Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.18340 Composed by J. F. Poole. Humorous pictures, Caricatures, Cartoons, Middle East, Courtship & love, Campaigns & battles, Narcotics, Twins, Deceit, Fathers & children, Beatings, Law & legal affairs, Judicial proceedings. Lester S. Levy Collection. 5 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.18340). The Great Comic Songs. The Fellow That Looks Like Me. J.F. Poole. Published 1866 by Frederick Blume, 1125 Broadway in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Humorous pictures, Caricatures, Cartoons, Middle East, Courtship & love, Campaigns & battles, Narcotics, Twins, Deceit, Fathers & children, Beatings, Law & legal affairs, Judicial procedings. First line reads In sad despair I wander, My heart is fill'd with woe.. 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Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.

Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.18377 Composed by G.W. Hunt. Arranged by M. Hobson. Humorous pictures, Caricatures, Cartoons, Middle East, Courtship & love, Campaigns & battles, Narcotics, Marriage proposals, Fathers & children, Weddings. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.18377). Collection of Blume's Comic Songs. It's Funny When You Feel That Way. Written and Composed by G.W. Hunt. Arranged by M. Hobson. Published 1856 by Frederick Blume, 1125 Broadway in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Humorous pictures, Caricatures, Cartoons, Middle East, Courtship & love, Campaigns & battles, Narcotics, Marriage proposals, Fathers & children, Weddings. First line reads I shan't forget how queer I felt, When first I fell in love.. 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.

Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.987080 Composed by Eric Paul Nolte. Contemporary. Score. 12 pages. Eric Paul Nolte #566749. Published by Eric Paul Nolte (A0.987080). This piece is one of an album of my contemporary classical compositions. Yes, I too wince at offering you something saddled with this oxymoron--contemporary classical--but this phrase is now an irresistible, commercially recognized category defying any principled protest from the ranks of wounded musicological curmudgeons like me.  The style here employs a tonal palette that celebrates the more or less common practice of composers from J. S. Bach to Ravel, Prokofiev, and the 20th century American songbook.  You will see that I reject Arnold Schoenberg's assertion that by 1910 tonality had exhausted itself, and needed to be reinvented according to an aesthetics that dismiss our scales and harmonies as purely arbitrary human conventions with no basis in nature. On the contrary, I believe that we are endowed by our nature to respond emotionally to our traditional materials of music in the same way as nature equips us to respond to the taste of food and drink. We differ in our taste for savory, sweet, and sour, but it is wrong to say that our very capacity to taste is a merely cultural convention. There is biology, and then physics too! By the same standard, it can't be true that one person's taste for arsenic is as valid as another's taste for beer or kumquats. The major triad is a force of nature, like the sun, wind, and rain! I also like big fat juicy 13 chords, and contrapuntal weaving of melody! I believe the purpose of music is to sway us emotionally, and if it can uplift us too, so much the better! While I am not ashamed to write a bare triad, unadorned by chromatic alterations (much less by clusters of chord collisions) I have nevertheless employed much complicated harmony. Moreover, some passages are written in a spiky harmony that might be analyzed as bitonal, as at the meno mosso section, beginning at measure 112, where the mood I wanted to set inspired me to write the theme in C minor while the left hand climbs up from the bottom of the keyboard in a widely spaced, D-flat 13 arpeggio.  I have composed these pieces with the skills of intermediate to early-advanced pianists in mind. This piece demands the ability to play some counterpoint between two voices in one hand. There is a section that requires one to play moderately fast octaves, but nothing as difficult as the G minor Prelude of Chopin (to say nothing of his harrowing octave Etude from Opus 25!) While there are many polyrhythmic passages, none is more complicated than two-against-three notes. All said, there is nothing here to make your hands (or, I dare say, your ears) bleed. The performing time is around nine minutes and a breath or three. I have a number of videos posted on YouTube.com, I have a website under construction, ericpaulnolte.com, and, since 2011, an occasional blog of my ravings on life, love, and the cosmos, at ericpaulnolte.blogspot.com. You may write me at nolte0125@gmail.com.

