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1868 / Parlor songs
Dreaming of Home and Mother (John P. Ordway)
Parlor song · voice, chorus and piano · 1868 edition · complete music, pp. 3–5
John P. Ordway's song recalling home and mother. The 1868 score includes a solo verse, a four-part chorus and piano accompaniment.
Playable score
A playable single-line score based on a published source of the same tune.
Transcription reference: online score
Transcribed from the 1868 scan: the 16-bar vocal verse and 8-bar soprano chorus, played once each in the original E-flat major. Pitches, rhythms, rests and slurs are retained. The eight-bar piano introduction, accompaniment, postlude, other choral voices and lyrics are omitted. No harmony is added. The first sung bar is a complete bar; playback tempo is editorial.
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Source and rights
The composition and this 1868 edition are public domain in Japan and the United States. John P. Ordway died in 1880. Published by G. D. Russell & Company, Boston, plate 1319; the three music pages are reproduced without a modern arrangement. Courtesy the Lester Levy Sheet Music Collection, The Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University.
Levy Collection, Johns Hopkins University · box 100, item 068