Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1180571

Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Chamber,Contemporary. Score. 44 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #780475. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.1180571).

John Cage and I share the same birthday: September 5th. He was born in 1912 and my birth year is 1945. There must be some cosmological link between us because he has always intrigued me - philosophically and musically. 

Recently I was in my colleague Prof. Jeremiah McGrann's office waiting for him to join me for a martini lunch after a day of teaching. I noticed on his desk a hardcover copy of John Cage I-VI. I asked what it was and he said it is John Cage's Charles Elliot Norton Lecture he gave at Harvard University in 1988-89. I looked inside and there were these mesostics. Very sparsely distributed on each page, and it looked fascinating, like some hieroglyphic art. I was immediately intrigued by it and thought right on the spot that I should buy a copy and maybe create a song cycle from the texts. 

Upon further research, I found out that John Cage compiled the content for his lecture using excerpts from works by Thoreau, Emerson, Wittgenstein, McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, plus passages from The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. He then created the final text for his lecture by using chance operations with the assistance of a computer program that he created. 

And so I did the unthinkable, create a song cycle of words that has no meaning nor narrative in the traditional sense. Quoting John Cage: I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. 

John Cage I-VI (2023) is in six movements, scored for soprano and piano.

Piano,Vocal,Voice - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1180574

Composed by Thomas Oboe Lee. 20th Century,Chamber,Contemporary. Score. 24 pages. Thomas Oboe Lee #780478. Published by Thomas Oboe Lee (A0.1180574).

John Cage and I share the same birthday: September 5th. He was born in 1912 and my birth year is 1945. There must be some cosmological link between us because he has always intrigued me - philosophically and musically. 

Recently I was in my colleague Prof. Jeremiah McGrann's office waiting for him to join me for a martini lunch after a day of teaching. I noticed on his desk a hardcover copy of John Cage I-VI. I asked what it was and he said it is John Cage's Charles Elliot Norton Lecture he gave at Harvard University in 1988-89. I looked inside and there were these mesostics. Very sparsely distributed on each page, and it looked fascinating, like some hieroglyphic art. I was immediately intrigued by it and thought right on the spot that I should buy a copy and maybe create a song cycle from the texts. 

Upon further research, I found out that John Cage compiled the content for his lecture using excerpts from works by Thoreau, Emerson, Wittgenstein, McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller, plus passages from The Wall Street Journal, The Christian Science Monitor and The New York Times. He then created the final text for his lecture by using chance operations with the assistance of a computer program that he created. 

And so I did the unthinkable, create a song cycle of words that has no meaning nor narrative in the traditional sense. Quoting John Cage: I have nothing to say, I am saying it, and that is poetry. 

John Cage I-VI (2023) is in six movements, scored for soprano and piano.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1252990

By Bill Whitley. By Bill Whitley. Arranged by Bill Whitley. 20th Century,21st Century,Classical,Contemporary. Score. 10 pages. Musica Semplice #846743. Published by Musica Semplice (A0.1252990).

In the spirit of Cage's In a Landscape and composed with the aid of a six-sided die, Labyrinth Walk is ambient and meditative as the name suggests.  

This is many ways was my first 'mature' work in the sense that every work that came later was focused on the same theme of meditative tools...ambient and atmospheric textures, etc. It really all began with 'Labyrinth Walk' - Bill Whitley.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1359879

By Bing Crosby. By Harry Von Tilzer. Arranged by Martyn Clive Johnson (aka Martycli Piano Guy). 20th Century,Comedy,Folk,Jazz,Ragtime. Score. 7 pages. Martyn Johnson #944360. Published by Martyn Johnson (A0.1359879).

This is a very old waltz from 1900. It would have been performed in Vaudeville and English Music Hall. I take it through the two keys of Bb major and Cb major. Cb major has 7 flats but is not so hard as you might think as it's easy to remember to flatten every note instead of having to remember which notes to flatten! 
I interweave arpeggios between the melody notes and it therefore has a very full sound to it. It is sort of a Stride waltz in that the bass is usually, with some variations, followed by two chords on each beat.
I don't notate fingering, pedals or dynamics as I leave the interpretation up to the individual pianist and in any event no two piano teachers ever agree on these things.
Please note this is a piano solo and I doesn't include notation for the other instruments on my YouTube upload, strings, drums, bass guitar. I write all my music as piano solos first and they sound perfectly complete as such.
I hope you have as much fun learning it as I did arranging it.

Choral Choir (TTBB) - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.871592

Composed by E. Ray Goetz John Gilroy. Arranged by Walter Latzko. Traditional. Octavo. 5 pages. Latzko Muzic #5297959. Published by Latzko Muzic (A0.871592).

This a 1916 ballad as performed by the Buffalo Bills

Piano and voice - Digital Download

SKU: LV.3895

Composed by Gustav Holzel. Portraits, Windows, Birdcages, Occupations, Clocks & watches, Flowers, Love, Marriage. Lester S. Levy Collection. 6 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.3895).

