Notated Music The Vacant chair, or We shall meet but we shall miss him

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Title

  • The Vacant chair, or We shall meet but we shall miss him

Contributor Names

  • Root, George F. (George Frederick) -- 1820-1895 (composer)
  • W., N. S. (lyricist)

Created / Published

  • S. Brainard's Sons, Cleveland.

Subject Headings

  • -  United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music
  • -  Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with piano
  • -  United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Casualties -- Songs and music
  • -  Popular music -- United States -- To 1901
  • -  Soldiers -- United States -- Death -- Songs and music
  • -  Thanksgiving Day -- Songs and music
  • -  Popular Songs of the Day
  • -  Songs and Music
  • -  War and Conflict
  • -  Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)

Notes

  • -  Music associated with the Union side

Form

  • sheet music

LC Classification

  • M1640.R

Online Format

  • image

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Rights & Access

The contents of the Library of Congress Civil War Sheet Music Collection are in the public domain and are free to use and reuse.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Root, George F, and N. S W. TheVacant chair, or We shall meet but we shall miss him. S. Brainard's Sons, Cleveland, 1861. Notated Music. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200001916/.

APA citation style:

Root, G. F. & W, N. S. (1861) TheVacant chair, or We shall meet but we shall miss him. S. Brainard's Sons, Cleveland. [Notated Music] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200001916/.

MLA citation style:

Root, George F, and N. S W. TheVacant chair, or We shall meet but we shall miss him. S. Brainard's Sons, Cleveland, 1861. Notated Music. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200001916/>.