Author: Dodge, Ossian E.
Title: Ossian's Serenade. As Sung by Ossian E. Dodge, at Most of His Fashionable Entertainments Throughout the Union.
Description: Boston: Published by Oliver Ditson 115 Washington St. (1850). (1850). - Quarto, 13 inches high by 10-1/4 inches wide. Softcover, pictorial wraps titled with a lithographic portrait of Ossian E. Dodge illustrating the front cover. The sheet music, lithographed by B.W. Thayer & Co. was removed in the distant past from a larger collection of bound music of the period with stab marks along the left edge. There is some soiling to the front cover and a number penned in ink at the top right corner. Cover page and 2 pages of music with lyrics. The 2 sheets are nearly detached. Good.

First edition.

Born in Cayuga, New York, the American singer & songwriter Ossian Euclid Dodge (1820-1876) was known for his genteel comic songs. Dodge was known to move in political circles and was acquainted with Henry Clay, Millard Fillmore, and William E. Seward. His political interests led to his being selected to join the 1851 delegation for the World's Peace Congress in London. Through his relationship with Ada Clare, Ossian Dodge was associated with the NYC bar, Pfaff's, which was modeled on the German Rathskellers and served as a center of Bohemian culture of the period. Abstaining from alcohol, one of his compositions included the "Temperance Shout of Liberty". Dodge is also known for his songs "Level and the Square", "My Darling Boy", "Barnyard Serenade", and "The Beggar and his Dog", among others. Good .

Keywords: MUSIC; OSSIAN EUCLID DODGE; OSSIAN'S SEREMADE; FIRST EDITION; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATED; PICTORIAL SHEET MUSIC; 1ST EDITION; LITHOGRAPH; PORTRAIT; SHEET MUSIC; COMPOSITION; SONG; OLIVER DITSON; FASHIONABL ENTERTAINMENTS; B.W. THAYE

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