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View of Cayuga Lake from Cornell University "Far Above Cayuga's Waters" is Cornell University's alma mater.The lyrics were written circa 1870 by roommates Archibald Croswell Weeks (Class of 1872), and Wilmot Moses Smith (Class of 1874), and set to the tune of "Annie Lisle", a popular 1857 ballad by H. S. Thompson about a heroine dying of tuberculosis.
They used World War I parabola molds from the Cornell Physics Department. In 1940, Albert R. Brand produced an extensive bird song field guide album "American Bird Songs". The sales of phonograph records of bird sounds remained a key source of income for the Lab of Ornithology since these days. [3]
From 1911 to 1912 he went on an expedition to Colombia, and from 1912 to 1916, he was appointed an instructor in zoology at Cornell. Former stockbroker Albert R. Brand was one of his graduate students. Brand collaborated with Cornell's engineering department to record bird songs, publishing two books accompanied by photographs. [2]
This is a list of traditional songs associated with Cornell University. Most of the songs were popularized by, and were written by members or alumni of, the Cornell Glee Club, Cornell's tenor-bass chorus. Most formal concerts of the Glee Club or Cornell Chorus conclude with selections of Cornell songs.
Musicologists such as Matthew Head and Suzannah Clark believe that birdsong has had a large though admittedly unquantifiable influence on the development of music. [2] [3] Birdsong has influenced composers in several ways: they can be inspired by birdsong; [4] they can intentionally imitate bird song in a composition; [4] they can incorporate recordings of birds into their works; [5] or they ...
Cornell University Chorus women performing at a Christmas Open House, c. 1950 The Cornell University Chorus was founded at Cornell University in 1920 as the Cornell Women's Glee Club . [ 1 ] The chorus is a 60-member treble choir with a repertoire that includes masses, motets, spirituals, classical , folk , 20th-century music , and traditional ...
Tee Fee Crane and "Davy" in the 1910s "Give My Regards to Davy" is Cornell University's primary fight song.The song's lyrics were written in 1905 by Cornell alumni Charles E. Tourison (1905), W. L. Umstad (1906), and Bill Forbes (1906), a trio of roommates at Beta Theta Pi, and set to the tune of George M. Cohan's "Give My Regards to Broadway".
The Cornell University Glee Club (CUGC), founded in 1868, is the oldest student organization at Cornell University. The CUGC is a thirty-nine member chorus for tenor and bass voices, with repertoire including classical , folk , 20th-century music , and traditional Cornell songs .