Record Detail

Title:Florae memoriae
Creator:Baker, L.H.
Place of Publication:[United States]
Date of Publication:1825
Sub-group:American Antiquarian Society
Physical Description:2 scores (17 pages, 169 pages, 25 unnumbered pages) ; 29 cm
Contents:Links open individual songs at Internet Archive.
Oh lady! Why thus sadly gaze? : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n3/mode/2up
Dance No. 1 : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n3/mode/2up
Air No. 1 : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n3/mode/2up
Dance No. 2 : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n5/mode/2up
Dance No. 3: https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n5/mode/2up
Bennington's assembly : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n5/mode/2up
March No. 1 : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n5/mode/2up
Pinkey's remove : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n5/mode/2up
Mason's daughter : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n5/mode/2up
Fisher's hornpipe with variations : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n5/mode/2up
Grand spy : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n5/mode/2up
My Nanie O with variations : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n7/mode/2up
Speed the plough with variations : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n7/mode/2up
The quaker's wife : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n9/mode/2up
True riches : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n9/mode/2up
Laplander's hornpipe : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n9/mode/2up
Air No. 2 : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n9/mode/2up
Adjutant's favorite : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n9/mode/2up
Bonnie lass of Aberdeen : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n9/mode/2up
Hymn [Air:] Corydon's ghost [First line:] Ah! lovely appearance of death! / written by Rev. George Whitefield : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n21/mode/2up
Gloom of autumn [First line:] Hail! ye sighing sons of sorrow, view with me th' autumnal gloom : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n23/mode/2up
Lady Washington's inquiry [First line:] Hero, saw you my hero, saw you my hero George? : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n25/mode/2up
The bee [First line:] As cupid in the garden stray'd, a sporting in a damask shade : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n27/mode/2up
The mariner's song [First line:] A wet sheet and a flowing sea, a wind that follows fast / Allan Cunningham: https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n29/mode/2up
O 'tis love [First line:] O 'tis love, 'tis love, that rules us all completely : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n29/mode/2up
Hymn [First line:] O thou, in whose presence my soul takes delight : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n31/mode/2up
Song [First line:] This world is a stage, where all men engage : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n31/mode/2up
Steam boat excursion [First line:] O what a row, what a rumpus and a rioting : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n33/mode/2up
Burns' adieu [First line:] Adieu, a heart-warm fond adieu, ye brothers of our mystic tie : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n33/mode/2up
Advice to young ladies [First line:] No more along the daisy mead, I meet my fickle swain : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n35/mode/2up
Wolfe [First line:] In a mouldering cave, where the wretched retreat : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n35/mode/2up
The sweeper [First line:] As I sweep to and fro, old iron to find : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n35/mode/2up
The little pigs [First line:] Our little pigs lie on very good straw / composed by Alexander Lee : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n37/mode/2up
Crows in a cornfield [First line:] See yonder cornfield where waves the rip'ning grain / composed by T. Phillips : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n43/mode/2up
Mary, awake [First line:] The moon shines softly o'er the sea, Mary awake, Mary, awake / M. Vertue : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n55/mode/2up
When time, who steals our years away [First line:] When time, who steals our years away, shall steal our pleasures too / words and melody by T. Moore, harmonized by E. Phelps : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n59/mode/2up
The Neva boatman's song [First line:] Daylight fades, ev'ning shades o'er the silent waters creep / composed by C.E. Horn : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n65/mode/2up
The young muleteers of Grenada [First line:] Oh! the joys of our ev'ning posada, where resting at the close of the day / written by T. Moore, arranged by H.R. Bishop: https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n71/mode/2up
Will you come where the sweet brier grows [First line:] Will you come where the sweet brier grows, where the heath flower blossoms around? / written by Harry Stoe VanDyk, composed by John Barnett : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n75/mode/2up
Mynheer Vandunck [First line:] Mynheer Vandunck, though he never was drunk / composed by H.R. Bishop : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n79/mode/2up
The chimes of Zurich [First line:] The sun his parting ray had cast / written by Harry Stoe VanDyk, composed by C.E. Horn : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n93/mode/2up
Ship ahoy! [First line:] When o'er the silent seas alone / by Miss Louisa Gillingham : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n95/mode/2up
Kathleen O'Moore [First line:] My love, still I think that i see her once more : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n101/mode/2up
Glee [First line:] Come, fill the bowl, come fill it up / composed by George V. Farmer : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n103/mode/2up
The pleasure boat [First line:] Full swiftly from the smiling shore / written by Percival : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n105/mode/2up
Five times by the taper's light [First line:] Five times, by the taper's light : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n107/mode/2up
Devotion [First line:] Awake, my soul, and with the sun : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n111/mode/2up
Serenade [First line:] Look out upon the stars, my love : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n113/mode/2up
Barney Brallaghan [First line:] 'Twas on a windy night, at two o'clock in the morning / arranged by Moran : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n115/mode/2up
Oh! who sits so sadly [First line:] Oh! who sits so sadly and knows the fond sigh? / written by Mr. T. Toms : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n119/mode/2up
A health to the brave [First line:] A health to the brave, in fields afar / written by John Fell Dovaston : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n119/mode/2up
Believe me [First line:] Believe me, if all these endearing young charms / words by T. Moore : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n121/mode/2up
Flow on thou shining river [First line:] Flow on, thou shining river / words and melody T. Moore : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n123/mode/2up
Come, my heroes [First line:] Come, my heroes, fill your glasses / Stevenson : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n125/mode/2up
Gin living worth [First line:] in living worth could win my heart : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n127/mode/2up
Somebody [First line:] Were I oblig'd to beg my bread : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n133/mode/2up
The morn returns [First line:] The morn returns in saffron drest / composed by Mr. Paxton : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n135/mode/2up
The harp [First line:] The harp that once through Tara's halls the soul of music shed / words by Moore : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n137/mode/2up
Wreathe the bowl [First line:] Wreathe the bowl with flow'rs of soul : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n137/mode/2up
Song in Artaxerxes [First line:] If o'er the cruel tyrant love a conquest I believ'd / Dr. Arne : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n139/mode/2up
Sweet Poll of Plymouth [First line:] Sweet Poll of Plymouth was my dear / the air by Michael Arne, harmonized by Mr. Webbe : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n141/mode/2up
In a vale clos'd with woodlands / selected from The Elegies composed by Mr. Jackson : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n147/mode/2up
Her absence will not alter me [First line:] Though absent far from Jessy's charms : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n155/mode/2up
The maid of Llangollen [First line:] Though lowly my lot, and though poor my estate / harmonized by W. Hawes : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n157/mode/2up
I have a green purse [First line:] I have a green purse and a wee pickle gourd : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n163/mode/2up
Fairest, put on awhile [First line:] Fairest! put on awhile these pinions of light I bring thee : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n163/mode/2up
Oh! leave me to my sorrow [First line:] Oh leave me to my sorrow / by Thomas Moore : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n165/mode/2up
Jamie's on the stormy sea [First line:] Ere the twilight bat was flitting / composed by Barnard Covert : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n167/mode/2up
Air from the Oratorio of Solomon [First line:] What though I trace each herb and flow'r / Handel : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n169/mode/2up
Busk ye, busk ye [First line:] Busk ye, busk ye, my bonny, bonny bride / written by W.R. Hamilton : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n173/mode/2up
You remember Annie [First line:] You remember Annie, she was young and fair : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n175/mode/2up
My sheep I neglected [First line:] My sheep I neglected I lost my sheep / written by Sir Gilbert Elliot : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n177/mode/2up
Lovely lady Mary [First line:] 'Twas lovely lady Mary, the pride of Scotland's earl : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n177/mode/2up
Sweet Annie [First line:] Sweet Annie frae the sea beach came / harmonized by Beethoven : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n179/mode/2up
Song [First line:] Fare the well, thou first and fairest / words by Burns : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n181/mode/2up
The snow [First line:] An old man slowly said / words by Charles Lamb : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n181/mode/2up
Long time ago [First line:] Near the lake, where droop'd the willow :
Air of the ewe-buchtin's bonnie [First line:] Oh, the ewe-buchtin's bonnie, baith e'ening and morn : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n183/mode/2up
The fine ould Irish gentleman [First line:] I'll sing you a fine ould song / words by J. Brougham : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n185/mode/2up
Row, gently row [First line:] Row, row, not a beam / composed by Sir John Stevenson : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n187/mode/2up
The may fly [First line:] Poor insect, poor insect, what a little day / Dr. Callcott : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n193/mode/2up
Poor Robin's dream, commonly called Poor charity [First line:] I know no reason but this harmless riddle : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n197/mode/2up
The hunters of Kentucky [First line:] Ye gentlemen and ladies fair : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n201/mode/2up
The battle of Stonington [First line:] Three gallant ships from England came : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n203/mode/2up
Perry's victory [First line:] Ye tars of Columbia, give ear to my story : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n205/mode/2up
The American star [First line:] Come, strike the bold anthem : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n207/mode/2up
Parliament of England [First line:] Ye parliament of England, ye lords and commons too : https://archive.org/stream/FloraeMemoriae/479487_fovol06#page/n207/mode/2up

Subject(s):Music -- Manuscripts.
Popular music -- To 1901.
Music theory -- Elementary works.
Dance music.
Marches.

Notation:Standard
Notes:1 musical copybook with two scores. Volume I consists of 19 pieces including secular instrumental melodies and musical rudiments. Volume II consists of 65 pieces including secular and sacred songs for 1-4 voices.
Hand-painted title.
Inscribed, "Floræ memoriæ Volume I., 1825, L.H. Baker".
In several hands and inks.

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Item ID:479487_fovol06
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