Piano and voice (solo and SATB chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.3579 Composed by G. Friedrich Wurzel. African Americans, Dialects, Slavery, Fathers & children, Spouses, Grief, Death, Heaven. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.3579). They've Sold Me Down the River. The Negro Father's Lament. Song and Chorus. Composed by G. Friedrich Wurzel. Published 1853 by William Hall & Son, 239 Broadway in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include African Americans, Dialects, Slavery, Fathers & children, Spouses, Grief, Death, Heaven. First line reads They've sold me down the river, and I must parted be.. 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Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.
