SKU: LV.4953

The Old Village Blacksmith Shop. Song and Chorus. Composed by Wm. J. Allen. Published 1883 by Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 385 Sixth Avenue in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Arms, Hammers, Horseshoes, Birds, Flowers, Occupations, Nostalgia. First line reads Now some love to visit far distant lands..

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WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.23509

The Reformed Blacksmith. Joseph Higgins, Rome, N.Y. Song and Chorus. Words by John Piper. Music by W. Apmadoc. Published 1880 by White, Smith & Company, 516 Washington St. in Boston. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Barns--interiors, Horses, Stables, Alcoholic beverages, Temperance, Happiness. First line reads I'm a temp'rance man, I'm a temp'rance man..

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WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.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: LV.10436

Mr. Blackman. March Two-Step. by Arthur Pryor. Published 1904 by Whitney Warner Pub. Co. in Detroit. Composition of sectional with piano instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Silhouettes, Smoking (tobacco), African Americans, Ethnic stereotypes.

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: A0.1373864

Black Coffee is a song with music by Sonny Burke and words by Paul Francis Webster. The song was published in 1948.
It's first two measures are nearly identical to Mary Lou Williams' 1938 piece What's Your Story Morning Glory, and both songs share melodic motifs drawn from blues (including a strong melodic emphasis on the flat third and flat seventh intervals, known as blue notes). Williams felt that Burke and Webster plagiarized her composition, and reportedly considered taking legal action over the matter. The two songs have significant melodic and rhythmic differences after the first two measures of their respective 'A' sections, and Black Coffee has a unique bridge section that has no parallel in Morning Glory. However, during her piano solo, Williams plays both the identical feel and harmonies that appear on Black Coffee, with dominant chords moving up and down by half steps in lieu of staying on the tonic chord. While not a carbon copy, Burke and Webster arguably picked sections of What's Your Story Morning Glory to string together to create a new song. Coincidentally, jazz trumpeter Paul Webster (no relation to lyricist Paul Francis Webster) was given co-writer credit for Morning Glory by Williams when she published her song in 1938.

My dear friend, Sam Harrill, has added his percussion magic some years later, and I am re-posting this for greater effect. Nothing in the brass parts changed. Thank you, Sam!

SKU: A0.1081510

My Elegy brings a musical blessing for both the Black and Blue communities as a musical prayer for peace and understand between the two groups. Elegy was written as a Trumpet sonata a few decades ago for the outstanding trumpet player Ralph Dudgeon. He has performed it often and the new Elegy Trio version was performed by Eastfield College faculty member Oscar Passley. It begins and ends with a peaceful hymn-like melody echoed in the trumpet and cello. The middle section portrays a battle scene with wild rhythm clashes.