Parlour music
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Parlour music is a type of popular music which, as the name suggests, is intended to be performed in the parlours of houses, usually by amateur singers and pianists. Disseminated as sheet music, its h
Image of Charles K. Harris, A well regarded composer and song writer of many popular tunes of the time of Parlour music
Front cover of "Just Awearyin' for You" (1901), a widely selling parlor song. The lyrics were by Frank Lebby Stanton. Composer Carrie Jacobs-Bond thought they were anonymous but later provided royalties to Stanton. The song typifies the sentimentality of the Victorian and post-Victorian era.
The Great Wahoo Polka, by J.N. Pattison (1864), a dance inspired by the patent remedy "Wahoo Bitters".
Battle Hymn of the Republic
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The "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is an American patriotic song written by the abolitionist writer Julia Ward Howe during the American Civil War. It is sometimes called "Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory"
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…Rock-a-bye Baby" "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"/"John Brown's Body…
Julia Ward Howe, 1897
As originally published 1862 in The Atlantic Monthly