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A definitive text dealing with the theory and practice of Western music in the 20th Century. (Summary by Jennifer Stearns)

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Music

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Shakespeare's plays are full of music: love songs, comic ditties, serious ballads, and songs for witches and spirits. Over the centuries musicians and composers have also created musical adaptations based on Shakespeare's plays. Composer Christopher Wilson's Shakespeare and Music (1922) documents the musical history of each play across various genres, including opera and incidental music. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

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Music

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This book talks about teaching, learning and performing on the piano in a delightful style, alternating between conversation and instruction. As he was the father of Clara Schumann and Robert Schumann's teacher, need I say more?...

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Music

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LOVE LIVE FORGIVE is an exciting collection of exclusive interviews with many of the world’s most visionary musicians, artists, and authors.

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“In this journey of reaching for the sound, the music, the voice, we find the only path is through the onrush of love, and the full rush of forgiveness.” - Naseem Rakha, Author, Speaker & Storyteller...

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Artistry Love & Forgiveness Compassion & Healing Transformation Unity

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El Godfrey: The Canta Barcariola of Dr. Thomas Mondini and the Arguments on Every Song of an unknown author.

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Popular songs with their original music.

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These 101 songs are all postmissionary and owe their musical origin to missionary hymns. None of them are technically chants but some, such as " 'Alika," "Hole Wai-mea," and "Maika'i Kaua'i," are chants that have been edited and set to music. The songs date from the mid-1850's to 1968—the date of Mary Kawena Pukui's Christmas song translations. The majority are from the time of the monarchy and so are already somewhat venerable. Nearly all are sung often today and are well known to Hawaiian singers. The texts have never before been written consistently with the glottal stops and macrons that make them nearly pronounceable by one not knowing Hawaiian. Many of them have not been translated before, or have been freely adapted rather than translated. Rarely have so many been assembled under one cover....

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This book contains songs from the prohibition period in 1884.

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This is the collection of traditional Sunday School songs in Hawaiian for the enjoyment of everyone.

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Ua hoomakaukau mua ia keia buke i buke lawe lima no na haumana o Kaumakapili. Ua komo no na lilo a pau no ka pai a me ka humuhumu ma ke kumukuai; oia hoi. ...

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Learning the Code, Book 1, is a traditional primer piano method written and edited by James L. King III.

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A primer level piano tutorial. Students begin learning basic rudiments and technique. Transitions easily to any traditional middle-c method book.

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Scherzo for miniature handbook pass to the Mirror of Andrömeda

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Mnemonics for music. Intended as entertainment.

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If your memory of the bass clef conflicts with your memory of the treble clef (and vise versa), then perhaps associating the notes above Middle C (treble clef) with famous women, while associating the notes below Middle C (bass clef) with famous men, would possibly help to reduce this problem for you??...

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This book will help reader to know about the file format.

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Front Cover===============1 Copyright Page============2 About Author==============3 Table of Content==========4 Introduction==============5 Basics about AMR==========6 Media Players for AMR=====8 Using AMR Player==========9 Technical aspects of AMR=10 Glossary=================12 Notes====================15 Back Cover===============16...

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This book is a Mind Map of the elocution program designed by Katharine Jewel Evert. It is a difficult subject to tackle on paper, that is, without any audio aids. However, in addition to covering the principles of speaking, the map is designed to be used as a workbook with exercises that can be applied to help anyone build a better speaking voice. It's theme is reading different types of books aloud and interpreting the authors thoughts for delivery, via the voice, into the mind of the listeners. This theme is also valid for two people simply talking. Your voice is your expression of yourself, one of the key characteristics that define you to the world (along with appearance and behavior); improve your speaking voice and improve your entire life....

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Characteristic of an instrument (your voice) that is in tune: A pleasing voice, a clear voice, an intelligible voice, a strong voice.

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Self Expression The Speaking Voice, Fundamentals Learning to Support the Tone; The Tuning of the Instrument Freeing the Supported Tone Reinforcing the Tone The Technique of the Instrument Change of Pitch Study in Inflection Study in Tone-Color The Law of Approach The Essay Reading aloud different types of texts...

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This volume contains a collection of traditional classic Hawaiian music.

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Previous to the year 1906 the researches of the Bureau were restricted to the American Indians, but by act of Congress approved June 30 of that year the scope of its operations was extended to include the natives of the Hawaiian islands. Funds were not specifically provided, however, for prosecuting investigations among these people, and in the absence of an appropriation for this purpose it was considered inadvisable to restrict the systematic investigations among the Indian tribes in order that the new field might be entered. Fortunately the publication of valuable data pertaining to Hawaii is already provided for, and the present memoir by Doctor Emerson is the first of the Bureau's Hawaiian series. It is expected that this Bulletin will be followed shortly by one comprising an extended list of works relating to Hawaii, compiled by Prof. H. M. Ballou and Dr. Cyrus Thomas....

