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All That I Ask of You is Love. Ballad
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All That I Ask of You is Love. Ballad
All That I Ask of You is Love. Ballad
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Herbert Ingraham
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All That I Ask of You is Love.
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Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
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Piano and voice (solo and TTBB chorus) - SKU: LV.7382 Composed by Herbert Ingraham. Portraits, Courtship. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published ...
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Piano and voice (solo and TTBB chorus) - SKU: LV.7382 Composed by Herbert Ingraham. Portraits, Courtship. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.7382). All That I Ask of You is Love. Ballad. Lyric by Edgar Selden. Melody by Herbert Ingraham. Published 1910 by Shapiro Music Publisher, Cor. Broadway and 39th Street in New York. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice (solo and ttbb chorus) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Courtship. First line reads I care not what the world may say, or, if it mock and jeer.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
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All That I Ask Of You Is Love (A Wedding Solo for Baritone Voice)
All That I Ask Of You Is Love (A Wedding Solo for Baritone Voice)
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Lyrics by Edgar Seldon and Mel
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Joanna Mills
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All That I Ask Of You Is Love
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Baritone Horn TC,Vocal Solo,Voice - Level 2 - SKU: A0.781336 Composed by Lyrics by Edgar Seldon and Melody by Herbert Ingraham. Arranged by Joanna Mills...
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Baritone Horn TC,Vocal Solo,Voice - Level 2 - SKU: A0.781336 Composed by Lyrics by Edgar Seldon and Melody by Herbert Ingraham. Arranged by Joanna Mills. Holiday,Jazz,Standards,Wedding. 6 pages. Joanna Mills Music #4608037. Published by Joanna Mills Music (A0.781336). This lovely vintage love song from 1910 is updated for the modern singer, but still retains the slightly jazzy ballad feel of the times. Written for a baritone soloist (B2 - B3) and piano accompanist; approximate performance time is 3:20. Perfect for weddings, engagements, or concerts and recitals.
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All That I Ask Of You Is Love (A Wedding Duet for Soprano & Tenor Voice)
All That I Ask Of You Is Love (A Wedding Duet for Soprano & Tenor Voice)
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Voix duo, Piano
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FACILE
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Edgar Seldon
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Joanna Mills
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All That I Ask Of You Is Love
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Joanna Mills Music
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Level 2 - SKU: A0.781335 Composed by Edgar Seldon (Lyrics) and Herbert Ingraham (Melody). Arranged by Joanna Mills. Holid...
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Piano,Voice Duet Piano,Voice - Level 2 - SKU: A0.781335 Composed by Edgar Seldon (Lyrics) and Herbert Ingraham (Melody). Arranged by Joanna Mills. Holiday,Jazz,Traditional,Wedding. 9 pages. Joanna Mills Music #4607995. Published by Joanna Mills Music (A0.781335). This tender vintage love song from 1910 is updated for the modern singer, but still retains the slightly jazzy ballad feel of the times. Arranged as a duet for Soprano (E4-E5) and Tenor (E3-G#4) and piano accompanist; approximate performance time is 3:20. Perfect for weddings, engagements, or concerts and recitals.
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All That I Ask of You is Love. Ballad
All That I Ask of You is Love. Ballad
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Chorale TTBB
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Herbert Ingraham
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All That I Ask of You is Love.
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Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
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Composed by Herbert Ingraham. Portraits, Courtship. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.7706). - -...
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Composed by Herbert Ingraham. Portraits, Courtship. Lester S. Levy Collection. 4 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.7706). - - - Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
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Love Of My Life
Love Of My Life
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Piano seul
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Queen
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Juan MarÃa Solare
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Love Of My Life
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Juan Maria Solare
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Piano Solo - Level 4 - SKU: A0.596585 By Queen. By Freddie Mercury and Frederick Mercury. Arranged by Juan MarÃa Solare. Rock. Score. 5 pages. Juan M...
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Piano Solo - Level 4 - SKU: A0.596585 By Queen. By Freddie Mercury and Frederick Mercury. Arranged by Juan MarÃa Solare. Rock. Score. 5 pages. Juan Maria Solare #5214229. Published by Juan Maria Solare (A0.596585). Love Of My Life -composed by Freddie Mercury- is one of the most beautiful ballads in the history of rock music, and a fantastic song to play as piano solo. This is not a simplified arrangement. Is an arrangement that will sound quite like the original - with the obvious difference that all music and secondary melodies must be played by a single instrument - the piano. This version follows the studio recording, not the version made by Queen for their live performances. My score includes chord symbols, in case you prefer to play them instead of reading exactly each note I've written. You can have a listen at YouTube (and soon on Spotify and other digital platforms): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0J013MNcNU Love Of My Life was included on Queen’s album A Night at the Opera (1975). The ballad was composed for Mary Austin. Freddie Mercury said about this song: Love Of My Life is adapted on stage for guitar, but it was written on the piano. I've totally forgotten the original and if you asked me to play that now, I couldn't. Sometimes, I have to go back to the music sheet, and I can't read that well either. (Queen Archives – Freddie Mercury Interview, Melody Maker 05-02-1981) I hate this thing about trying to recreate the albums on stage. We sometimes deliberately change. Look at 'Love Of My Life', for instance. On record I play piano on that but on stage it's just Brian playing the guitar and me singing it, because it works on stage better that way. (Love Of My Life – Queenpedia.com – Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, John Deacon, Discography, Bibliography, Charts.)
