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The Banjo, 1855 sheet music cover published by William Hall & Son.. The Banjo, Op. 15, is a composition for piano by the American composer Louis Moreau Gottschalk.Composed in 1853, it is one of Gottschalk's best-known works.
The song was published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder, Co. of New York, New York. Artist Albert Wilfred Barbelle designed the sheet music cover. It features Uncle Sam playing a snare drum with an eagle on his shoulder. In the background are ships sailing, and below are troops marching. Above the title, it reads, "The Official Recruiting Song."
George Lyons was the stage name for Dominick George Martoccio (b. 26 June 1889, New York City – d. 31 January 1958, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida). [8] [9] [10] In his life he was a Vaudeville performer, a composer, and a movie actor.
19th-century, American, minstrel music, popular music, war songs: 29,000 American popular music spanning the years 1780–1980. Johns Hopkins University: Library and Archives Canada: Sheet Music From Canada's Past: Canadian, popular music: 20,000 Patriotic and parlour songs, piano pieces, sacred music, and novelty numbers published from before ...
The reviewer said, "Mr. Wm. A. Huntley is the only banjo artist in the country that has ever made a success in white face." [24] Huntley was among the first to use the term classic banjo to describe his music. The phrase today means a style of playing the banjo bare fingered, picking out the notes with two fingers and a thumb.
"Dueling Banjos" is a bluegrass composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith.The song was composed in 1954 [2] by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos"; it contained riffs from Smith, recorded in 1955 playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno.
A composer, he arranged classical music for the 5-string banjo. [3] He taught the banjo as a music teacher and wrote a musical method, Practical Fingering for the Banjo, originally published in serial. [4] For about two years he was part of the Gregory Trio, consisting of himself, W. B. Farmer and Charles Van Baar. [5] Gregory arranged European ...
Samuel Swaim Stewart (January 8, 1855—April 6, 1898), also known as S. S. Stewart, was a musician, composer, publisher, and manufacturer of banjos. [3] He owned the S. S. Stewart Banjo Company, which was one of the largest banjo manufacturers in the 1890s, manufacturing tens-of-thousands of banjos annually. [4]