Piano and voice - Digital Download
SKU: LV.5651
Composed by Lionel Monckton & Ivan Caryll. African Americans, Dialects, Monsters, Children. Lester S. Levy Collection. 8 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.5651).
The Runaway Girl. New Musical Play. The Piccaninnies. Lyrics by Aubrey Hopwood and Harry Greenbank. Music by Lionel Monckton and Ivan Caryll. Published 1898 by Boosey & Co., 9 East Seventeenth Street in New York. Composition of abab with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include African Americans, Dialects, Monsters, Children. First line reads When de twilight's fallin' an' de stars a-peepin' out..
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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.
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