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"Go And Ask My Mother." Comic Ballad
"Go And Ask My Mother." Comic Ballad
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Piano, Voix
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Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries
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Piano and voice - SKU: LV.16753 Composed by J. H. Hewitt. Courtship & love, Mothers & children. Lester S. Levy Collection. 3 pages. Published by Johns H...
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Piano and voice - SKU: LV.16753 Composed by J. H. Hewitt. Courtship & love, Mothers & children. Lester S. Levy Collection. 3 pages. Published by Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries (LV.16753). Go And Ask My Mother. Comic Ballad. Written and Composed By J.H. Hewitt. Published 1848 by F.D. Benteen in Baltimore. Composition of strophic with chorus with piano and voice instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Courtship & love, Mothers & children. First line reads You've told me many a time and oft, That I was fair and comely.. About The Lester S. Levy CollectionThe Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet Music consists of over 29,000 pieces of American popular music. Donated to Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries, the collection's strength is its thorough documentation of nineteenth-century American through popular music. This sheet music has been provided by Project Gado, a San Francisco Bay Area startup whose mission is to digitize and share the world's visual history.WARNING: These titles are provided as historical documents. Language and concepts within reflect the opinions and values of the time and may be offensive to some.
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Scarborough Fair
Scarborough Fair
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Piano seul
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Simon And Garfunkel
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Timothy Stapay
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Scarborough Fair
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Timothy Stapay
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Piano Solo - Level 5 - SKU: A0.847962 By Simon And Garfunkel. By Traditional English Ballad. Arranged by Timothy Stapay. Baroque,Contest,Festival,Film/T...
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Piano Solo - Level 5 - SKU: A0.847962 By Simon And Garfunkel. By Traditional English Ballad. Arranged by Timothy Stapay. Baroque,Contest,Festival,Film/TV,Folk,Traditional. Score. 6 pages. Timothy Stapay #454662. Published by Timothy Stapay (A0.847962). Scarborough Fair is a traditional English ballad. A famous version was recorded by Simon and Garfunkel. The lyrics of Scarborough Fair appear to have something in common with a Scottish ballad titled The Elfin Knight (Child Ballad #2, collected by Francis James Child, which has been traced as far back as 1670. In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task (For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he); she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform (I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand). Dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century. A number of older versions refer to locations other than Scarborough Fair, including Wittingham Fair, Cape Ann, twixt Berwik and Lyne, etc. Many versions do not mention a place name and are often generically titled (The Lovers' Tasks, My Father Gave Me an Acre of Land. The references to the traditional English fair, Scarborough Fair and the refrain parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme date to 19th-century versions, and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad Riddles Wisely Expounded, which has a similar plot. O, where are you going? To Scarborough fair, Savoury sage, rosemary, and thyme; Remember me to a lass who lives there, For once she was a true love of mine. And tell her to make me a cambric shirt, Savoury sage, rosemary, and thyme, Without any seam or needlework, And then she shall be a true love of mine. And tell her to wash it in yonder dry well, Savoury sage, rosemary, and thyme, Where no water sprung, nor a drop of rain fell, And then she shall be a true love of mine..
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Sea Songs
Sea Songs
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Steve Martland
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Sea Songs
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Schott Music - Digital
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Mixed choir (SSSAAATTTBBB) - difficult - SKU: S9.Q19671 For mixed choir. Composed by Steve Martland. This edition: choral score. Choral Music of ...
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Mixed choir (SSSAAATTTBBB) - difficult - SKU: S9.Q19671 For mixed choir. Composed by Steve Martland. This edition: choral score. Choral Music of Our Time. Downloadable, Choral score. Duration 23 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q19671. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q19671). English.Sea Songs, commissioned jointly by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Glasgow Concert Halls, is a kind of sequel to Martland's Street Songs (originally written for the Kings Singers and Evelyn Glennie). As with the earlier piece, Martland made use of to the library of the English Folk Song and Dance Society at Cecil Sharp House in north London. I wanted specifically to find texts that were not just the usual nautical heave-ho sort of thing, but instead explored the dangers and hardships still being experienced by sailors as recently as the early 19th century. I was also very happy to see in these texts the sense of camaraderie and mutual support that existed between the sailors. (Steve Martland) Dance to your Daddy sets the scene of a sailor's wife at home, dandling her baby son and singing to him about his daddy away fishing, and about the future. Both the tune and the words come from the Northumberland area around Newcastle. This song is very well known in the UK and gave the title to a famous television series When the boat comes in. Fire Down Below is about the effects of fire - a constant danger on board wooden ships. At the end of this song the words take on an extended meaning: Fire in our hearts for the friends that we love. The Dead Horse is about the initial month of work without pay in which all seamen had to take part. They referred to it as the dead horse - hence the expression to flog a dead horse when something is a waste of time. The seamen resented this unpaid time, and the text expresses their frustrations metaphorically by listing what they would do to the horse! The music's frantic gallop alludes to the horse's desperation. Although The Sea Martyrs presents itself as a ballad, this text has a more literary feel, and unlike the other songs it doesn't include a chorus refrain. It concerns the sailors' lack of pay, the consequences of asking for pay (being hanged!), and the poverty of their families at home. The poem portrays the sailors' deaths as an almost religious sacrifice to help future seamen. At the end of the work, the opening of Dance to your Daddy returns as a kind of descant, sung by an angel calling to the hanged men. © Paul Hillier, 2012.
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