SKU: LV.598

The Death of Little Joe. Song & Chorus. Music Composed By V.E. Marston. Published 1866 by G. Andre & Co., 1104 Chestnut St. in Philadelphia. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Children, Grief, Pets, Heaven, Mothers & children. First line reads What will the birds do, mother, this Spring?..

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WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.

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WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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

SKU: LV.19379

I'd Like to Be a Bird and Fly to Birdie. Words and Music by Boyle Woolfolk. Published 1903 by Howley, Haviland, Dresser, The House on Broadway at 1260 to 1266 in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Railroads, Railroad tracks, Fences, Luggage, Portraits, Courtship & love, Travel, Money, Poor persons. First line reads My sweetheart left me late last week to join a burlesque show..

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.

SKU: LV.18644

E.W. Locke's Songs. No.2. Father is Coming To Night. Written and Composed by E.W. Locke. Published 1873 by G.D. Russell & Company, 126 Tremont, opp. Park St. in Boston. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Fathers & children, Homecomings, Gifts, Time. First line reads O, here is a letter for you, mother, You'll think it was brought by a 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.

SKU: LV.19683

Song of the Thrush. I Wander in the Woods. Words by Heinrich Heine. Translated C.G. Leland. Music by E.W.B. Published 1867 by Chas. W. Harris, 3 & 4 Wotkyns Block in Troy, N.Y. Composition of strophic with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Poets, Forests, Birds--symbols, Courtship & love, Distress. First line reads I wander in the woods and weep, The thrush sits on the spray..

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.

SKU: A0.1344133

From the piano book, The Own Says Hoo by William Suit for mid to upper elementary students. Learning good technique at the piano should be a fun experience. These ten songs are from the original vocal book, “The Owl Says Hoo� They have been rewritten as piano solos that are accessible to mid and late elementary students. Also included are the lyrics so that adventurous students can sing along while they are playing. These songs can be used to establish confidence in finger placement and movement of the hand positions. Some of them such as, “Frozen Pine Cone� and “Shooting Star� reinforce the use of the C scale. The chromatic scale is explored in “Hummingbird� while ocatve jumps are covered in the haunting melody of “Snowy Owl.� ©2023 William Suit.

SKU: 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.

SKU: A0.1344142

From the piano book, The Own Says Hoo by William Suit for mid to upper elementary students. Learning good technique at the piano should be a fun experience. These ten songs are from the original vocal book, “The Owl Says Hoo� They have been rewritten as piano solos that are accessible to mid and late elementary students. Also included are the lyrics so that adventurous students can sing along while they are playing. These songs can be used to establish confidence in finger placement and movement of the hand positions. Some of them such as, “Frozen Pine Cone� and “Shooting Star� reinforce the use of the C scale. The chromatic scale is explored in “Hummingbird� while ocatve jumps are covered in the haunting melody of “Snowy Owl.� ©2023 William Suit.

SKU: LV.18818

Six New Songs and Ballads. No.3. The Musical Box. Written By Thomas Moore, Esqre.; Composed by John Barnett. Published [n.d.] by Atwill's Music Saloon, 201 Broadway in New York. Composition of strophic with refrain and musical interlude (representing music box) with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Singers, Lutes, Couples, Mountains, Rabbits, Dwellings, Birds, Poets, Symbols. First line reads Look here said Rose with laughing eyes, Within this box, by magic lid First line of refrain Then hark, how seet and blithe his song [varies slightly with each verse]..

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.

SKU: LV.23125

Popular Song and Chorus Ad Lib. Aura Lea, or, The Maid With Golden Hair. Arrnaged by Joseph Kelp. Published [n.d.] by Lithographed and Published by Geo. Dunn & Compy. in Richmond, VA. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Civil war--Confederate, Courtship, Love. First line reads When the blackbird in the Spring, 'neath the willow tree..

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.

SKU: A0.1314982

Inspired by the Victorian and Romantic poetry of Christina Rossetti, Anne Bronte, Thomas Hood and Thomas Beddoes, the Five songs form a cycle of joy, sadness, love, death and exultation.   The music is scored in two versions: Normal Vocal Range and Wide Vocal Range.

1. A Birthday 
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) 

My heart is like a singing bird 
Whose nest is in a watered shoot; 
My heart is like an apple-tree 
Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit; 
My heart is like a rainbow shell 
That paddles in a halcyon sea; 
My heart is gladder than all these 
Because my love is come to me. 
Raise me a dais of silk and down; 
Hang it with vair and purple dyes; 
Carve it in doves and pomegranates, 
And peacocks with a hundred eyes; 
Work it in gold and silver grapes, 
In leaves and silver fleurs-de-lys; 
Because the birthday of my life 
Is come, my love is come to me. 

2. Echo 
Christina Rossetti

Come to me in the silence of the night; 
Come in the speaking silence of a dream; 
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright 
As sunlight on a stream; 
Come back in tears, 
Oh memory, hope, love of finished years. 
Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter sweet, 
Whose wakening should have been in Paradise, 
Where souls brimfull of love abide and meet; 
Where thirsting longing eyes 
Watch the slow door 
That opening, letting in, lets out no more. 
Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live 
My very life again though cold in death - 
Come back to me in dreams, that I may give 
Pulse for pulse, breath for breath: 
Speak low, lean low, 
As long ago, my love, how long ago. 

3. There is dew...�
Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

There is dew for the flowret 
And honey for the bee, 
And bowers for the wild bird, 
And love for you and me. 
There are tears for the many 
And pleasures for the few; 
But let the world pass on, dear, 
There's love for me and you. 


4. We do lie beneath the grass...�
Thomas Beddoes (1803-1849) 

We do lie beneath the grass 
In the moonlight, in the shade 
Of the yew-tree. 
They that pass Hear us not. 
We are afraid 
They would envy our delight, in our graves by glow-worm night. 
Come follow us, and smile as we; 
We sail to the rock in the ancient waves, 
Where the snow falls by thousands into the sea, 
And the drowned and the shipwrecked have happy graves.  

5. My soul is awakened...� 
Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

My soul is awakened, my spirit is soaring 
And carried aloft on the wings of the breeze, 
For above and around me the wild wind is roaring 
Arousing to rapture the earth and the seas. 
The long withered grass in the sunshine is glancing, 
The bare trees are tossing their branches on high, 
The dead leaves beneath them are merrily dancing 
The white clouds are scudding across the blue sky. 
I wish I could see how the ocean is lashing 
The foam of its billows to whirlwinds of spray, 
I wish I could see how its proud waves are dashing, 
And hear the wild roar of their thunder today.