This database comprises sheet music from the McLellan Lincoln Collection at the Hay Library written between 1859 and 1923. Music about Lincoln ranges from popular song to compositions for orchestral performance. Popular music about Abraham Lincoln proliferated between 1859 and 1865, and Lincoln songs are an important source for understanding attitudes of the day towards the Illinois candidate, later the 16th President, and his policy agenda. Lincoln appeared in a wide variety of music, including campaign pieces, patriotic war and memorial numbers, emancipation songs, and minstrel music. Music written about Lincoln since 1865 has tended to emphasize the epic character of Lincoln’s presidency during the national crisis of a civil war, American folk mythology surrounding Lincoln, and the use of Lincoln’s image in contemporary popular culture. Some pieces set Lincoln’s own writings to music, while others memorialize the events of his life or offer a reinterpretation for recent times.
words by Fleta Jan Brown ; music by Charles N. Grant. For voice and piano. Includes arrangements for mixed voices (SATB) and for male voices (TTBB) Caption title. On cover: The international peace song. Cover design: two doves holding red and blue ribbons that form the frames around portraits of George Washington, Woodrow Wilson, Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, W.J Bryan and Andrew Carnegie. Advertisements: "The whole town's wise" at bottom of p. [2]; "Piping rock" at bottom of p. 3; "As he rode her around", p. [4]; "I love you more each day", p. 5; excerpts from "When all the world's at peace", chorus- mixed voice arrangement and chorus- male voice arrangement on p. [6]
Arranged by J.A. Getze For 4 voices or chorus and piano. From poem originally published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons. Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346. The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant, or J. [sic] Cullen Bryant.
For medium voice with SATB chorus Cover title Poem originally published in 1862 as We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand strong, by James Sloan Gibbons
composed by the Wife of a Volunteer. For voice and piano, with choral refrain. Cover title. Poem originally published in 1862 as We are coming, Father Abraham, three hundred thousand strong, by James Sloan Gibbons.
[poetry from the N.Y. Evening Post] ; composed and arranged by Professor A. Cull. For voice and piano. From poem originally published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons. Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346. The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant, or J. [sic] Cullen Bryant. Verses 3-4 printed as text on p. 5
set to music by P.S. Gilmore. For voice and piano, with chorus refrain. From poem first published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons. Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346. The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant, or J. [!] Cullen Bryant.
music by N.J. Sporle For voice and piano, with chorus (SATB) From poem originally published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons. Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346. The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant, or J. [sic] Cullen Bryant. Star with number 3-1/2 printed on t.p.
music by N.J. Sporle For voice and piano, with chorus (SATB) From poem originally published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons. Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346. The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant, or J. [sic] Cullen Bryant. Star with number 3-1/2 printed on t.p.
poetry by Wm. Cullen Bryant ; music by L.O. Emerson. For voice and piano, with chorus (SATB) From poem originally published in the New York Evening Post, July 16, 1862: We are coming, Father Abraham / James Sloan Gibbons. Cf. BAL, v. 1, p. 346. The words sometimes erroneously attributed to Wm. Cullen Bryant, or J. [sic] Cullen Bryant. Star with number 2-1/2 printed on t.p.
as sung by him in New York & Boston with great applause. For voice and piano. Caption title: Tony Pastor's combination song. Words by John F. Poole. Verses 4-5 printed without accompaniment on p. 5.
words by H.S.W. ; music by Geo. F. Root. Song; for voice and piano; refrain set for chorus (SATB) and piano. "Thanksgiving 1861." Engraver of music noted at bottom of p. 5 as "S. Pearson, Eng'r., Chicago."
"Dedicated to Chloe E. Cook"--Cover Words and music by Seth A. Cook; arranged by F.S. Watson. Cover illustration of three assassinated presidents, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley For voice and piano
words by Dr. Muhlenberg ; music by J.W. Turner. A national hymn, in response to the proclamation of the President of the United States, recommending a general thanksgiving on November 26, 1863. Cover title. Pl. no.: 22148.
