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Thread #78864   Message #1423979
Posted By: MMario
01-Mar-05 - 12:27 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Jack Downing's Songbook
Subject: RE: Origins: Jack Downing's Songbook
The following item is in the Thomas Edison Sheet music collection:

The harper's song. Words from Rockeby. Composed and arranged for the piano forte by T.V. Wiesenthal. Philadelphia. Published by John G. Klemm. [1824?] 2 p. 32 cm.


Pub. no. 277.
Wolfe 9900 is an issue by Klemm with guitar acc.
Song, pfte acc. Three staves.
First line: Summer eve is gone and past, summer dew is falling fast.


But I also find dreference to it under Sir W. Scott -
UK book site has a piece of music by J.F. Barnett described as:
The Minstrel. Song (begins: Summer eve is gone and past) ... Written by Sir W. Scott