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Sheet Music

Popular songs of nineteenth-century America : complete original sheet music for 64 songs

Call Number

  • R 784.8 J13 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Dover Publications, 1976.

Physical Description

xiv, 290 p. : facsims. ; 30 cm.

Notes

"Notes on the music": p. 261-287.

Contents

  • Adeste fideles
  • All quiet along the Potomac to-night
  • America (My country! 'tis of thee)
  • The Arkansas traveller
  • Aura Lea
  • The battle cry of freedom
  • Battle hymn of the republic (Glory, glory, hallelujah)
  • Beautiful river
  • Ben Bolt
  • The bonnie blue flag
  • Camptown races (gwine to run all night)
  • Carry me back to old Virginny
  • Champagne Charlie
  • Darling Nelly Gray
  • Der deitcher's dog (Oh where oh where has my little dog gone)
  • Dixie's land (Dixie)
  • Down in Alabam' (or Aint I glad I got out de wilderness)
  • The flying trapeze
  • Goober peas
  • Grandfather's clock
  • Home! sweet home!
  • I'll take you home again, Kathleen
  • In the evening by the moonlight.
  • (Contents con't.) Jim crack corn (or The blue tail fly)
  • Jingle bells (or The one horse open sleigh)
  • Johnny get your gun
  • Just before the battle, Mother
  • Kingdom coming
  • Listen to the mocking bird
  • The little brown jug
  • Long, long ago
  • Lorena
  • Marching through Georgia
  • Maryland, my Maryland!
  • My old Kentucky home
  • The ocean burial
  • Oh, dem golden slippers!
  • Oh my darling Clementine
  • Oh! Susanna
  • Old Black Joe
  • Old Dan Tucker
  • Old folks at home (Way down upon the Swanee River)
  • The old oaken bucket
  • Old Rosin the beau
  • Pop goes the weasel
  • Reuben and Rachel
  • Rock'd in the cradle of the deep
  • Shew! fly, don't bother me
  • Silver threads among the gold
  • Sweet by and by
  • Sweet Genevieve
  • Tenting on the old camp ground
  • There is a tavern in the town.
  • (Contents con't.) Tramp! tramp! tramp! (or The prisoner's hope)
  • Vive la compagnie
  • Wait for the wagon
  • We won't go home till morning
  • When I saw sweet Nelly home
  • When Johnny comes marching home
  • When you and I were young, Maggie
  • Whispering hope
  • Woodman! spare that tree!
  • The yellow rose of Texas
  • Zip coon.

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