The Village Blacksmith's Bride [English and German]. Composed by Gustav Holzel. Published 1863 by Beer & Schirmer, 701 Broadway in New York. Composition of sectional with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Windows, Birdcages, Occupations, Clocks & watches, Flowers, Love, Marriage. First line reads My sweetheart is the village smith, and O, I love him so!..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Piano - Digital Download

SKU: LV.9980

Composed by Charles Kinkel. Portraits, Windows, Bird cages, Homing pigeons, Drapery, Correspondence. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.9980).

Messenger of Love. Love's Response. Polka. By Charles Kinkel. Published 1871 by J.L. Peters in New York. Composition of through-composed with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Windows, Bird cages, Homing pigeons, Drapery, Correspondence.

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Piano and voice - Digital Download

SKU: LV.788

Composed by Alice Hawthorne. Writing desks, Birdcages, Families, Children, Pets, Dogs, Cats, Toys, Children's furniture, Domestic life, Love. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.788).

The Pet of the Cradle. By Alice Hawthorne. Published 1855 by Lee & Walker in Philadelphia. Composition of strophic with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Writing desks, Birdcages, Families, Children, Pets, Dogs, Cats, Toys, Children's furniture, Domestic life, Love. First line reads How sweet are the joys of a home that we prize..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Piano and voice - Digital Download

SKU: LV.838

Composed by Gustave H. Kline. Fathers & children, Birdcages, Guitars, Deer, Families, Mothers & children, Gifts. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.838).

Charles A. Gardner's Song. Shut Your Eyes Tightly and Open Your Mouth. Composed by Gustave H. Kline. Published 1890 by Meyer & Brother, 108 E. Washington St. in Chicago. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Fathers & children, Birdcages, Guitars, Deer, Families, Mothers & children, Gifts. First line reads Listen, my little one, a story I'll tell, 'bout a small Dicky-bird..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Piano - Digital Download

SKU: LV.22935

Caricatures, Jefferson Davis, Cages, Military prisons, Forts & fortifications, Guards, Eagles, Civil War--Union. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.22935).

The Last Ditch Polka. D'Accacia. Published 1865 by Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington St. in Boston. Composition of da capo with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Caricatures, Jefferson Davis, Cages, Military prisons, Forts & fortifications, Guards, Eagles, Civil War--Union.

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Piano and voice (solo and SATB chorus) - Digital Download

SKU: LV.5067

Composed by F. Lavarnie. Portraits, Couples, Birds, Birdcages, Caricatures--Asia, Courtship, Love, Keepsakes. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.5067).

Popular Songs and Ballads. Tender Loving Eyes of Blue. Song and Chorus. By F. Lavarnie. Published 1884 by Harding's Music Office, No. 229 Bowery (Opposite Prince Street) in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Couples, Birds, Birdcages, Caricatures--Asia, Courtship, Love, Keepsakes. First line reads Why do I keep within my heart, the image of a once-loved face..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Piano and voice - Digital Download

SKU: LV.14317

Arranged by Samuel Owen. Families, Dwellings--exterior, Birdcages, Flowers, Domestic life, Contentment, Travel. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.14317).

Jenny Lind's Home Sweet Home. Arranged by Samuel Owen. Published 1854 by Firth, Pond & Co., 1 Franklin Sqr. in New York. Composition of strophic with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Families, Dwellings--exterior, Birdcages, Flowers, Domestic life, Contentment, Travel. First line reads 'Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Piano and voice (solo and SATB chorus) - Digital Download

SKU: LV.11731

Composed by G.W. Brown. Marine accidents, Fires, Parlors, Birdcages, Fireplaces, Clocks & watches, Death, Mothers & children, Heaven. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.11731).

Lost on the Steamer Stonewall. Mamma! Why Don't Papa Come Home. Words by J. Murphy. Music by G.W. Brown. Published 1869 by Balmer & Weber, No. 206 Fifth Street in St. Louis. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Marine accidents, Fires, Parlors, Birdcages, Fireplaces, Clocks & watches, Death, Mothers & children, Heaven. First line reads Mamma! why don't Papa come home? why does he stay away?..

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Piano - Digital Download

SKU: LV.19251

Composed by Charles D. Crandall. Railroads, Piers & wharves, Railroad stations, Crowds, Dogs, Birdcages, Boats, Transportation. Lester S. Levy Collection. 6 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.19251).

The Jolly Gateman Lancers. Composed by Charles D. Crandall. Published 1889 by Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 385 Sixth Avenue in New York. Composition of five da capo marches with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Railroads, Piers & wharves, Railroad stations, Crowds, Dogs, Birdcages, Boats, Transportation.

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.

Piano - Digital Download

SKU: LV.444

Composed by T. H. Hinton. Birdcages. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.444).

Birdie's First Chirp. Galop For Little Fingers. By T.H. Hinton. Published 1864 by Wm. A. Pond & Co., 547 Braodway in New York. Composition of da capo with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Birdcages.

About The Lester S. Levy Collection

The Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.

WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.