Record ID:
316329
Accession number:
Fuld
Creator:
Hopkinson, Francis, 1737-1791.
Title:
Seven songs for the harpsichord or forte piano / the words and music composed by Francis Hopkinson.
Uniform title:
Songs (1788)
Published:
Philadelphia : publish'd & sold by T. Dobson, (I. Aitken sculp.), [1788]
Credit Line:
James Fuld Collection.
Contents:
Come, fair Rosina, come away -- My love is gone to sea -- Beneath a weeping willow's shade -- Enraptur'd I gaze when my Delia is by -- See, down Maria's blushing cheek -- O'er the hills far away -- My gen'rous heart disdains -- The trav'ler benighted and lost.
Notes:
For voice and piano.
Printed dedication to George Washington dated Nov. 20th, 1788 precedes 1st p. of music.
Full texts of songs follow p. 11.
In library copy, the cover, the right-hand strip of the dedication and the loose "songs" (texts) at the end are reproductions.
Provenance:
James Fuld.
Associated names:
Dobson, Thomas, 1751-1823, publisher.
Fuld, James J., 1916-2008, former owner.
Department:
Music Collection: