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Notated MusicBrooklyn Bridge march Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.- Contributor: King, Jas
- Date: 1883
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Notated MusicBrooklyn bridge grand march Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.- Contributor: Mack, E.
- Date: 1883
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Notated MusicStrolling on the Brooklyn Bridge Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.- Contributor: Skelly, J. P.
- Date: 1883
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Notated MusicMeet me on the Brooklyn bridge Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.- Contributor: Skelly, J. P.
- Date: 1883
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Notated MusicOver the Brooklyn bridge; Serio-comic song Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.- Contributor: Skelly, J. P.
- Date: 1883
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Notated MusicOver the Brooklyn bridge; Serio-comic song Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.- Contributor: Skelly, J. P.
- Date: 1883
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Notated MusicMoonlight on the Brooklyn Bridge; Waltz song Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.- Contributor: Skelly, J. P.
- Date: 1883
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ArticleFriends from the Stephen Foster Era Some of Foster's fellow songwriters of the Civil War period were still active: Henry Clay Work (1832-1884), Will S. Hays (1837-1907), and George Frederick Root (1820-1895). Work, with his "Grandfather's Clock,"(audio clip) and Hays, with "The Little Old Cabin in the Lane" (parodied as the cowboy song "The Little Old Sod Shanty on My Claim"), each had one of his most enduring hits in… -
ArticleThemes in Popular Songs Two great social causes of the 1870s and 1880s were temperance and woman suffrage. The two are very unequally represented in this online collection: temperance by hundreds of pieces, woman suffrage by a mere handful. The near-complete lack of suffrage songs may not represent a lack of interest among songwriters: George Cooper and Edwin Christie, who wrote "Daughters of Freedom! The Ballot be Yours"… -
ArticleA New Generation of Songwriters The new songwriter of the period whose songs made the most permanent impact on American music was James M. Bland (1854-1911), the first prominent African-American songwriter, whose "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," "In the Evening by the Moonlight," and "Golden Slippers" are still well known. Other songs of his that were major hits during the period are "In the Morning by the Bright… -
ArticleGreatest Hits, 1870-85: Variety Music Cavalcade The following information is listed courtesy of Vincent dePaul Lupiano (author, along with Ken Sayers, of It Was a Very Good Year, (Holbrook, MA: Bob Adams, Inc., 1994./ Mr. Lupiano is the copyright holder for Julius Mattfeld's "Variety Music Cavalcade" 1620-1969: A Chronology of Vocal and Instrumental Music Popular in the United States (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1971), where the following "Greatest Hits" were…- Date: 1870