Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 October 2020
This appendix contains a catalog of compositions listed alphabetically by title with details, publication information, digital availability, and reproduction in microfilm series. Archival sources have been added for scores that are not yet digitized online.
Digital sources:
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860 (Library of Congress),
https://www.loc.gov/collections/american-sheet-music-1820-to-1860/
Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1870–1885 (Library of Congress),
https://www.loc.gov/collections/american-sheet-music-1870-to-1885/
Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu
IMSLP (Petrucci Index), www.imslp.org
Sheet Music Consortium (contains entries from many university special collections),
http://digital2.library.ucla.edu/sheetmusic/
HathiTrust Digital Library, www.hathitrust.org
American Periodicals (based on American Periodicals Series microfilm collections)
RIPM e-library of Music Periodicals (based on 19th Century American Music Periodicals microfilm collection)
Advent Hymn
4 Voices (SATB) and piano
Text: Rev. Thomas Olivers; “Lo! He comes in clouds descending”
Published in Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine 8, no. 6 (December 1880): 780
Uses same music as earlier “Excelsior”
HathiTrust
Air a la Suisse with Impromptu Variations for the Piano Forte
No. 12
Piano
Dedication: Mrs. William Swaim
Philadelphia: G. E. Blake, n.d.
Tune is Alexander Lee's “On the Margins of Fair Zurich's Waters”
Held in University of Texas Special Collections, HRC Min 100034 BW 35 HRC and Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County, bound sheet music, vol. 45
Air Irlandais, with Introduction and Variations [running title: Air Irlandaise]
Piano
Published in Journal of the Fine Arts 3, no. 5 (November 1, 1851): [98]–99
HathiTrust
The American Bouquet
Piano
Philadelphia: Osbourn's Music Saloon, n.d.; Philadelphia: Lee and Walker, n.d. New York: Horace Waters, n.d., with dedication: Miss Sarah E. Wise of Virginia Also published as no. 8 of 10 Home Amusements or Variations on the most popular old
& new melodies composed by J. C. Beckel (Philadelphia: Lee and Walker, 1852) Contains “Star Spangled Banner,” “Hail Columbia,” and “Yankee Doodle”
HathiTrust
“Angels Whisper.” With Variations
No. 26
Piano
Dedication: Miss S. J. M. Wylie, of Philadelphia
Philadelphia: G. E. Blake, n.d.
Variations on Samuel Lover's song “Angel's Whisper”
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