Piano and voice - Digital Download

SKU: LV.18515

Composed by J.P. Skelly. Birds, Flowers, Courtship & love, Fathers & children, Elopement. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.18515).

A Quiet Little Game. Music by J.P. Skelly. Written By Gus Williams. Published 1882 by P.R. McCargo & Co. in Boston. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Birds, Flowers, Courtship & love, Fathers & children, Elopement. First line reads I loved a lady nice and sweet, I thought her quite a queen..

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WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.561

Composed by J.P. Skelly. Infants, Grief, Death, Heaven. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.561).

Baby's Empty Cradle. Song and Chorus. The Best Selling Song in America. Words by George Cooper. Music by J.P. Skelly. Published 1881 by R.A. Saalfield, 12 Bible House, Astor Place (Opposite Cooper Union) in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Infants, Grief, Death, Heaven. First line reads Baby's gone, the cradle's empty! Home is sad and empty now..

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WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.