Compositions with George Frederick Root as composer
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Creators | Key | Opus | Composed | Instrumentation | Period/style | Type | Listen | Code |
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| The Lord Is My Light (Der Herr ist mein Licht) | George Frederick Root, composer | mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Sacred choruses |  |
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| The Story of a Musical Life (An Autobiography) | George Frederick Root, composer | Romantic | Autobiographies, Music history | |
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| The Musical Curriculum (The Musical Curriculum: for solid and symmetrical acquirement in Piano-forte playing, singing, and harmony; containing copious and carefully Progressive exercises, pieces, songs, technics, solfeggios, and etudes, in all the keys. In which are studied and practiced chords and their progressions, transposition, modulation and accompanying. To which are prefixed A Method of teaching and a glossary of musical terms and signs. By Geo. F. Root) | George Frederick Root, composer | piano voice voice and piano |
Romantic | Methods, Music theory | |
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| Phyllis, the Farmer's Daughter (An Operatic Cantata) | George Frederick Root, composer Clara Louise Burnham, librettist |
voices, mixed chorus and orchestra | Romantic | Secular cantatas | |
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| The New Choir and Congregation (The New Choir and Congregation: A Collection of Hymns, Tunes, Anthems, Chants, and Responsive Services for The Choir and "All The People." by Geo. F. Root.) | George Frederick Root, composer | 4 voices mixed chorus soprano, alto, tenor and bass |
Romantic | Hymns, Psalms, Anthems, Chants, Liturgies | |
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| The Pilgrim Fathers (The Pilgrim Fathers; a cantata in two parts composed by George F. Root. Assisted in the preparation of the words by Miss Frances J. Crosby, the blind poetess.) | George Frederick Root, composer Fanny Crosby, librettist |
voices, mixed chorus and organ | Romantic | Secular cantatas | |
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| Rosalie the Prairie Flower | George Frederick Root, composer Fanny Crosby, librettist |
voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Mary of the glen | George Frederick Root, composer Charles G. Eastman, librettist |
voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| The Battle Cry of Freedom (Rally 'Round the Flag) | George Frederick Root, composer | B flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Look on the Bright Side | George Frederick Root, composer | B flat major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| A Hundred Years Ago | George Frederick Root, composer | C major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Ballads | |
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| Mother, Sweet Mother, Why Linger Away? (Duett) | George Frederick Root, composer Fanny Crosby, librettist |
B flat major | soprano, alto and piano | Romantic | Duets | |
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| See the Sky Is Darkling (A Descriptive Song) | George Frederick Root, composer | C major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| The Voice of Love (Cavatina) | George Frederick Root, composer William Leman Rede, librettist |
A flat major | voice and piano | Romantic | Cavatinas | |
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| Early Lost, Early Saved | George Frederick Root, composer George Washington Bethune, librettist |
E flat major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Gently, Gently Wake the Song (Serenade) | George Frederick Root, composer | A flat major | 2 tenors and 2 basses male chorus |
Romantic | Serenades | |
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| Pictures of Memory | George Frederick Root, composer Alice Cary, librettist |
A flat major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| The Father's Coming | George Frederick Root, composer Mary Howitt, librettist |
D major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| The Reaper on the Plain | George Frederick Root, composer Charles G. Eastman, librettist |
F major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| The Time of the Heart (Ballad) | George Frederick Root, composer Charles Swain, librettist |
G major | voice and piano | Romantic | Ballads | |
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| They Sleep in the Dust | George Frederick Root, composer | B flat major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Dearest Brother We Miss Thee | George Frederick Root, composer | G major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Bye and Bye | George Frederick Root, composer | D major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| My Prairie Home | George Frederick Root, composer | G major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| There's Music in the Air | George Frederick Root, composer | A flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Never Forget the Dear Ones | George Frederick Root, composer | A flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Dreaming Ever Dreaming | George Frederick Root, composer | C major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Who'll Save the Left? (A Battle Scene) | George Frederick Root, composer Russell Tompkins, librettist |
F major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Within the Sound of the Enemy's Guns | George Frederick Root, composer | C major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Brother, Tell Me of the Battle | George Frederick Root, composer Thomas Manahan, librettist |
D major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Kiss Me Mother, Kiss Your Darling | George Frederick Root, composer | C major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Farewell Father, Friend and Guardian | George Frederick Root, composer | C major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Sing Me to Sleep Father | George Frederick Root, composer Eben Eugene Rexford, librettist |
C major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Starved in Prison | George Frederick Root, composer | B flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| If Maggie Were My Own | George Frederick Root, composer Samuel Hawkins Marshall Byers, librettist |
E flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Somewhere! | George Frederick Root, composer Mary Bridges Canedy, librettist |
B flat major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Poverty Flat (Her Letter) | George Frederick Root, composer | G major | voice and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Farewell Beloved Friends, Farewell | George Frederick Root, composer | F major | 4 voices and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Hear the Cry That Comes Across the Sea | George Frederick Root, composer | B flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Passing Through the Fire | George Frederick Root, composer | G minor | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Sacred songs | |
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| Lost and Saved | George Frederick Root, composer | A flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Hear! Hear! The Shout! (The People's Army) | George Frederick Root, composer | A major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| The Star of Bethlehem | George Frederick Root, composer Henry Kirke White, librettist |
D flat major | soprano, alto, tenor, bass and piano | Romantic | Sacred songs | |
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| Down the Line | George Frederick Root, composer Albert Kimsey Owen, librettist |
G major | bass and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Price of a Drink (A Descriptive Song with Quartet or Chorus Interludes) | George Frederick Root, composer Josephine Pollard, librettist |
D major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| The Beautiful Maiden Just Over the Way | George Frederick Root, composer Thomas Rogers, librettist |
G major | voice and piano voice, mixed chorus and piano |
Romantic | Songs | |
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| Only Waiting | George Frederick Root, composer | F major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Sacred songs | |
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| The Vacant Chair (We shall meet but we shall miss him) | George Frederick Root, composer Henry Stevenson Washburn, librettist |
A flat major | 1861 | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| The Fall of Babylon (Belshazzars's Feast / A Dramatic Cantata) | George Frederick Root, composer Benjamin Franklin Edmands, librettist |
voices and orchestra | Romantic | Secular cantatas | |
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| Just Before the Battle Mother | George Frederick Root, composer | B flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Just After the Battle (Song & Chorus) | George Frederick Root, composer | F major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Early 20th century | Songs | |
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| De Day ob Liberty's Comin' (Wurzel's Liberty Song) | George Frederick Root, composer | B flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Glory! Glory! (Little Octoroon / Song and Chorus) | George Frederick Root, composer | B flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! (The Prisoners Hope) | George Frederick Root, composer | B flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| On, on, on, the Boys Came Marching! (The Prisoner Free) | George Frederick Root, composer | G major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| Home Again Returning (Quartette) | George Frederick Root, composer Mattie Winfield, librettist |
E flat major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Quartets, Songs | |
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| They've Sold Me Down the River (The Negro Father's Lament / Song and Chorus) | George Frederick Root, composer | F major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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| The Hazel Dell | George Frederick Root, composer | G major | voice, mixed chorus and piano | Romantic | Songs | |
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