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Thread #50670   Message #769329
Posted By: masato sakurai
21-Aug-02 - 07:03 PM
Thread Name: Origin: After the Ball (from Frances Black)
Subject: RE: After the ball, Frances Black
The sheet music (not the first edition, though published the same year as the first) is at the Levy collection (CLICK HERE):

Title: After the Ball.
Composer, Lyricist, Arranger: Arr. by Jos. Clauder. Words and Music by Chas. K. Harris.
Chas. K. Harris Publication: Boston: Oliver Ditson Company, 453-463 Washington St., 1892.
Form of Composition: strophic with chorus
Instrumentation: piano and voice
First Line: A little maiden climbed an old man's knee
First Line of Chorus: After the ball is over, after the break of morn
Performer: As Sung by J. Aldrich Libbey, the Peerless Baritone in Hoyt's "A Trip to Chinatown."
Engraver, Lithographer, Artist: unattrib. photo of Libbey, and of Harris
Advertisement: ads on inside front, inside back, and on back covers for Oliver Ditson Company stock
Subject: Portraits
Subject: Storytelling
Subject: Courtship
Subject: Love
Subject: Ballroom dancing
Subject: Anger
Subject: Sadness
Subject: Families
Call No.: Box: 140 Item: 002

Joan Morris: After The Ball/Vaudeville Hlts [with sound clip] may be closest to the original version.

~Masato