Excelsior
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Excelsior
Classmark: BC Case 43/TAY
Creator(s): Lindsay, Maria
Additional creator(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) (Other)
Related people: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Publisher: Robert Cocks & Co
Publication city: London (6, New Burlington St., London)
Date(s): [188-?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 score (([2], 1-5, [1] p.))
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/289584
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991002730349705181
Description
For voice and piano.
Caption title.
From poem: Excelsior / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Cf. Poetical works of Longfellow, Cambridge ed., 1975, p. 19.
Dedicated to: Miss S.A. Whitmore.
Advertisement for other songs: (1 p. at end).
Cover illustration: lithograph of flag inscribed "Excelsior".
First line of text: The shades of night were falling fast.
Additional description
Bound with 27 other publications in volume lettered: Mary Taylor's Music. 1. Volume contents: 1. Himmel, F.H. The battle prayer, [18--?]. -- 2. Arkwright, Mrs. R.: If you're waking call me early, [ca. 1850]. -- 3. Wade, J.A.: Morning around us is beaming, [ca. 1845]. -- 4. Sporle, N.J.: Maiden of Zante, [ca. 1850]. -- 5. Bishop, H.R.: Sweetly o'er my senses stealing, [ca. 1846?]. -- 6. Weber, C.M. von: The spell, [ca. 1850]. -- 7. Nairne, Lady: I'm wearin' awa John, [ca. 1850]. -- 8. Wallace, W.V.: 'Tis the harp in the air, [ca. 1845]. -- 9-10. Handel, G.F.: From the vocal works of Handel, [ca. 1850]. -- 11. Shelton, Mrs. H.: The sailor's grave, [1846?]. -- 12. Bellini, V.: Oh! divina agnese, [ca. 1845]. -- 13. Russell, H.: Cheer, boys, cheer, [184-?]. -- 14. Meyerbeer, G.: One moonlit eve, [ca. 1850]. -- 15. Russell, H.: To the west, [ca. 1850]. -- 16. Lindsay, M.: Excelsior, [188-?]. -- 17. Crouch, F.N.: Kathleen Mavourneen, [ca. 1845]. -- 18. Will you love me then as now?, [ca.
1850]. -- 19. Pestall, Colonel: Hark! the solemn chimes, [ca. 1850]. -- 20. Wallace, W.V.: Scenes that are brightest, [1846?]. -- 21. Bellini, V.: As I view these scenes so charming, [1847?]. -- 22. Crouch, F.N.: Dermot Astore, [1853]. -- 23. Weber, C.M. von: Softly sighs the voice of evening, [ca. 1845]. -- 24. -- Montgomery, W.H.: I will love thee to the last, [ca. 1850]. -- 25. Nairne, Lady: The laird o' Cockpen, [ca. 1850]. -- 26-28. Donizetti, G.: The songs in La figlia del reggimento, [184-]