Piano and voice - Digital Download SKU: LV.812 Composed by Effie I. Canning. Portraits, Parlors, Fireplaces, Clocks & watches, Board games, Checkers, Aged persons, Families, Children's furniture, Mothers & children, Nursery rhymes. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.812). Songs of the Old Homestead. No. 2. Rock-a-Bye Baby. Words and Music by Effie I. Canning. Published 1886 by Chas. D. Blake & Co., 488 Washington St. in Boston. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Parlors, Fireplaces, Clocks & watches, Board games, Checkers, Aged persons, Families, Children's furniture, Mothers & children, Nursery rhymes. First line reads Baby is sleeping so cozy and fair, while mother sits near in her old oaken chair.. 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Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents.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.
