Title:Manuscript music book belonging to Wilson Boehm.
Place of Publication:[United States?]
Date of Publication:1854
Sub-group:Center for Popular Music
Physical Description:1 score (52 pages); 18 x 27 cm.
Contents:Links open individual songs at Internet Archive.
Land of rest [First line:] Oh land of rest for the I sigh --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n1/mode/2up
Clinton [First line:] Come ye sinners poor and wretched --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n3/mode/2up
We are but young [First line:] We are but young yet we may sing --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n5/mode/2up
Hilltown [First line:] To the o blessed saviour --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n7/mode/2up
Allen [First line:] Lone and still beside the stremlet --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n9/mode/2up
Bethlehem [First line:] Now I have found the ground --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n9/mode/2up
They are gone from the mountain home [First line:] They are gone from the mountain home --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n11/mode/2up
The bird in spring [First line:] With your singing pleasure bringing --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n13/mode/2up
Zephyr's song [First line:] Pretty little zephyr's we --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n13/mode/2up
Blue birds song [First line:] I dwelt in climes where flowers bloom --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n15/mode/2up
Unity [First line:] When shall we meet again --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n17/mode/2up
Infant praises [First line:] Children of Jerusalem sung the praise of Jesus name --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n19/mode/2up
The journey [First line:] A youth resolved to see the world --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n21/mode/2up
Land of rest --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n25/mode/2up
Clinton --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n25/mode/2up
We are but young --: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n25/mode/2up
Hilltown: https://archive.org/stream/WilsonBoehmBook/MUMSS-00131#page/n25/mode/2up
Subject(s):Music -- Manuscripts.
Popular music -- To 1901.
Sacred songs.
Notation:Shape note
Notes:1 musical copybook consisting of 17 pieces including popular and sacred songs with shape note notation.
Entries in several different hands and inks including some notation in pencil.
Title assigned by cataloger from cover and page [40].
Inscription on cover reads, "W Boehm, 1854".
Copybook "manufactured and sold by Thos. R. Weber".
Page [1] is embossed with "Victoria Mills".
Page [40] is inscribed, "Wilson Boehm 1854" and "Wilson H Boehm".
Wrappers illustrated with a variety of woodcuts and an alphabet.
One page bears a school commencement program, listing addresses, recitations, school exercises and songs, and identifying the students that performed them.
Shape note.
Web Site:
Accession No.:07-027
Item ID:MUMSS-00131
