Mark Twain’s America—Vintage American “Heart Songs” and Dance Tunes for Piano

Medley: Love’s Old Sweet Song (Just a Song at Twilight) (music: James Lynam Molloy; words: G. Clifton Bingham; 1884); Sweet Genevieve (music: Henry Tucker; words: George Cooper, 1869)

18th-c. Scottish Reels: Miss Dumbreck; Miss Stevenson’s Reel (R. Mackintosh) 

‘Tis the Last Rose of Summer (words: Thomas Moore, tune: Irish trad.)

Hornpipes (trad.): Fisher’s Saratoga, Good for the Tongue, Cincinnati

Beautiful Dreamer (Stephen Collins Foster, 1862)

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child (trad. African-American spiritual)

Civil War Recruiting Songs: The Bonnie Blue Flag (words: Harry Macarthy, 1861; tune: The Irish Jaunting Car; 1861); Abraham’s Daughter (Septimus Winner, 19th c.), with Mill-Town Maid (Ryan’s Collection 1050 Reels & Jigs, 19th c.)

Dixie (attributed to Dan Emmett, Ohio)

Little Carrie’s Favorite Gallop (Howe ballroom manual, 1859)

Gentle Annie (Stephen Collins Foster, 1856)

I Hear(d) from Heaven Today (Port Royal Island trad. spiritual) (from Slave Songs of the US, 1867, by Wm. Francis Allen, Lucy McKim Garrison, Charles Pickard Ware)

La Paloma (Sebastien Yradier, ca. 1863)

Nimrod, from The Enigma Variations (Edward Elgar, ca. 1898-99)

Maple Leaf Rag (Scott Joplin, 1899)

Waltz medley: The Flying Trapeze (George Leybourne, ca. 1867); A Bicycle Built for Two (Daisy Bell) (Harry Dacre, 1892); After the Ball (Charles K. Harris, 1892)