Where Can I Find Music by Augusta Browne?
Here you will find current links (2023) to open-access databases that include nineteenth-century imprints of sheet music by Augusta Browne. I prefer to use original imprints like these to perform Browne’s music, although I have made Finale transcriptions of all her music.
The entries are arranged by genre (piano solos and duets; songs; hymns), then alphabetically by title. Some compositions have two or more online sources, so the links are attached to each specific source. Appendix 3 of my biography of the composer lists additional resources and archival holdings for Browne’s sheet music not available online.
How Can I Hear Music by Augusta Browne?
Links to online performances of music by Augusta Browne are included along with the titles below. Look for “Listen to the Music.” Some renditions are recorded performances, others are audio files generated from Finale.
Piano Solos and Duets
The American Bouquet
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Internet Archive
- See also “Augusta Browne’s American Bouquet,” Parts 1 and 2
- Listen to the music
April Gallop
- Published in the Journal of the Fine Arts [2,] no. 42 (April 15, 1851): [39]–40 HathiTrust Digital Library
Arietta Napolitana SEE The Celebrated Napolitan Air with Variations
Brilliant Introduction & Variations on the Favorite Air, “Still so Gently o’er Me Stealing,” No. 23
La brise dans le feuillage. Romance [inner page title: Romanza]
Caledonia SEE Lays of Caledonia
The Celebrated Napolitan Air “Le Voglio Bene Assai” with Variations [inner page title: Arietta Napolitana. With Variations], Op. 79
Chant d’amour (Song of Love). Tableau musical, Op. 81
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860 (missing first two pages of music)
Chant of the Sea—Transcription
Columbian Quick-Step
- Published in Columbian Magazine 2, no. 6 (December 1844): 284–86 HathiTrust Digital Library
- See also “Getting to Know Augusta Browne from Old Magazines”
- Listen to the music
The Cornet Grand Waltz [inner page title: Cornet Waltz]
Crystal Palace Waltz
- Published in New York Musical World and Times 7, no. 14 (December 3, 1853): 53–56 HathiTrust Digital Library
The De Meyer Grand Waltz, a Musical Jeu d’esprit, Oeuvre 73
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860
- Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
- HathiTrust Digital Library
Fantasia and Variations on a Celebrated Air, a la Russe Vesper Hymn, Op. 35
La gazelle, valse brillante
German Air, with Variations for the Piano-Forte
- Published in Columbian Magazine 4, no. 5 (November 1845): 236–37 HathiTrust Digital Library
Grande marche arabique, Oeuvre 74
The Haunted Spring, with Variations, No. 21
L’Henri, Gallop Brillante, No. 45 [duet]
The Iris Waltz
Jenny Lind’s Dream, Valse Brillante
Lays of Caledonia [Strains of Many Lands, no. 1, Caledonia]
The Merry Mountain Horn, with variations for the piano forte or harp, No. 19
The Mexican Volunteers Quickstep (same music as Columbian Quickstep)
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860
- SEE also “Getting to Know Augusta Browne from Old Magazines”
La mignonnette. A Romance, with Variations, No. 75
Napolitan Air SEE Arietta Napolitana with Variations
Strains of Many Lands SEE The Lays of Caledonia
Variations on a Favorite Air from the Opera of Lo Zangara (The Gypsie’s Wild Chant), No. 11
Songs
“Attention, ye Freemen” (arr. to “Garibaldi Hymn”)
- Hayes & Wheeler Song Book, pp. 14–15
“Autumn of Love”
“The Babes in the Wood”
“Bird of the Gentle Wing,” No. 20
- Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
- Indiana Memory
- Also abridged version published in Godey’s Lady’s Book, 23, no. 6 (December 1841): 290–91 HathiTrust Digital Library; and The World We Live In 2, no. 1 (January 4, 1845): 8 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Bonnie Bessie Green ”
- Irish Sheet Music Archives
- Internet Archive (cover only)
“A Chaunt of Home”
- Published in Musical Review and World 14 (August 15, 1863): supplement 66–67 HathiTrust Digital Library
- Google Books
The City of Delight
- Published in The Precious Stones of the Heavenly Foundations (New York: Sheldon and Company, 1859), front matter
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Internet Archive
“The Courier Dove”
- Published in Columbian Magazine 9, no. 4 (April 1848): 191–92 HathiTrust Digital Library
- IMSLP
“An Empty Sleeve”
- Hayes & Wheeler Song Book, p. 23
“Fair Geraldine, A Serenade Duett”
“Fairest Flower so Palely Drooping”
- http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2009632745/ (cover only)
“The Family Bible”
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860
- University of Virginia Special Collections
“The Family Meeting”
“The Fisher Boy’s Song”
“The Flag of the Union Floats”
- Hayes & Wheeler Song Book, p. 29
“Forever Thine. Ballad”
“The Glorious Ensign”
- Hayes & Wheeler Song Book, p. 35
