SKU: A0.924285

Capture your audience with a musical surprise.  This piece recollects  musical life in the American colonies and pictures harpsichord playing at Mount Vernon.
 Maggie Lauder is a catchy, lively Scottish tune, with a humorous set of verses about Maggie's dancing to the piping of a famous Scot bagpiper.
It was a very popular tune for singing or dancing in the American colonies. In fact, the tune took on a new name, Cornwallis Burgoynd, with new words to poke fun at the defeated British general Cornwallis after his troops surrendered to end the American Revolution.
    As a harpsichord piece, with variations, it was published by Scots musician Robert Bremner.  The family of George Washington at Mount Vernon owned this music, which was probably played by his granddaughter Nelly Custis.    New variations have been added.

 An interesting addition to any harpsichord program, esp. on patriotic occasions.  4 pp.  About 4 min.
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SKU: LV.9842

Paroquet Polka. Composed by George R. Poulton. Published 1866 by Alex Barnes, Corinthian Hall Music Store in Rochester, N.Y. Composition of sectional with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Parakeets, Birds.

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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