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The American serenade

Description:
  • lyric by Wm Le Baron; music by Victor Herbert
  • For voice, piano, and chorus (TTBB)
  • Caption title
  • From musical play: Her regiment
Year:
1917
Contributor:
Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924 (composer)
LeBaron, William, 1883-1958 (lyricist)
T.B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
Ragtime music > Songs and music
Musicals
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
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The American serenade

Description:
  • lyric by Wm Le Baron; music by Victor Herbert
  • For voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • From musical play: Her regiment
Year:
1917
Contributor:
Herbert, Victor, 1859-1924 (composer)
LeBaron, William, 1883-1958 (lyricist)
T.B. Harms & Francis, Day & Hunter (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
Ragtime music > Songs and music
Musicals
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Bring de banjo, Ebenezer:: plantation song

Description:
  • words and music by Geo. M. Vickers
  • For voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • Dedicated to: Mrs. Jacob B. Barnes
  • Advertisement for Bromo-Seltzer: p. [4]
  • Cover …
Year:
1899
Contributor:
Vickers, George M. (George Morley), b. 1841 (creator)
Emerson Drug Co. (Baltimore, Md.) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Commence ye darkies all: plantation melody

Description:
  • words & music by W.D. Corrister.
  • For voice and piano.
  • Cover title.
  • Additional verses: p. 4 [i.e. p. 5
Contributor:
Corrister, W. D. (composer)
Firth, Pond & Co. (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Music > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
African American musicians
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Commence ye darkies all!

Description:
  • written and composed by W.D. Corrister.
  • For voice and piano.
  • Caption title.
  • Also appears as no. 2 of this series.
  • Sung by: White's Serenaders.
  • Additional …
Contributor:
Corrister, W. D. (composer)
White's Serenaders (performer)
Firth, Pond & Co. (publisher)
Subject:
White, Charles > 1821-1891
Marks, Master
White's Serenaders
African Americans > Music > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
African American musicians
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Creole love song:: Op. 4

Description:
  • words and music by Edgar B. Smith
  • For alto or baritone and piano in B♭
  • Caption title
  • Advertisement for "When the land was white with …
Year:
1889
Contributor:
Smith, Edgar B. (Edgar Belmont) (composer)
Hale, F. G. (illustrator)
Oliver Ditson Company (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Creoles > Songs and music
Love songs
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Creole love song:: Op. 4

Description:
  • words and music by Edgar B. Smith
  • For high voice and piano in D
  • Caption title
  • Dedicated to: Mrs. Morgan D. Lewis
  • Advertisement for "Surrender" …
Year:
1889
Contributor:
Smith, Edgar B. (Edgar Belmont) (composer)
Oliver Ditson Company (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Creoles > Songs and music
Love songs
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Cudjos wild hunt: a parody on Lutzows wild hunt

Description:
  • written by Anthony F. Winnemore ; and sung by the Ethiopean [sic] Serenaders with great applause.
  • For voice, chorus (TTBB) and piano.
  • Caption title.
  • Verse …
Contributor:
Winnemore, A. F. (Anthony F.) (composer)
Spoodlyks (illustrator)
Ethiopian Serenaders (performer)
C.G. Christman (Music publisher) (publisher)
Subject:
Quinn, C. J.
Winnemore, A. F. (Anthony F.)
Baker, J.
African Americans > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Banjo music > Songs and music
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Do not go away my lady love

Description:
  • composed by C. White
  • For voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • Sung by: White's Serenaders
  • Additional verses: p. 5
  • Song also appears as no. 3 of …
Year:
1850
Contributor:
White, Charles, 1821-1891 (creator)
White's Serenaders (performer)
Firth, Pond & Co. (publisher)
Subject:
White, Charles > 1821-1891
Marks, Master
White's Serenaders
African Americans > Songs and music
African American women
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Do not go away my lady love

Description:
  • composed by C. White
  • For voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • Sung by: White's Serenaders
  • Additional verses: p. 5
  • Song also appears as no. 2 of …
Year:
1850
Contributor:
White, Charles, 1821-1891 (creator)
White's Serenaders (performer)
Firth, Pond & Co. (publisher)
Subject:
White, Charles > 1821-1891
Marks, Master
White's Serenaders
African Americans > Songs and music
African American women
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Git along home my yaler gall: an original Negro lyric

