Piano and voice (solo and SATB chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.4712 Composed by Paul Dresser. Prisoners, Comfort, Liberty, Death, Grief. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.4712). The Convict and the Bird. Song and Chorus. By Paul Dresser. Published 1888 by Willis Woodward & Co. in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Prisoners, Comfort, Liberty, Death, Grief. First line reads A convict sat in a prison cell, doom'd all the days of his life.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe 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Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.
