The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music at the Johns Hopkins University



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Baltimore Publishers Circus Civil War Comic Composers Costume Dance Drinking, Temperance, Smoking Eighteenth Century Fire Fraternal Orders Highspots Illustrators Juvenile Lafayette Lind, Jenny Liturgical Lyricists Maritime Mexican War Military Minstrels Money Music Stores and Publishers Musical Comedies and Operettas Patriotic Penny Song Sheets Postal Service Presidents Romantic and Sentimental Schools and Colleges Songsters Spanish-American War Sports Stage and Screen Personalities Transportation War of 1812 World War I	LYRICISTS Boxes 63-66 (500 items) The works of many important authors were set to music. Burns, Byron, Scott, Tennyson and Shakespeare are widely represented among the English authors. There are several songs with works by Charles Dickens and some items suggested by passages in Dickens' works. "The Boz Waltzes" and "The Boz Quadrilles" were played at the ball given for Dickens at the Park Theatre, New York during his first U.S. visit in 1842. The songs in the collection were printed in this country and composed, largely, by American musicians. Lyrics were written by various American authors from Aldrich to Whittier. The American authors whose poems were most widely set to music were Longfellow and Whittier. Of great rarity is a set of 6 songs to the poetry of Bret Harte. There are 13 songs from a musical comedy with lyrics by O. Henry, probably his only venture into this field. << Back \| Next >>

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Baltimore Publishers Circus Civil War Comic Composers Costume Dance Drinking, Temperance, Smoking Eighteenth Century Fire Fraternal Orders Highspots Illustrators Juvenile Lafayette Lind, Jenny Liturgical Lyricists Maritime Mexican War Military Minstrels Money Music Stores and Publishers Musical Comedies and Operettas Patriotic Penny Song Sheets Postal Service Presidents Romantic and Sentimental Schools and Colleges Songsters Spanish-American War Sports Stage and Screen Personalities Transportation War of 1812 World War I	LYRICISTS Boxes 63-66 (500 items) The works of many important authors were set to music. Burns, Byron, Scott, Tennyson and Shakespeare are widely represented among the English authors. There are several songs with works by Charles Dickens and some items suggested by passages in Dickens' works. "The Boz Waltzes" and "The Boz Quadrilles" were played at the ball given for Dickens at the Park Theatre, New York during his first U.S. visit in 1842. The songs in the collection were printed in this country and composed, largely, by American musicians. Lyrics were written by various American authors from Aldrich to Whittier. The American authors whose poems were most widely set to music were Longfellow and Whittier. Of great rarity is a set of 6 songs to the poetry of Bret Harte. There are 13 songs from a musical comedy with lyrics by O. Henry, probably his only venture into this field. << Back \| Next >>

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