Choral Choir (SA) - Digital Download SKU: A0.561597 Composed by Charles Dickens, Samuel Stokes, William C. Dix, and William Morris. Arranged by SamuelStokesMusic.com. Christian,Christmas,Contemporary,Hip-Hop,Musical/Show. Octavo. 47 pages. SamuelStokesMusic.com #3567955. Published by SamuelStokesMusic.com (A0.561597). EBENEZER is a one-act musical based on A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The music is a blend of hip-hop and traditional Christmas carols. The adaptation is suitable for performance by adults or teens alike. Four of the lead roles take on the greatest musical challenge with their rap numbers, but the choir parts are more generally accessible as they are based on familiar carols, making the musical appropriate for colleges, high schools, middle schools, church groups, and community theatre groups.This libretto contains the full play script and vocal sheet music.  Purchase of this libretto kit entitles the purchaser to reproduce the appropriate number of copies for the cast and crew of the production.  Please note that royalties must also be paid for each performance (visit https://www.SamuelStokesMusic.com for royalty information).  The musical is scored for 2-part choir and rap soloists with MP3 accompaniment tracks (available separately). If desired, the musical can also be performed with unison choir singing the melody only. There is the also the optional opportunity for two violins to perform onstage and for a percussionist to play the chimes offstage (MP3 tracks are also available for these underscoring cues).The musical demo available on this page is an excerpt from the number Jacob Marley - O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, in which Ebenezer Scrooge's former partner returns from the dead to warn him that he must change his ways or suffer the fate of eternally roaming the earth in chains. There is also a teaser video of this musical number at: https://youtu.be/4nPryAZUnDYNote on printing: this libretto has been formatted with pages intentionally left blank, so that it can be printed properly on the front and back of the paper. Also, there are one-inch margins on the left and right for ease of binding into folders or binders.

Bells,Boomwhackers,Glockenspiel,Handbell,Handchime,Orff Instrument,Ukulele,Voice,Xylophone - Level 2 - Digital Download SKU: A0.565377 By Sharon Wilson. By Dorothy A. Thrupp, Franklin L. Sheppard, George Frederick Root, Isaac Watts, John Hatton, Judson W. Van DeVenter, Lowell Mason, Maltbie D. Babcock, Ray Palmer, Robert Lowry, Robert Robinson, Various, William B. Bradbury, Winfield S. Weeden, and etc. Arranged by Sharon Wilson and Sharon Wilson Music. Children,Folk,Instructional,Sacred,Traditional. 111 pages. Sharon Wilson #4281841. Published by Sharon Wilson (A0.565377). This collection contains 12 hymns arranged for 2-part ensembles using only 8-note instruments. Each song in this collection is notated for Handbells on one part and Boomwhackers® on a second part. For each song, there is a combined score with both parts on a grand staff plus a separate 1-staff score for each individual part. A note and chord reference chart is also provided for each song.This set of scores uses colored noteheads corresponding to the Boomwhackers® color scheme. If you have a set of bells or tubes with a different color scheme, Chroma-Notes Stick Ons can be purchased and applied so the instruments match the Boomwhackers® color scheme. This set of scores is also available (separate purchase) in black and white which will print clearer if you do not have access to a color printer.Several of these arrangements include two verses with a first easy verse followed by an intermediate second verse. For the songs with two verses, an optional ending is provided for the first verse or it can be skipped to perform the two verses together. Only filled noteheads (quarter and eighth notes) are used so the notes are full color and easier to see (this does not indicate the bells need to be silenced immediately before the next beat). Also, only quarter rests are used to help visualize the number of beats per measure. Lyrics and chord names are provided as well to aid in the learning and teaching of these songs. The number of ringers and whackers needed will vary depending on the skill level of the participants. For more advanced players, each person could be assigned two or three notes. For beginners, it is best to assign one note to each person. Note assignment suggestions are included for each song.Other suggestions and uses: * have both parts played by bells or both parts played using only Boomwhackers®    * form a choir using multiple sets of bells and/or Boomwhackers®* use as part of the music education for children at school, home, or church* these colorful, inexpensive instruments can be enjoyed by all ages and add a fun, unique element to activities and programs: senior centers, family reunions, church retreats, home school groups, or children's ministriesEach of the 12 hymn arrangements is also available separately with accompanying preview pages and audio samples. Titles included in this collection:All Creatures of Our God and KingCome, Thou Fount of Every BlessingFather, Lead Me Day by DayGod Leads Us AlongHow Can I Keep from Singing?I Surrender AllJesus Shall ReignMorning PraiseMy Faith Looks Up to TheeSavior, Like a Shepherd Lead UsThis Is My Father's WorldWhen He Cometh Boomwhackers® is a registered trademark of Rhythm Band Instrument, LLC. Used by permission. Visit Sharon Wilson's website: www.SharonWilsonMusic.comSubscribe to her YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/user/SharonWilsonMusic

Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.18495 Composed by Henry Clay Work. Cooking, African Americans, Couples, Soldiers, Distress, Battlefields, Dwellings--logs, Courtship & love, Fathers & children, Homecomings, Families. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.18495). Work's Popular Songs & Ballads. Watching For Pa. Song and Chorus. Words and Music by Henry C. Work. Published 1863 by Root & Cady in Chicago. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Cooking, African Americans, Couples, Soldiers, Distress, Battlefields, Dwellings--logs, Courtship & love, Fathers & children, Homecomings, Families. First line reads Three little forms in the twilight gray, Scanning the shadows across the way.. 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.

Piano and voice (solo and SATB chorus) - Digital Download SKU: LV.833 Composed by Eastburn. Fathers & children, Couples, Courtship, Love, Deathbeds, Sick children, Drapery, Families, Religion. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.833). Songs of Welcome. Send For Mother, Birdie's Dying. Words by Geo. Cooper. Music Composed by Eastburn. Published 1874 by White, Smith & Company in Boston. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and satb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Fathers & children, Couples, Courtship, Love, Deathbeds, Sick children, Drapery, Families, Religion. First line reads Come and lift me from my pillow, weak and weary I have grown.. 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.

Piano - Level 1 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1259588 By Fats Domino. By Al Lewis, Larry Stock, and Vincent Rose. Arranged by DecPlay Ltd. Contemporary,Folk,Pop,Rock,Standards. DecPlay Piano. 2 pages. DecPlay Ltd #852895. Published by DecPlay Ltd (A0.1259588). You have great taste - this is a great song! If you’re not a DecPlay student yet, you might be wondering why the song sheet isn’t using traditional notation or chord names …..This patented form of song sheet from DecPlay® enables songs to be learnt much quicker and more easily than using traditional notation or guitar chords. The simple numbers, colours and patterns method enables rapid results on piano.The same song sheet enables beginner and advanced playing styles, in any musical key.For more details and a FREE video lesson go to www.DecPlay.com(This type of sheet music is known as piano tabs or PianoTabz and includes lyrics, melody and chords.).

Bass Voice,Drums,Guitar,Rhythm Instrument - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1378966 Composed by John Newton/ Horatio Spafford (1773, 1873). Arranged by Deborah Johnson. Christian,Easter,Praise & Worship,Sacred,Spiritual. Accompaniment. Duration 232. Deborah Johnson #963687. Published by Deborah Johnson (A0.1378966). Deborah Johnson's arrangement of Amazing Grace/It is Well With my Soul offers a delightful medley that blends these beloved hymns seamlessly. Accompanied by piano and a unison chorus vocalizing oohs and ahs, this instrumental rendition promises to evoke cherished memories and inspire heartfelt worship. The contemporary folk-pop style infuses the medley with freshness, featuring challenging piano arpeggios and key changes throughout. With a medium level of difficulty, this arrangement is versatile and can be performed with or without vocals. This is the accompaniment MP3 without piano or vocals. Additionally, accompaniment MP3 track is available, without piano accompaniment and including vocals. Downloadable sheet music also available.Up for a GRAMMY Award, My Father’s Favorite Hymns album includes this as well as other contemporary arrangements of hymns, available https://DJWorksMusic.com/products by Deborah Johnson. There is also a beautiful spiral-bound devotional guide available with the amazing stories and life principles gained from these timeless classics, as well as all the music arrangements in one spiral-bound volume. Both are available for direct shipping. Amazing Grace by John Newton (1773) is one of the most recognized hymns in the world, and is often thought of as a folk song. It was written to illustrate a sermon and was fairly obscure until the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th Century. The tune is to New Britain and it is performed about 10 million times annually. It is Well with my Soul, words by Horatio Spafford (1873), was written after his four daughters perished on a French liner heading for Europe when colliding with an iron sailing vessel. His wife alone was saved. Melody by Phillip Bliss, who died along with his wife in a terrible train wreck in Ohio. You can download the complete MP3 album or individual songs on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B008O86FQI There is also a beautiful spiral-bound devotional guide available with the amazing stories and life principles gained from these timeless classics, as well as all the music arrangements in one spiral-bound volume. Both are available on: https://goalsforyourlife.com/gods-music-hymns/ For more information about Deborah, her albums, books and products, visit https://DJWorksMusic.com, https://goalsforyourlife.com/ or https://DeborahJohnsonSpeaker.com YouTube Link https://youtu.be/Se6uqItEaNk?si=f2RGC6IfMejoTwLI 

