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Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Unknown 18, 19, 20 | |
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M. Woolsey Stryher |
Unknown 20 | |
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Written for the celebration of the Mercantile Library Association, in Boston, February 22, 1856.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Ludwig van Beethoven 21 From the choral setting of Schiller’s Hymn of Joy at the close of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
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William Ross Wallace |
Bernard Covert 22, 23 | |
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From the poem At Port Royal.
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
Wenzel Müller 24, 25 1767-1835. |
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
Albert Gottlieb Methfessel 26 1785-1869. | |
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Thomas Buchanan Read |
William F. Hartley 27, 28, 29 |
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Philip Paul Bliss |
Philip Paul Bliss 30, 31 | |
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Written on hearing the bells ring on the passage of the constitutional amendment abolishing slavery.
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
Jonathan Battishill 32 |
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This song, Old Folks at Home, one of the best known ever written, is one of Foster’s famous Plantation Melodies.
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Stephen Collins Foster |
Stephen Collins Foster 33 |
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Phoebe Cary |
Unknown 34, 35 | |
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Written in Washington during the Civil War, where the author had listened for hours to the tramp of marching troops going to the front.
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Julia Ward Howe |
Unknown 36, 37 The melody was first known to be used in a negro Presbyterian church in Charleston, S. C, in 1859. Soon after it was used in the North with the words, "Say, brothers, will you meet us?" During the Civil War this song became very popular with the soldiers and the people.
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Dedicated to the Stay-at-Home Rangers.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes |
Scotch Air 38, 39 Air: Bonnie Dundee. |
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From the poem read at a celebration on July 4, 1883.
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 40, 41 |
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Tenting on the Old Camp-Ground Written while the author was preparing to go to the front as a soldier.
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Walter Kittredge |
Walter Kittredge 42, 43 |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
Johann Aegidius Geyer 43 | |
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James Riley |
L. V. H. Crosby 44 Air: Dearest Mae. Also, It was my Last Cigar.
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Written for the Centennial Exposition held in Philadelphia, 1876.
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John Greenleaf Whittier |
John Knowles Paine 45 |