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The hula. 11 -- The halau; the kuahu—their decoration and consecration. 14 -- The gods of the hula. 23 -- Support and organization of the hula. 26 -- Ceremonies of graduation; debut of a hula dancer. 31 -- The password—the song of admission. 38 -- Worship at the altar of the halau. 42 -- Costume of the hula dancer. 49 -- The hula ala&?a-papa. 57 -- The hula pa-ipu, or kuolo. 73 -- The hula ki?i. 91 -- The hula pahu. 103 -- The hula uliui. 107 -- The hula puili. 113 -- The hula ka-laau. 116 -- The hula ili—ili. 120 -- The hula kaekeeke. 122 -- An intermission. 126 -- The hula niau-kani. 132 -- The hula ohe. 135 -- The music and musical instruments of the Hawaiians. 138 -- Gesture. 176 -- The hula pa-hua. 183 -- The hula Pele. 186 -- The hula pa?i-umauma. 202 -- The hula ku i Molokai. 207 -- The hula kielei. 210 -- The hula mu?u-mu?u. 212 -- The hula kolani. 216 -- The hula kolea. 219 -- The hula mano. 221 -- The hula ilio. 223 -- The hula pua?a. 228 -- The hula ohelo. 233 -- The hula kilu. 235 -- The hula hoonana. 244 -- The hula ulili. 246 -- The hula o-niu. 248 -- The hula ku?i. 250 -- The oli. 254 -- The water of Kane. 257 -- Gene...

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This book is a collection of Hawaiian songs for the children of Temperance Union.

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A nui auanei oia imua o ka Haku; aole ia e inu i ka waina, aole hoi i ka mea awawa.

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This version of the Songs and Sonnets follows the 1635 edition, excluding only a single poem ‘Deare love, continue nice and chaste’.

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The Flea The Good-Morrow Song Woman’s Constancy The Undertaking The Sun Rising The Indifferent Love’s Usury The Canonization The Triple Fool Lover’s Infiniteness Song The Legacy A Fever Air and Angels Break of Day Another of the Same The Anniversary A Valediction of My Name, in the Window Twickenham Garden Valediction to his Book Community Love’s Growth Love’s Exchange Confined Love The Dream A Valediction of Weeping Love’s Alchemy The Curse The Message A Nocturnal upon St Lucy’s Day, Being the Shortest Day Witchcraft by a Picture The Bait The Apparition The Broken Heart A Valediction Forbidding Mourning The Ecstasy Love’s Deity Love’s Diet The Will The Funeral The Blossom The Primrose The Relic The Damp The Dissolution A Jet Ring Sent Negative Love The Prohibition The Expiration The Computation The Paradox Song Farewell to Love A Lecture upon the Shadow...

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It is the purpose of this series of articles to attempt a resolution on these questions by reviewing the ethnological history of the Hawaiian peoples as contained in their ancient traditions, rituals and epic poetry. It is the purpose of these articles to present the Hawaiian royal traditions unconfounded by the elements and theology of Christianity or the insidious influence of other cultural philosophies. It is our purpose to relate what will substantially be the same history, prayers, and chants that for innumerable centuries were recited by the Hawaiian priesthood of the Order of Io and the worship of Kane. If, as inevitably it must, there shall rise a conflict of thought between these articles and the preponderant opinion of modern anthropological research, we shall only be able to resolve or at least to mitigate these differences by restating our purpose of presenting the history of the Hawaiian from his own viewpoint. To accomplish this, we shall adhere strictly to our primary source of material, the Song of Eternity (He Koi Honua No Ke Aha Alii, Ka Halau Kapu O Keawe) of the Royal and Sacred House of Keawe, traditional ru...

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The Song of Eternity, never before disclosed to the public, is a series of heroic epics and liturgies. The last time that it was recited in its entirety was at the necrological ceremonies attending the funeral of the beloved Prince William Charles Lunalilo, King of Hawaii and sixth of the Dynasty of Kamehameha. Lenthy portions of it, however, have been chanted at other similar ceremonies, the most prominent of these being the coronation of David Kalakaua, and the furierals of the Queens, Emma and Liliuokalani; of the Princes William Leleiohoku, David Kawananakoa, and Albert Kunuiakea, and of the High-Chiefesses Kehauluohi II, Ruth Keelikolani, Peleuli Crowningburg-Amalu, Elizabeth Kekaaniau Pratt, and others. It may also be of interest to know that various of its liturgies were chanted at the ceremonies which elevated Archibald Cleghorn and John Owen Dominis as Princes of the Realm and which created the late Henry Gaylord Dillingham as a High-Chief of Hawaii in the Order of Kaleiwohi....

