Piano and voice - Digital Download
SKU: LV.19504
Composed by F.B. Poets, Storytelling, Card games, Caricatures, China, Fighting, Deceit. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.19504).
The Heathen Chinee. Song & Chorus. Words by Bret Harte. Music by F.B. Published 1870 by Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington St. in Boston. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Poets, Storytelling, Card games, Caricatures, China, Fighting, Deceit. First line reads Which I wish to remark And my language is plain That for ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain..
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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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