Details
- Instrument:
- Piano Tenor Voice Soprano Voice
- Genres:
- Americana
- Composers:
- Francis Hopkinson
- Series:
- The Lester S. Levy Collection
SKU: LV.13730
Composed by Francis Hopkinson. Portraits, Contentment. Lester S. Levy Collection. 6 pages.The First American Song, "My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free. Composed by Francis Hopkinson (1737-1791). Edited and Augmented by Harold Vincent Milligan. Published 1918 by The Arthur P. Schmidt Co. in Boston. Composition of through-composed with piano and voice (soprano or tenor) instrumentation. Subject headings for this piece include Portraits, Contentment. First line reads "My days have been so wondrous free, The little birds that fly With careless ease from tree to tree.".
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- Series:
- The Lester S. Levy Collection
- Instrument:
- Piano and Keyboard Piano Vocal Voice Tenor Voice Vocal Voice Soprano Voice
- Artists:
- Francis Hopkinson