Description:
  • composed by E.P. Christy, and sung with immense applause by Christy's original band of minstrels.
  • For voice and piano.
  • Caption title.
  • Additional verses: p. 4 …
Contributor:
Christy, Edwin Pearce, 1815-1862 (composer)
Christy Minstrels (performer)
C.G. Christman (Music publisher) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Jenny get your hoe cake done: the celebrated banjo song

Description:
  • as sung with great applause at the Broadway Circus, by J.W. Sweeny.
  • For voice and piano.
  • Cover title.
  • Verses 2-11 printed on p. [3]
  • Cover …
Contributor:
Sweeny, J. W. (Joel Walker), 1813-1860 (performer)
Firth & Hall (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Slavery > United States > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

The old banjo:: favorite Ethiopian melody

Description:
  • words by Bob Lively; music composed expressly for J.P. Ordway Esq. by I. Louis Brackett
  • For voice, piano, and chorus (tenor, tenor, air, bass)
  • Cover …
Year:
1852
Contributor:
Brackett, I. Louis (composer)
Lively, Robert (lyricist)
Ordway's Aeolians (performer)
E.H. Wade (Music Publisher) (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Music > Songs and music
African American dance
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Old Josey:: song and chorus

Description:
  • by Wurzel
  • For voice, piano and chorus (SATB)
  • Cover title
Year:
1854
Contributor:
Root, George F. (George Frederick), 1820-1895 (composer)
William Hall & Son (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
African American musicians > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Ole bull and Dan Tucker

Description:
  • composed & sung by W.W. Warre.
  • For voice and piano.
  • Caption title.
  • Additional verses: p. 5.
  • Cover illustration: lithographed design with caricatures of Afro-American musicians. …
Contributor:
Warre, W. W. (composer)
Warre, W. W. (performer)
Firth & Hall (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
African American musicians > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Philena my dear, or, She dances so neatly

Description:
  • words and melody by S.A. Wells; music arranged by J.P. Ordway
  • For voice, piano, and chorus (SATB)
  • Cover title
  • Additional verses: p. 5
Year:
1850
Contributor:
Wells, S. A. (creator)
Ordway, J. P. (John Pond), fl. 1840 (arranger)
E.H. Wade (Music publisher) (publisher)
Subject:
African American dance > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
African American women > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Playing on de golden strings

Description:
  • words and music by Samuel H. Speck
  • For voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • Pages 1-2 are unnumbered
  • "As sung in the Rays' howling success 'A …
Year:
1899
Contributor:
Speck, Samuel H. (Samuel Henry), b. 1854 (composer)
Rays (performer)
W.J. Fielding & Co. (publisher)
Subject:
Rays
African American musicians > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Sambo and Dinah

Description:
  • lyrics by Bob Cole and James W. Johnson; music by Bob Cole
  • For voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • Sung by Mr. John McVeigh and Miss …
Year:
1904
Contributor:
Cole, Bob, 1868-1911 (composer)
Daly, Nellie (performer)
McVeigh, John (performer)
Jos. W. Stern & Co. (publisher)
Subject:
African Americans > Songs and music
Love songs
Banjo music > Songs and music
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Say you love me, Sue

Description:
  • written by Harry B. Smith; composed by John Stromberg
  • For voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • Sung by: Peter F. Dailey
  • Cover illustration: photograph of Peter …
Year:
1899
Contributor:
Stromberg, John, 1853-1902 (composer)
Dailey, Peter F., 1868-1908 (performer)
Smith, Harry Bache, 1860-1936 (lyricist)
G. E. (illustrator)
Weber, Fields & Stromberg (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
Dailey, Peter F. > 1868-1908
African Americans > Songs and music
Plantation life > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
United States > Race relations
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

Say you love me, Sue

Description:
  • written by Harry B. Smith; composed by John Stromberg
  • For voice and piano
  • Caption title
  • Sung by: Peter F. Dailey
  • Advertisements for other songs: p. …
Year:
1899
Contributor:
Stromberg, John, 1853-1902 (composer)
Dailey, Peter F., 1868-1908 (performer)
Smith, Harry Bache, 1860-1936 (lyricist)
G. E. (illustrator)
Weber, Fields & Stromberg (New York, N.Y.) (publisher)
Subject:
Dailey, Peter F. > 1868-1908
African Americans > Songs and music
Plantation life > Songs and music
Banjo music > Songs and music
Popular music > United States
United States > Race relations
Collection:
Brown University Library
Representations of Blackness in Music of the United States (1830-1920)
Full Record

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