Piano and voice (solo and 4-part chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.13793 Composed by E. P. Christy. African Americans, Portraits, Musical instruments, Dancing, Couples, Monkeys, Slave trade, Courtship & love, Marriage proposals, Banjos, Sleeping, Dreaming, Ethnic stereotypes, Dialects. Lester S. Levy Collection. 6 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.13793). Ethiopian Melodies. Julius' Bride [contains reference to the song Jennie Git Your Hoe Cake Done]. Arranged & Partly Composed By E.P. Christy. Published 1848 by William Vanderbeek, 479 Broadway in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and 4-part chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include African Americans, Portraits, Musical instruments, Dancing, Couples, Monkeys, Slave trade, Courtship & love, Marriage proposals, Banjos, Sleeping, Dreaming, Ethnic stereotypes, Dialects. First line reads When I liv'd way down in ole Virginia, I bought a culored [sic] gal for a guinea.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe 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Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.