“I Watch for Thee”
- Published in Columbian Magazine 2, no. 3 (September 1844): 141–43 HathiTrust Digital Library
“I Would I Were a Fairy”
“Mary Lyle Ballad”
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860
- IMSLP
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Internet Archive
“The Merry Sleigh Bell”
- Published in Sartain’s Union Magazine 2, no. 2 (February 1848): 92–93 HathiTrust Digital Library
“The Music We Love Most”
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860
- IMSLP
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Internet Archive
“The Nation Calls”
“The Nation’s Best Hope”
- Hayes & Wheeler Song Book, pp. 17–19
“New England Churches”
- Published in Columbian Magazine 1, no. 3 (March 1844): 143–44 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Oh Lassie Dear! I maun awa’. Ballad”
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860
- SEE also “The Soldier’s Departure”
“The Old Clock’s Warning. Ballad”
“The Olden Time for Me! Song”
“Once Upon a Time”
“The Orange Bough”
“Persian Lover’s Song”
- Published in Columbian Magazine 7, no. 6 (June 1847): 281–82 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Pleasure! Naught but Pleasure”
- Published in Columbian Magazine 6, no. 2 (July 1846): 44–45 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Poetry” [inner page title: “Poetry. Ballad”]
“Reply of the Messenger Bird”
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860
- IMSLP
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Internet Archive
“Requiem” SEE “A Thought of the Departed”
“The Seaman’s Night Song”
“The Soldier’s Departure”
- Published in Sartain’s Union Magazine 1, no. 4 (October 1847): 188–89 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Song for New England” [inner page title: “Song of New England”]
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860
- Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection
- Listen to the music
“Song of Christiana”
“Song of Mercy”
“The Song of the Skylark,” No. 16
“Speed, Gallant Bark!”
- Published in Sartain’s Union Magazine 2, no. 4 (April 1848): 188–89 HathiTrust Digital Library
“The Stranger’s Heart,” No. 14
- Published in Godey’s Magazine 22, no. 1 (January 1841): 38–39 [symphonies at beginning and end have been cut] HathiTrust Digital Library
“A Thought of the Departed” [inner page title: “Requiem”]
“‘Vive le Republique!!’ America to France”
- Published in Columbian Magazine 9, no. 6 (June 1848): 287–88 HathiTrust Digital Library
“The Voice of Spring,” No. 9
“Wake, Lady Mine. Serenade”
- Published in Columbian Magazine 4, no. 3 (September 1845): 142–43 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Wake, Poland, Awake!”
- Published in Sartain’s Union Magazine 3, no. 1 (July 1848): 44–45 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Wake, Sons of Columbia!”
- Hayes & Wheeler Song Book, p. 13
“The Warlike Dead in Mexico”
“We’ll Fight the Traitors to the Death”
- Hayes & Wheeler Song Book, pp. 24–25
“When the Rosy Morn Appearing—Trio”
- Published in Journal of the Fine Arts n.s. [2,] no. 44 (May 15, 1851): 82–83 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Who Has Not a Ship at Sea?”
- Getty Images (cover only)
“Where Quair Runs Sweet amang the Flowers”
- Published in Columbian Magazine 9, no. 1 (January, 1848): 46–47 HathiTrust Digital Library
“The Youth’s Parting Song” [duet]
- Published in Sartain’s Union Magazine 7, no. 2 (August 1850): [66–67] HathiTrust Digital Library
“The Youth’s Parting Song” [solo]
- Published in Musical World and Times 9, no. 17 (August 26, 1854): Supplement 58–59, “Music by our Subscribers. No. 21” HathiTrust Digital Library
Hymns
“Advent Hymn”
- Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine 8, no. 6 (December 1880): 760 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Day of Judgment, Day of Wonders!”
- Published in Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine 11, no. 2 (February 1882): 224 HathiTrust Digital Library
Esperanza. C.M.D.
- Published in Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine 9, no. 3 (March 1881): 384 HathiTrust Digital Library
- (Music same as “St. George’s,” published in the Message Bird 1, no. 6 (October 15, 1849): [99])
“Grand Vesper Chorus”
- [This is vol. 1, no. 3, of B[enjamin] Wyman and George P. Newell, Library of Sacred Music (New York: Wyman and Newell, 1846)]
- Music for the Nation: American Sheet Music, ca. 1820–1860 (images 1–3)
“I Have a Glorious Hope”
- Published in Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine 7, no. 3 (March, 1880): 384 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep. The Christian Slumber-Song.”
- Published in Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine 8, no. 2 (August 1880): 256 HathiTrust Digital Library
“Song of the Shepherd Boy”
- Published in Frank Leslie’s Sunday Magazine 10, no. 4 (October 1881): 464 HathiTrust Digital Library