Piano and voice - Digital Download
SKU: LV.4050
Composed by William Cumming. Mothers & children, Depression, Comfort, Love, Courage, Death. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.4050).
Thou Wouldst Call Me Back From the Echoless Shore. A Mother's Reply to the Popular Ballad Rock Me To Sleep. Music by William Cumming. Published 1862 by A.C. Peters & Bro. in Cincinnati. Composition of strophic with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Mothers & children, Depression, Comfort, Love, Courage, Death. First line reads My child! oh my child! thou art weary tonight..
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.
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