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 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 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 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.

Composed by J.P. Skelly. Porches, Dwellings, Children, Windows, Birdcages, Rocking chairs, Dolls, Love, Families, Birds, Elves, Fairies. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.615). - - - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Composed by S. Nelson. Doors & doorways, Families, Dwellings, Birdcages, Castles & palaces, Bodies of water, Seasons, Spring, Love. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.3070). - - - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Composed by Will. S. Hays. Parlors, Keyboard instruments, Families, Domestic life, Children playing, Birdcages, Advertisements, Inventions. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.18470). - - - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Composed by Henry Bollman. Windows, Birdcages, Ships, Drapery, Correspondence, Love, Courtship. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.4126). - - - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Composed by Eliza Cook, & Stephen Glover. Birds, Birdcages, Hills, Bodies of water, Seasons, Spring, Symbols, Nostalgia, Sadness. Lester S. Levy Collection. 3 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.3325). - - - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries

Composed by Harry Von Tilzer (1872-1946). For piano and voice. Upper classes, Wealth, Marriage, Sadness, Time, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries