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Songs written or first produced in the decade 1880s, i.e the years 1880 to 1889. ... Pages in category "1880s songs" The following 3 pages are in this category, out ...
The "Battle Cry of Freedom", also known as "Rally 'Round the Flag", is a song written in 1862 by American composer George Frederick Root (1820–1895) during the American Civil War. A patriotic song advocating the causes of Unionism and abolitionism , it became so popular that composer H. L. Schreiner and lyricist W. H. Barnes adapted it for ...
Root's songs, particularly "The Battle Cry of Freedom", were popular among Union soldiers during the war. According to Henry Stone, a Union war veteran recalling in the late 1880s: A glee club came down from Chicago, bringing with them the new song, 'We'll rally 'round the flag, boys', and it ran through the camp like wildfire. The effect was ...
1880s songs (10 C, 3 P) Pages in category "1880s in music" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
They include hymns, military themes, national songs, and musical numbers from stage and screen, as well as others adapted from many poems. [2] Much of American patriotic music owes its origins to six main wars — the American Revolution , the American Indian Wars , the War of 1812 , the Mexican–American War , the American Civil War , and the ...
Pages in category "1880 songs" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Funiculì, Funiculà ...
John Lomax publishes a collection of cowboy songs, Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads, a ground-breaking publication that launched his career; [243] he is shortly afterwards elected president of the American Folklore Society. [244] This collection is the first of American folk songs to be printed with the music. [135]
The song became perhaps the most enduring of the era and reflects the bitter partisanship of border states like Maryland. It is eventually chosen as the state song of Maryland. [91] [92] The song is set to music later that year by members of the Baltimore Glee Club, including the prominent pro-Confederate Cary family, most famously Hetty Cary. [93]