Piano and voice (solo and 4-part chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.3823 Composed by H. S. Thompson. Courtship, Love, Accidents, Drowning, Intoxication, Alcoholic beverages, Death, Afro-Americans, Dialects, Caricatures. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.3823). Down by the River Lived a Maiden. Song and Chorus. By H.S. Thompson. Published 1863 by Oliver Ditson & Co., 277 Washington St. in Boston. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and four-part chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Courtship, Love, Accidents, Drowning, Intoxication, Alcoholic beverages, Death, Afro-Americans, Dialects, Caricatures. First line reads Down by the river there lived a maiden, in a cottage built just seven by nine.. 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Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.