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A collection of easy listening Hawaiian songs that can be enjoyed in the comfort everyone's home.

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This volume brings together expressions of abiding devotion to Hawai i—the land, the ruling monarchs, the independent and sovereign kingdom. Many of these expressions are direct responses to the turmoil of the late 19th century, in particular the 1887 promulgation of the Bayonet Constitution that disenfranchised so many subjects of the Hawaiian kingdom, the 1889 revolt that attempted to reverse the erosion of those civil rights, the 1893 overthrow of Queen Lili uokalani, and the counterrevolution in 1895 by loyalists trying to restore the Queen to the throne. In late 1895, Francisco Jose Testa, editor of Ka Makaainana, collected 105 mele together in one volume to be published as Buke Mele Lahui. Testa, known as “Hoke” in Hawaiian, refers to these compositions as “mele aloha aina,” patriotic songs or songs of loyalty. Outpourings of such loyalty to the kingdom and monarchy were cast poetically and published regularly in pro-royalist Hawaiian-language newspapers of the time, especially Hawaii Holomua, Ka Lei Momi, Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Ka Makaainana, and Nupepa Ka Oiaio. Although Testa's introduction states that these texts we...

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This book contains a selection of compiled national songs of Hawaii.

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volunteers sing twenty of their favourite hymns.

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Music, Religion, Poetry

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As our weekly poem of 30-July-2006, “Jazz Fantasia” was a special challenge because it isn’t just about jazz, it IS jazz. The rhythm is central, but not so clearly defined, so we had to play around and improvise. Every reading is unique! (Summary by LauraFox)...

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volunteers bring you this year's selection of 25 sacred and secular carols and Christmas songs, in English, German and Latin.

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Holiday, Music, Religion

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This book is not written for professional musicians, but for untaught lovers of the art. It gives broad instruction on composers, styles, instruments, venues - and when to believe the critics. (Summary by Sarah Jennings)...

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Music, Instruction

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volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Verses on a Young Lady Playing on a Harpsicord and Singing by Tobias Smollett. This was the Weekly Poetry project for November 21st, 2010. Tobias George Smollett (19 March 1721 – 17 September 1771) was a Scottish poet and author. He was best known for his picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) and The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle (1751), which influenced later novelists such as Charles Dickens....

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Literature, Music, Poetry, Romance

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volunteers bring you 12 recordings of My Heart and Lute by Thomas Moore . This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 12th, 2010 My Heart and Lute is a song/poem by Thomas Moore. In Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Alice recognizes the tune used in the song called Haddocks' Eyes sung by the White Knight....

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Poetry, Music, Romance

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An imagined day in the life of each composer gives the anonymous author scope to describe each one's work and life, sketchily, of course, but interestingly. (Summary by David Wales)...

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Biography, Music

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Originally published in 1906, this book is essentially a how to guide on music appreciation. Includes sections on the pianoforte, orchestral, and vocal music. Good for anyone who wishes for a greater appreciation of the wonders of music. (Summary by prwells32)...

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Instruction, Music

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Padre Ignacio has been the pastor of California mission Santa Ysabel del Mar for twenty years. In 1855 a stranger rides into the mission bringing news and a spiritual crisis. It's really more of a novella than a novel. (Summary by David Wales)...

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Historical Fiction, Music, Religion, Westerns

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A biography of the Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frédéric Chopin and a critical analysis of his work by American music writer and critic James Huneker. (Summary by Julie VW)...

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Music, Biography

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A selection of Beethoven's letters from the compilation by Dr. Ludwig Nohl and translated by Lady Grace Wallace. (Summary by Scott D. Farquhar)

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Memoirs, Music

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’s first collection of sung and spoken folk ballads (13 in collection).

