Search Results: Music: popular songs from The Owl at the Bridge

Boston: Published By Oliver Ditson & Co. ... [c1852]. Hard Cover. Consisting of Songs, Glees, Rounds, Catches, &c. Including Many of the Most Popular Pieces of the Day, Arranged and Harmonized for Four Voices. By Edward L. White, Teacher of the Piano Forte and Organ. Vol. II. Oblong 8vo, 223, [1] pages, index, 17 x 25 cm. Vol. 1 published by E. Howe, 1849. This edition has three volumes; vol. 3 arranged and harmonized by B. F. Baker and L. H. Southard. NUC 659:652 (MB, ICN, MH, MiU, MWA, NBuG, MdBP, CtHT-W). Original blue printed boards, black leather? spine stamped in gold; front cover loosening, rear cover detached, 1/3 of last flyleaf torn off; ink owner stamp; internally clean & lightly used. OB490.

Santander, 1955 [Aldus, S. A., Artes Gráficas Santander]. Soft Cover. Marzas, Picayos, Bailes, Danzas, Romances y Cantos Religiosos. Recogido en Todos los Pueblos, con Constancia de más de Medio Siglo, por el Rvdo. Sr. Doctor D. Sixto Córdova y Oña, Cura Párroco de Santa Lucí­a de la Ciudad de Santander. 446 p., photos, music throughout, index. "Este Libro Cuarto Compendia También los Libros Quinto y Sexto." Volume four of four: vol. 1, Cancionero infantil español, 1947; vol. 2, Cantos de labores y ronda, 1949; vol. 3, Cantos romeros, marineros, de quintos, nupciales y de cuna, 1952. Paper; cover edges a bit chipped, owner stamp on title-page; VG. stock#101361.

N.Y., Whittlesey House/McGraw-Hill [1934]. First Edition. Hard Cover. 'First Edition.' 148 p.; 23.5 cm. 'This book is the outgrowth of a single essay, first printed in The American Spectator. The late Ring Lardner had been hammering away at the suggestiveness of our popular song lyrics for a long time, but too often letting his honest indignation get the better of his sense of humor. Most of our smutty song texts can be more effectively spoofed than viewed with alarm. "The popular song has become a most revealing index to American life in general. It sums up the ethics, the habits, the slang, the intimate character of every generation" Stock# 37,141. Vg, a few marginal stains; top edge & spine of dj faded from the original pink.

Edward B. Marks Music Company / Hal Leonard Pub. Corp., Milwaukee [196-?]. Soft Cover. Folio; 64 p. Each of the 23 songs is in both Italian and English; some are in dialect. This album "offers a collection of the songs which attained highest popularity in their day, presenting them in modern arrangements... designed to be practical; besides piano and voice, it is adaptable also for violin, mandolin, ukulele, Spanish guitar or accordion. This is an entirely revised and enlarged edition of the album formerly known as 'Napoli'... new songs have been added..." Color pictorial paper covers; minor edgewear; VG. stock#25102.

Engraved piano transcription of the Scottish folk song. This score has just the music; we provide the lyrics. Softcover; music score, 7 pages; 33 cm. Good+, all leaves have old border guards from having been turned so often / in new marbled paper wrappers. Stock#35503E/h.

Halcyon House, NY [1939]. Hard Cover. xiv, 267 p., index, music, plates; 26 cm. red cloth boards a bit soiled, else VG. Contents include Fashionable Songs of the 'Fifties; Reconstruction Days; The Vogue of Harrigan and Hart; The Golden Age; We Moderns. 'Since this book was first published, in 1926, many tears and laughs have passed under the bridges of even our most supercilious noses. …a sequel was compulsory, almost automatically labelled Weep Some More, My Lady. This was followed in turn by Gentlemen, Be Seated, obviously devoted to the old-fashioned minstrel shows.' Stock# 37,162. American popular music, folk songs, folk music.

NY, Macmillan, MDCCCC [1900]. Born Agnes/Nesta Shakespear Higginson in Antrim in 1864 or '65, the poetess married Walter Claremont Skrine on 5 June 1895 and went with him to ranch in Alberta, Canada (cf. Burke's Landed Gentry, 1972). There she wrote poems that recalled the musical language of the people among whom she grew up and longing for the Ireland she had left behind (the last poem in the collection is called "Back to Ireland"). The poems were immediately taken up as popular ballads, set to music, anthologized. Hard Cover. x, 61 pages. This is a very good copy in paper boards. Stock#NS0035.

Chicago, Ziff-Davis, 1947.. Hard Cover. 246 p. 24 cm. Arrangements by Mischa and Wesley Portnoff. Stock #28,611. Vg/ no dj.