Piano and voice - Digital Download
SKU: LV.11868
Composed by George Lindley. Fathers & children, Rowboats, Lifeboats, Marine accidents, Heroes, Rescues. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.11868).
Grace Darling, or, The Wreckiers Daughter [The heroic conduct of Grace Horsley Darling, who with her Father rescued nine Persons from the wreck of the Forfarshire Steamer has furnished the subject of this Ballad. . . ]. Written and Composed by George Lindley. Published [n.d.] by John F. Nunns, 184 Chesnut Street in Philadelphia. Composition of strophic with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Fathers & children, Rowboats, Lifeboats, Marine accidents, Heroes, Rescues. First line reads Oh! Father lov'd, the Storm is raging, and cold and heavy the night mist falls..
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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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