“Raft Song,” for voice and piano, was published by Boston Music Co. in Four Songs, op. 5. Two incomplete sketches and an additional sketch in Nevin’s manuscript book (no. 1) are found in the Ethelbert Nevin Collection.
WARNING: This is a blackface minstrel song, a genre that features demeaning caricatures rooted in racism and white supremacy.
“Ring, Ring de Banjo!” was entered for copyright on April 21, 1851, and deposited on April 29, 1851.
For SATB choir and piano.
For bass soloist and piano. The original sheet music indicates that it was “first sung by Percy M. Johnson of Pittsburgh, Pa.”
Adolph M. Foerster’s Romance et Mélodie, op. 17, for violin and piano was published by Schuberth in 1891.
The manuscript in the William Oetting Collection is dated January 19, 1900.
The song “The Rosary,” by Ethelbert Nevin, was published in 1898.
