songs
Popular music
Full Record
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