Bass Voice,Choir,Drums,Guitar,Rhythm - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1378959 Composed by John Newton/ Horatio Spafford (1773, 1873). Arranged by Deborah Johnson. Christian,Easter,Praise & Worship,Sacred,Spiritual. Accompaniment. Duration 233. Deborah Johnson #963677. Published by Deborah Johnson (A0.1378959). Deborah Johnson's arrangement of Amazing Grace/It is Well With my Soul offers a delightful medley that blends these beloved hymns seamlessly. Accompanied by piano and a unison chorus vocalizing oohs and ahs, this instrumental rendition promises to evoke cherished memories and inspire heartfelt worship. The contemporary folk-pop style infuses the medley with freshness, featuring challenging piano arpeggios and key changes throughout. With a medium level of difficulty, this arrangement is versatile and can be performed with or without vocals. This is the accompaniment MP3 without piano (includes vocals). Additionally, accompaniment MP3 track is available, without piano accompaniment and vocals. Downloadable sheet music also available.Up for a GRAMMY Award, My Father’s Favorite Hymns album includes this as well as other contemporary arrangements of hymns, available https://DJWorksMusic.com/products by Deborah Johnson. There is also a beautiful spiral-bound devotional guide available with the amazing stories and life principles gained from these timeless classics, as well as all the music arrangements in one spiral-bound volume. Both are available for direct shipping. Amazing Grace by John Newton (1773) is one of the most recognized hymns in the world, and is often thought of as a folk song. It was written to illustrate a sermon and was fairly obscure until the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th Century. The tune is to New Britain and it is performed about 10 million times annually. It is Well with my Soul, words by Horatio Spafford (1873), was written after his four daughters perished on a French liner heading for Europe when colliding with an iron sailing vessel. His wife alone was saved. Melody by Phillip Bliss, who died along with his wife in a terrible train wreck in Ohio. You can download the complete MP3 album or individual songs on Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B008O86FQI There is also a beautiful spiral-bound devotional guide available with the amazing stories and life principles gained from these timeless classics, as well as all the music arrangements in one spiral-bound volume. Both are available on: https://goalsforyourlife.com/gods-music-hymns/ For more information about Deborah, her albums, books and products, visit https://DJWorksMusic.com, https://goalsforyourlife.com/ or https://DeborahJohnsonSpeaker.com YouTube Link https://youtu.be/Se6uqItEaNk?si=f2RGC6IfMejoTwLI

