B-Flat Trumpet, Bb Trumpet, Piano, Trumpet - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1882322
Composed by John Hill Hewitt. Arranged by Jari A. Villanueva. This edition: pdf, streaming. 19th Century, Classical, Patriotic. Score and part. 7 pages. JV MUSIC #1441080. Published by JV MUSIC (A0.1882322).
“Rock Me to Sleep, Mother” for Cornet and Piano, was one of the most popular American ballads of the Civil War era. John Hill Hewitt composed the music in 1861, setting a poem by Elizabeth Akers Allen, who wrote under the pen name Florence Percy. Hewitt, sometimes called the “Bard of the Confederacy,” helped bring the song into wide circulation.
Popular with soldiers on both sides of the conflict, the song offers a layered meditation on motherhood, memory, and longing for home. Its opening lines—“Backward, turn backward, Oh! time in your flight / Make me a child again just for tonight”—express the nostalgia and emotional vulnerability that made it especially resonant during wartime. Like many widely loved songs of the Civil War period, “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother” emphasized home, family, memory, and consolation rather than military victory. It circulated broadly in sheet music, songsters, camp singing, and instrumental arrangements, giving both soldiers and civilians a way to voice homesickness and grief.
The tune also survives in the books of the 26th North Carolina Regimental Band. This particular arrangement derives from one prepared by William Hartwell of the 16th Mississippi Regimental Band for the 26th North Carolina Band. Hartwell served as a music teacher and supplied arrangements for the ensemble.
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B-Flat Trumpet, Bb Trumpet, Piano, Trumpet - Digital Download
SKU: A0.1882322
Composed by John Hill Hewitt. Arranged by Jari A. Villanueva. This edition: pdf, streaming. 19th Century, Classical, Patriotic. Score and part. 7 pages. JV MUSIC #1441080. Published by JV MUSIC (A0.1882322).
“Rock Me to Sleep, Mother” for Cornet and Piano, was one of the most popular American ballads of the Civil War era. John Hill Hewitt composed the music in 1861, setting a poem by Elizabeth Akers Allen, who wrote under the pen name Florence Percy. Hewitt, sometimes called the “Bard of the Confederacy,” helped bring the song into wide circulation.
Popular with soldiers on both sides of the conflict, the song offers a layered meditation on motherhood, memory, and longing for home. Its opening lines—“Backward, turn backward, Oh! time in your flight / Make me a child again just for tonight”—express the nostalgia and emotional vulnerability that made it especially resonant during wartime. Like many widely loved songs of the Civil War period, “Rock Me to Sleep, Mother” emphasized home, family, memory, and consolation rather than military victory. It circulated broadly in sheet music, songsters, camp singing, and instrumental arrangements, giving both soldiers and civilians a way to voice homesickness and grief.
The tune also survives in the books of the 26th North Carolina Regimental Band. This particular arrangement derives from one prepared by William Hartwell of the 16th Mississippi Regimental Band for the 26th North Carolina Band. Hartwell served as a music teacher and supplied arrangements for the ensemble.
This product was created by a member of ArrangeMe, Hal Leonard's global
self-publishing community of independent composers, arrangers, and songwriters.
ArrangeMe allows for the publication of unique arrangements of both popular
titles and original compositions from a wide variety of voices and backgrounds.
About Digital Downloads
Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on
your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music,
you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and
you don't have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!
PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page
that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are
only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not
digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not
print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).
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