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Title
Why did you leave me? : song and chorus / words and music by John T. Rutledge
Creator
Rutledge, John T
Composer
Rutledge, John T
Other
Date Created and/or Issued
c1877
Publication Information
Sherman & Hyde
San Francisco (Cor. of Kearny & Sutter Sts.)
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library
Collection
California Sheet Music Project
Rights Information
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Description
For vocalist, 4-part chorus (SATB), and piano.
Caption title.
Pages are unnumbered; p. [2] and [6] are blank.
"Author of 'I wants to see ole massa fo' I die'"--t.p.
First line of text: Why did you leave me? why did you grieve me?
First line of chorus: Why did you leave me? why did you grieve me?
Record created as part of the California Sheet Music Project.
Bound: No
Variant: No
Illustrated cover: No
Advertisements: No
Society of California Pioneers.
Type
image
Extent
1 score ([2], [3]-[5], [1] p.) ; 36 x 28 cm.
Identifier
csm_cubanc_54_1_00168222
Subject
Songs with piano
Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano
Lovesickness--Songs and music

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