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The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. The story concerns Frederic, who, having completed his 21st year, is released from his apprenticeship to a band of tender-hearted pirates. He meets Mabel, the daughter of Major-General Stanley, and the two young people fall instantly in love. Frederic finds out, however, that he was born on 29 February, and so, technically, he only has a birthday each leap year. His apprenticeship indentures state that he remains apprenticed to the pirates until his 21st birthday, and so he must serve for another 63 years. Bound by his own sense of duty, Frederic's only solace is that Mabel agrees to wait for him faithfully. (Summary from Wikipedia)Cast Narrator: https://catalog. .org/people_public.php?peopleid=2506 Julie VW Frederic: https://catalog. .org/people_public.php?peopleid=103 Karen Savage Pirate King: https://catalog. .org/people_public.php?peopleid=4698 StephenC Samuel: https://catalog. .org/people_public.php?peopleid=5717 Phil Chenevert Ruth: https://catalog. .org/people_public.php?pe...

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Comedy, Music, Romance, Humor

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A collection of songs, many of them having been remixed online.

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Like the time in summer, I wanna be the air blowing from the sea Cooling you, making you come near me, or atleast want you to be with me So i’m singing this song, the breeze I will be for you in the summer you find every time I must not be dreaming, but i feel like the spirit flowing about, surrounding you, making everthing the way it should be....

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Originally modeled on the Psalms and other poetic passages (commonly referred to as canticles) in the Scriptures, Christian hymns are generally directed as praise and worship to the monotheistic God. Many refer to Jesus Christ either directly or indirectly. Since the earliest times, Christians have sung psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, both in private devotions and in corporate worship (Matthew 26:30; 1 Cor 14:26; Ephesians 5:19; Colossians 3:16; James 5:13; cf. Revelation 5:8-10; Revelation 14:1-5). One definition of a hymn is ...a lyric poem, reverently and devotionally conceived, which is designed to be sung and which expresses the worshipper's attitude toward God or God's purposes in human life. It should be simple and metrical in form, genuinely emotional, poetic and literary in style, spiritual in quality, and in its ideas so direct and so immediately apparent as to unify a congregation while singing it. (Summary by Wikipedia)...

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volunteers bring you 23 recordings of A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea by Allan Cunningham. This was the Weekly Poetry project for March 4, 2012. Allan Cunningham was a Scottish poet and author. Cunningham was apprenticed to a stonemason, but gave his leisure to reading and writing imitations of old Scottish ballads. His prose is often spoiled by its misplaced and too ambitious rhetoric; his verse also is ornate, and both are full of mannerisms. Some of his songs, however, hold a high place among British lyrics. A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea is one of the best British sea-songs, although written by a landsman.(Summary by Wikipedia)...

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Adventure, Music, Nature, Sea stories, Travel, Poetry

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The community wants to bring you a special treat for the 2006 Holiday Season. Here is a collection of traditional Christmas carols recorded by our wonderful voluteers. Enjoy! (Summary by Linda)...

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Music, Holiday

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The community wants to bring you a special treat for the 2009 Holiday Season. Here is a collection of 30 traditional Christmas carols performed in a variety of styles by our wonderful volunteers. Enjoy!...

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Holiday, Music

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volunteers bring you 17 recordings of Two Musicians by Sarah Orne Jewett. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for January 16, 2011. She published her first important story in the Atlantic Monthly at age 19, and her reputation grew throughout the 1870s and 1880s. Her literary importance arises from her careful, if subdued, vignettes of country life that reflect a contemporary interest in local color rather than plot. Jewett possessed a keen descriptive gift that William Dean Howells called an uncommon feeling for talk — I hear your people....

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Music, Philosophy, Poetry

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volunteers bring you 13 recordings of October by Florence Earle Coates. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 9, 2011. Mrs. Coates gained notoriety both at home and abroad for her works of poetry—nearly three-hundred of which were published in literary magazines such as the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's Magazine, The Literary Digest, Lippincott's, The Century Magazine, and Harper's. Many of her poems were set to music by composers such as Mrs. H. H. A. Beach (Amy Cheney Beach), Clayton Johns, and Charles Gilbert Spross. In 1915, Florence was unanimously elected poet laureate of Pennsylvania by the state's Federation of Women's Clubs. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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Fantasy, Music, Nature, Romance, Poetry

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volunteers bring you 12 recordings of A Bird in a Gilded Cage by Arthur J. Lamb. This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 2, 2011. A Bird in a Gilded Cage is a song composed by Arthur J. Lamb (lyrics) and Harry Von Tilzer (music). It was a sentimental ballad (or tear-jerker) that became one of the most popular songs of 1900,[1] reportedly selling more than two million copies in sheet music. (summary from Wiipedia)...

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Fantasy, Music, Philosophy, Romance, Poetry

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This is a collection of 14 songs chosen from Walter Crane's The Baby's Opera and The Baby's Bouquet containing classic nursery rhymes from England, France, and Germany. The songs are sung by 's very own Carol Stripling....

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Children, Music