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1873 / Parlor songs
Silver Threads Among the Gold (H. P. Danks)
Parlor song · melody · Vocal verse and soprano chorus · Charles W. Harris, 1873
Danks and Rexford's song about love enduring with age. The playable melody follows the vocal verse and soprano chorus in the 1873 Charles W. Harris edition.
Playable score
A playable single-line score based on a published source of the same tune.
Transcription reference: online score
Vocal verse (16 bars) and soprano chorus (8 bars) from the 1873 edition, once each in B-flat major. Pitches, rhythms, rests, slurs and fermatas are retained. Piano, other choral voices, lyrics and returns for later verses are omitted. No harmony is added; playback tempo is editorial.
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Source and rights
The composition and this historical edition are public domain in Japan and the United States. Authors' death years: Hart Pease Danks (1903), Eben E. Rexford (1916). No modern arrangement or translated lyrics are used. Courtesy the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection, The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University.