Old Folks Music Book

Includes an unbound 1860 edition and a bound 1874 edition. The unbound version belonged to W.D. Franklin. Title page reads, "Father Kemp's Old Folks Concert Music. A Collection of the Most Favorite Tunes of Billings, Swan, Holden, Read, Kimball, Ingalls and Others. To which is added a variety of Anthems and Choruses, and Divers Patriotic and Other Songs of the Greatest and Best Composers." Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by O. Ditson & Co., in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington. "All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name," Holden "America" (My Country 'Tis of Thee) "Anthem for Easter," Billings "Anvil Chorus," Verdi "Auld Lang Syne" (Song of the Old Folks) "The Battle of Stonington" "Before Jehovah's Awful Throne," M. Madan "Blessing," S. Stanley "Blue Hill," Belknap "Boston," Billings "Bridgewater," Edson "Buckfield," Maxim "Cambridge," Dr. Randall "Celestial Watering," Ingalls "Chester," Billings ""Child of Mortality," Bray "China," T. Swan "Complaint," Parmeter "Confidence," Holden "Cousin Jedediah," H.S. Thompson "David's Lamentation," Billings "The Dearest Spot of Earth to Me is Home," W.A. Wrighton "Devotion," Read "The Dying Christian," Harwood "German Hymn," Pleyel "Greenwich," Read "Hail Columbia" "Home Again" "Invitation," Kimball "Jerusalem, My Glorious Home," Dr. Lowell Mason, 1840 "John Brown, or Glory, Glory, Hallelujah!" "Kidd's Lament" "Lenox," Edson "Lisbon," Read "Majesty," Billings "Marseilles Hymn" "Montgomery," Morgan "Mear," Williams' Coll. "Milford," Stephenson "Montague," Swan "Mount Sion" "My Grandma's Advice" "Nearer, My God to Thee," Dr. Mason "New Durham," Austin "New Jerusalem," Ingalls "Northfield," Ingalls "Ocean," Swan "Ode to Science," Swan "Old Folks at Home," Foster "Old Hundred," Martin Luther "Plainfield," Kimball "Portland," Maxim "Rainbow" "Revolutionary Tea" "Russia," Read "St. Martin's," Tansur "St. Thomas," Williams' Coll. "Sherburne," Read "Silver Street," I. Smith "Song of the Old Folks" (Auld Lang Syne) "Sons of Zion Come Before Him," Nauman "Sound the Loud Timbrel," Avison "The Star Spangled Banner" "Strike the Cymbal," Pucita "Turner," Maxim "Victory," Read "When George the Third was King" "Windsor," Kirby "Within a Mile of Edinboro' Town" "Worcester," Wood "Yankee Doodle" (Yankee Return from Camp) "Yankee Return from Camp" (Yankee Doodle)