SKU: LV.1112

Ellen Aureen. A New Song for the Piano Forte or Harp. Written by the Author of The Captive to his Bird. Composed by J. Monro. Published [n.d.] by J. Siegling at his Musical Warehouse, 69 Broad St. in Charleston. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice; harp instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Fathers & children, Love, Nursing, Accidents. First line reads O cold was the climate and cheerless the moore, where Ellen had bloom'd till sixteen..

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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SKU: A0.803739

One of the most popular hymns of all times, the poem, What A Friend We Have in Jesus, was a poem written by Joseph Scriven in 1855. He sent it from Canada to his Mother in Ireland. In 1868, American Charles Converse, an attorney and composer of hymns, came across Scriven’s poem and set the words to music, publishing it in a hymnal.

SKU: A0.797438

Originally a piano piece, part of a Suite Burlesque, this piece became familiar to many of us as the theme from the weekly tv show, Alfred Hitchcock Presents. It is a mock funeral march, with a contrasting heroic middle section. The only difficulty is at the end: originally too chromatic altogether, it has been rearranged, but it includes some quick and precise pedalling: C-sharp-natural-flat. This can best be managed by a staccato technique followed by a pedal slide, all in keeping with the character of the piece.