Guitar,Piano and Keyboard - Interactive Download SKU: A0.482143 By Demo by Jim Petrone. By Nicholas A. Cocco and Kelly D. Brock. This edition: Interactive Download. Country. Lead Sheet / Fake Book. 17 pages. Duration 294. Published by CoccoMusic LLC and Underdog Music and Publishing (A0.482143). The Greatest Kiss by Kelly D. Brock and Nicholas A. Cocco The Greatest Kiss is a timeless and heart-warming song about the beautiful relationship between a father and his daughter. Sung as a first-person narrative, the father reflects on three important days in his daughter life: The day she was born, her broken-hearted teenage years and her wedding day. Now, with more life behind him than ahead, the father looks towards his future, with hope in his heart as he anticipates The Greatest Kiss of all. A tribute to the great Country songs of yesteryear, The Greatest Kiss is available for Licensing Male Demo available for both 4-verse and 3-verse versions at nimbitmusic.com/underdogpublishing.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.818283 By Stephen R Dalrymple. By Franz Joseph Haydn. Arranged by edited by Stephen R Dalrymple (Dalrymple Designs). Classical. Score. 14 pages. Stephen R Dalrymple #4967139. Published by Stephen R Dalrymple (A0.818283). Piano Sonata 40.2 Presto (Classical Music for Tablet Series) Franz Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in a small village in Austria, near the Hungarian border. ♫ His father was a wheelwright and a leader of the town. His mother had been a cook in the palace of a Count. His father had taught himself to play the harp. His family was musical and often sang together (16 brothers and sisters). His father saw that he was extremely musical and that he couldn’t get the education he needed in his little village. When he was 6 years old, he was sent to the home of a relative about 7 miles away to study to be a musician. He never lived with his parents again. ♫ In 1752 he was employed by Count Karl Joseph Morzin, leading the Count’s small orchestra and writing the first of his symphonies. ♫ In 1760 he married Maria Keller. They had a very unhappy marriage, producing no children. ♫ In 1760 Count Paul Andre Esterhazy (one of the wealthiest and most important nobles in the Austrian empire) hired him as assistant director of music. In 1766 at the age of 34, Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy appointed Haydn his Director of Music. His job was divided between the Esterhazy palace in Austria their palace across the border Hungary. ♫ Haydn dedicated Piano Sonata 40 to Princess Marie Esterhazy. He worked for the Esterhazys for the next 28 years, writing hundreds of pieces of music for the prince. After about 15 years, he signed a new contract allowing him to write music for other customers. Haydn’s reputation grew to international fame. ♫ Haydn wrote 104 Symphonies. (Some count 107.) Not unlike George Washington, nicknamed the “Father of our Country�, yet had no children, Haydn is known as the “Father of the Symphony.� and the “Father of the string Quartet.� ♫ Napoleon captured Vienna in 1809. Napoleon, himself, ordered an honor guard be placed at Haydn’s home where Haydn lay dying. ♫ The Classical Music for Tablet Series offers piano masterworks by classical composers formatted to be read on 10 inch tablets. I use an Amazon Kindle with Mobile Sheets Pro and an Air Turn blue tooth foot pedal to practice and perform piano music. Similar products available to provide other tablets the same functionality. ♫ The pieces in this series have not been arranged, but most have been edited slightly, and have been formatted to fit this screen size. For example, in the tablet versions, first and second endings are often removed and the repeated measures and endings written into the music so the performer can avoid having to go back to previous pages. These kinds of section repeats were invented to spare the composer’s time and the cost of extra paper and ink. But with a tablet the cost of paper and ink is irrelevant. ♫ Although there are a lot more page turns with a 10 inch screen compared with letter size pages, the readability of the music (due to the backlighting on the tablet) and the portability of the music (travelling with a small tablet instead of oversized books or portfolios of sheet music) easily makes up for the extra page turns. ♫ Your purchase provides one .pdf file that contains both the tablet edition and the letter size page (printable) version. There are several programs available online that will allow you to separate this .pdf file into 2 .pdf files to make it more useful.

Eight creative arrangements of familiar hymns that can be used in many different places in the worship service.   Contents: Be Thou My Vision Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing Dear Lord and Father of Mankind Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah He Leadeth Me I Sing the Mighty Power of God More About Jesus There Shall Be Showers of Blessing

