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Heaven's Artillery: March Two Step is a war song composed by Harry J. Lincoln. The song was produced by Vandersloot Music Publishing Company in 1904. [1] The sheet music can be found at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library.
A War Song", originally called "A Soldier's Song", was a poem written by C. Flavell Hayward [1] and set to music by the English composer Edward Elgar in 1884. As A Soldier's Song , it was Elgar's first published song, appearing in Magazine of Music in 1890.
19th-century, American, minstrel music, popular music, war songs: 29,000 American popular music spanning the years 1780–1980. Johns Hopkins University: Library and Archives Canada: Sheet Music From Canada's Past: Canadian, popular music: 20,000 Patriotic and parlour songs, piano pieces, sacred music, and novelty numbers published from before ...
For years it was only known traditionally, and does not appear among the many anecdotic songs printed in France during the middle of the 18th century. Pierre Beaumarchais used the tune in his 1778 play The Marriage of Figaro for a despairing love song for Cherubino. [1] [2] In 1780 it became very popular.
American musicologist Barry Kernfeld, said that in the 1950s, "a million-selling sheet-music title was entirely a thing of the past". [9] From the album era, "Stairway to Heaven" (1971) by Led Zeppelin is the biggest selling piece of sheet music in rock history, with over one million copies sold, selling 15,000 units per year at some point. [21]
A brace is used to connect two or more lines of music that are played simultaneously, usually by a single player, generally when using a grand staff. The grand staff is used for piano, harp, organ, and some pitched percussion instruments. [1] The brace is occasionally called an accolade in some old texts and can vary in design and style. Bracket
The song "Belfast Brigade" using alternate lyrics is sung by the Lucky4 in support of the Irish Republican Army. The song "Up Went Nelson", celebrating the destruction of Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, is sung to this tune. The Discordian Handbook Principia Discordia has a version of the song called Battle Hymn of the Eristocracy. [52]
"An Overview of Music of the Civil War Era" Bugle Resounding. University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8131-2375-5. Lanning, Michael (2007). The Civil War 100. Sourcebooks. ISBN 978-1-4022-1040-2. McWhirter, Christian (2012). Battle Hymns: The Power and Popularity of Music in the Civil War. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina ...