Piano and voice - Digital Download
SKU: LV.20336
Composed by Mr. Shaw. Authors, Seamen, Courtship & love, Fathers & children, Death. Lester S. Levy Collection. 3 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.20336).
The Tall Young Oysterman. The Words by B. Holmes, Esqr. The Music Composed by Mr. Shaw. Published 1842 by George Willig, 171 Chesnut St. in Philadelphia. Composition of strophic with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Authors, Seamen, Courtship & love, Fathers & children, Death. First line reads There was a tall young oysterman Liv'd by the riverside..
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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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