Organ - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1406728 By Dr. Sheri L. Masiakowski. By Sr. Theophane Hytrek OSF. Arranged by Dr. Sheri L. Masiakowski. 20th Century,Religious,Sacred. Score. 7 pages. School Sisters of St. Francis #989483. Published by School Sisters of St. Francis (A0.1406728). “The Spirit of the Lord�  Sr. Theophane Hytrek OSFDedicated to Robert Verwoert on the occasion of his ordination to the priesthood — May 1971Sr. Theophane Hytrek OSF earned her PhD in composition from the University of Rochester (Eastman School of Music) in 1955.  She is known for a variety of compositional genres, e.g. keyboard (organ and piano), voice, and orchestra. Compositions for voice include masses, responses, psalm settings, hymns for congregation, choral music and solos.TEXT:The Spirit of the Lord is upon us. Send your Spirit upon us in this time and place, the Spirit who gives us comfort, the Spirit who brings light to our eyes, the Spirit who helps us say yes to your summoning Word.Bless us, Father, as you have done before, with the gift of your Spirit that he may stir new life within us.Blest are you in ev'rything that your Spirit makes new, now and for all ages to come.The source of this text is unknown. Though appropriate for Pentecost there is no direct connection to the scripture readings or sacramentary prayers for that Feast. The composition was written in the early years succeeding Vatican II (October 11, 1962 – December 8, 1965), a time of creative freedom. The language is period specific to that time, yet the music is universal.Rehearsal recommendation:The verse text is notated in consistent eighth-notes. Do not interpret this to mean that all syllables are to receive equal time.  Speak the text in natural cadence and then sing the pitches in that same natural cadence.  This will best represent Sr. Theophane’s intention.We invite you to browse other creative works by the School Sisters of St. Francis on our website:  https://www.sssf.org/SSSF/Our-Global-Impact/United-States/Music-Ministry/Catalog-of-Music.htm  Further information about our offerings is available from Dr. Sheri Masiakowski, curator of the Heritage Music Collection, at smasiakowski@sssf.org.

Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.818282 By Stephen R Dalrymple. By Franz Joseph Haydn. Arranged by edited by Stephen R Dalrymple (Dalrymple Designs). Classical. Score. 17 pages. Stephen R Dalrymple #4967137. Published by Stephen R Dalrymple (A0.818282). Franz Joseph Haydn was born in 1732 in a small village in Austria, near the Hungarian border. ♫ His father was a wheelwright and a leader of the town. His mother had been a cook in the palace of a Count. His father had taught himself to play the harp. His family was musical and often sang together (16 brothers and sisters). His father saw that he was extremely musical and that he couldn’t get the education he needed in his little village. When he was 6 years old, he was sent to the home of a relative about 7 miles away to study to be a musician. He never lived with his parents again. ♫ In 1752 he was employed by Count Karl Joseph Morzin, leading the Count’s small orchestra and writing the first of his symphonies. ♫ In 1760 he married Maria Keller. They had a very unhappy marriage, producing no children. ♫ In 1760 Count Paul Andre Esterhazy (one of the wealthiest and most important nobles in the Austrian empire) hired him as assistant director of music. In 1766 at the age of 34, Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy appointed Haydn his Director of Music. His job was divided between the Esterhazy palace in Austria their palace across the border Hungary. ♫ Haydn dedicated Piano Sonata 40 to Princess Marie Esterhazy. He worked for the Esterhazys for the next 28 years, writing hundreds of pieces of music for the prince. After about 15 years, he signed a new contract allowing him to write music for other customers. Haydn’s reputation grew to international fame. ♫ Haydn wrote 104 Symphonies. Not unlike George Washington, nicknamed the “Father of our Country�, yet had no children, Haydn is known as the “Father of the Symphony.� ♫ Napoleon captured Vienna in 1809. Napoleon, himself, ordered an honor guard be placed at Haydn’s home where Haydn lay dying. ♫ The Classical Music for Tablet Series offers piano masterworks by classical composers formatted to be read on 10 inch tablets. I use an Amazon Kindle with Mobile Sheets Pro and an Air Turn blue tooth foot pedal to practice and perform piano music. Similar products available to provide other tablets the same functionality. ♫ The pieces in this series have not been arranged, but most have been edited slightly, and have been formatted to fit this screen size. For example, in the tablet versions, first and second endings are often removed and the repeated measures and endings written into the music so the performer can avoid having to go back to previous pages. These kinds of section repeats were invented to spare the composer’s time and the cost of extra paper and ink. But with a tablet the cost of paper and ink is irrelevant. ♫ Although there are a lot more page turns with a 10 inch screen compared with letter size pages, the readability of the music (due to the backlighting on the tablet) and the portability of the music (travelling with a small tablet instead of oversized books or portfolios of sheet music) easily makes up for the extra page turns. ♫ Your purchase provides one .pdf file that contains both the tablet edition and the letter size page (printable) version. There are several programs available online that will allow you to separate this .pdf file into 2 .pdf files to make it more useful.