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SCORES & PLAYBACK
Parlor songs
Songs written for singing at home with piano accompaniment. Foster's 'Hard Times Come Again No More' offers a vocal line and piano parts to explore on bellows instruments.
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- Dreaming of Home and Mother (John P. Ordway)Open score
John P. Ordway's song recalling home and mother. The 1868 score includes a solo verse, a four-part chorus and piano accompaniment.
- Long, Long Ago (Thomas Haynes Bayly)Open score
Bayly's song about memories of a loved one. The digital melody follows the historical A. Fiot edition.
- When You and I Were Young, Maggie (J. A. Butterfield)Open score
A song recalling youth and a shared life, with words by George W. Johnson and music by James A. Butterfield. The playable melody follows the first verse and soprano chorus in the C. Sheard edition.
- Silver Threads Among the Gold (H. P. Danks)Open score
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.
- Hard Times Come Again No MoreOpen score
Stephen Foster's song in a complete three-page voice-and-piano edition.
- When the Swallows Homeward FlyOpen score
Franz Abt's song in a complete public-domain voice-and-piano edition.
- Alice, Where Art Thou?Open score
Joseph Ascher's song in the complete voice-and-piano edition, with W. Guernsey's words in the PDF.
- The Old Oaken BucketOpen score
Kiallmark's song with Woodworth's words in a complete two-page voice-and-piano edition.
- Gentle Annie (Stephen Foster)Open score
Gentle Annie (Stephen Foster): complete voice and piano score (1856).