TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Title of Song.
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Author of Words.
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Composer, or Source, of Music. |
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First sung at a Sunday-School celebration in the Park Street Church, Boston, July 4, 1832.
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Samuel Francis Smith |
Unknown 1 |
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Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Carl Wilhelm 2, 3 | |
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True Freedom |
James Russell Lowell |
Friedrich Silcher 4 |
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This poem aroused great enthusiasm during the dark days of the Civil War.
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William Cullen Bryant |
Unknown 5 Air: Der Tannenbaum. The well-known songs, Lauriger Horatius and Maryland, my Maryland, are sung to this same air.
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From The Building of the Ship.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
German air 6, 7 |
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
German air 7, 8 | |
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Sung at the completion of the Battle Monument, April 19, 1836.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Ludwig van Beethoven 9 |
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James Russell Lowell |
Friedrich Silcher 10 | |
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Written when it was proposed to break up the U. S. Frigate Constitution, called Old Ironsides, as unfit for service. This appeal was greatly instrumental in saving the ship, which is still in existence.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Unknown 11 |
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Written in 1798 when a war with France was thought to be inevitable.
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Joseph Hopkinson |
Phyla 12, 13 The music of this song, called The President’s March, written by a Philadelphia musician, Professor Phyla, was first played when Washington came to New York in 1789 to be inaugurated.
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Written during the bombardment of Fort McHenry by the British in 1814, under the title The Defence of Fort McHenry. It was set to a popular song, Adams and Liberty.
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Francis Scott Key |
Samuel Arnold 14, 15 Air: Anacreon in Heaven, an old English hunting song.
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The Red, White, and Blue The editors have taken several liberties with this song, the chief of these being the use of the more appropriate title, The Red, White, and Blue, and the insertion in the third stanza of the name with which our veteran soldiers fondly greet the national banner. Old Glory. In singing the last stanza the Salute to the Flag can be given with good effect.
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David T. Shaw |
David T. Shaw 16, 17 |
