Author: Levy, Lester S.
Title: Picture the Songs: Lithographs from the Sheet Music of Nineteenth Century America
Description: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Black clothboards with yellow and orange lettering on cover and spine, black and color illustrated dust jacket with yellow and orange lettering; x, 214 pp. appx. 100 bw plates. "Picture the Songs reproduces one hundred sheet music covers from the author's own collection - the most important private collection in the United States. They extend from 'The Log House' and 'The Archers March' of the 1820s to 'Get Your Lamps Lit' in 1895. Each lithograph chosen to illustrate some aspect of the life of the period, is accompanied by a facing page of text, which comments on the words and music, and the events that prompted them, as well as on the illustration itself. Many American homes during the last century had a piano, and music was relatively inexpensive. Thus, sheet music was the medium through which lithography was first indtroduced to a multitude of Americans. Only a few decades after the process has been developed, music sheet covers by the thousands were being produced, many with outstanding skill. This collection presents in chrronological order the work of fifty lithographers and such well-known artists as Winslow Homer, Fitz Hugh Lane, and James McNeill Whistler." - dest jacket description. G-/G- (foxing along textblock and on cover, some shelf wear at corners, all pages clear and intact) .

Keywords: American Art; American Music; Art; Music; Sheet Music; Lithograph ; Sheet Music - Illustrated ; American Music ; Art General Art - American


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