Stories of Great National SongsYoung churchman Company, 1899 - 238 pages |
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... interesting account of the Italian song , " Daghela avanti un Passo , " which means , " Move a step forward . " It is a striking exemplification of the tremendous power of popular song . In 1858 Milan was a hotbed of Italian conspiracy ...
... interesting account of the Italian song , " Daghela avanti un Passo , " which means , " Move a step forward . " It is a striking exemplification of the tremendous power of popular song . In 1858 Milan was a hotbed of Italian conspiracy ...
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... interesting and remarkable events ever known in the history of our government showing the power of a simple song , was the great political storm which swept over this country in 1840. In that year there lived at Zanesville , Ohio ...
... interesting and remarkable events ever known in the history of our government showing the power of a simple song , was the great political storm which swept over this country in 1840. In that year there lived at Zanesville , Ohio ...
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... interesting , perhaps , as well as curious , to look briefly into its peculiar history . Benson J. Lossing , that master in everything of importance concerning revolutionary times and men , tells us that the air Nancy Dawson - which ...
... interesting , perhaps , as well as curious , to look briefly into its peculiar history . Benson J. Lossing , that master in everything of importance concerning revolutionary times and men , tells us that the air Nancy Dawson - which ...
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... interesting . It has had a great mission . With all the derision that has been heaped upon it , it is none the less a great tune . When one hears the once ridiculed and rollicksome strains of " Yankee Doodle " let him cogitate the fact ...
... interesting . It has had a great mission . With all the derision that has been heaped upon it , it is none the less a great tune . When one hears the once ridiculed and rollicksome strains of " Yankee Doodle " let him cogitate the fact ...
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... interesting " Stories of Famous Song , " says : " There is no romance whatever attached to the origin of ' Hail Columbia . ' " It is evident that he said this be- cause he did not understand the story of the stormy times in which this ...
... interesting " Stories of Famous Song , " says : " There is no romance whatever attached to the origin of ' Hail Columbia . ' " It is evident that he said this be- cause he did not understand the story of the stormy times in which this ...
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Advance the flag American arms authorship band battle cry Battle Hymn became began Bonnie Blue Flag born Boston boys Brander Matthews brave Brown's body lies called Charles Carroll Sawyer cheer chorus civil composed Confederate cry of freedom Dixie land Emmett English famous flag of Dixie France German glory hallelujah heard heart Henry hundred Hurrah inspired John Brown John Brown's Body John Howard Payne Julia Ward liberty living look Marching Through Georgia Marseillaise Maryland melody national hymn national songs never Old Shady patriotic songs place like home poem poet popular rally round regiment Rhine Root sang says sentiment Sherman Shouting the battle sing singer soldiers soul is marching South Southern stanzas Star Spangled Banner story sung Sweet Home thousand tis of Thee tune Union verse victory voice WALTER KITTREDGE war song words and music write written wrote Yankee Doodle York young
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Page 111 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword, His truth is marching on.
Page 60 - My native country, thee, Land of the noble, free. Thy name I love ; I love thy rocks and rills, Thy woods and templed hills: My heart with rapture thrills Like that above.
Page 47 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps pollution.
Page 46 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses? Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam, In full glory reflected, now shines on the stream. 'Tis the star-spangled banner; oh, long may it wave O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave!
Page 60 - Let music swell the breeze, And ring from all the trees Sweet freedom's song! Let mortal tongues awake; Let all that breathe partake; Let rocks their silence break, The sound prolong! Our fathers...
Page 118 - He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment seat : Oh ! be swift, my soul, to answer Him ! be jubilant, my feet ! Our God is marching on. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me : As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free, While God is marching on.
Page 212 - King! Long live our noble King! God save the King! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to reign over us! God save the King!
Page 30 - Chorus Yankee Doodle, keep it up,, Yankee Doodle, dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy.
Page 46 - Oh say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming? And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Page 1 - I knew a very wise man so much of Sir Christopher's sentiment, that he believed if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation.