"Rock'd In the Cradle of the Deep"

sheet music

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS & SHEET MUSIC
Willard, Emma C. Hart; Knight, Joseph Philip; Charles Sheard. & Co.; Wray
England, London
circa 1839
paper

Sheet music, "Rock'd In the Cradle of the Deep"; poetry by Mrs. [Emma C. Hart] Willard (1787-1870); music by J[oseph] P[hilip] Knight; published London by C. Sheard Musical Bouquet Office, circa 1839; cover engraved by Wray in various scrolls and typefaces with illustration of shipwreck; handwritten in ink upper right "Fanny [last name illegible]"; cover page only. Mrs. Willard, headmistress of the Troy Female Seminary, Troy, NY, from 1821, wrote this song while on an ocean voyage. It was introduced by Knight at a concert in New York City, 1839 (Ref: S. M. Frank.). (Duplicates and near duplicates: 1992.20.1, 1998.103.2, 1999.8.14, 2004.12.11, 2004.61.54-57, 2005.29.14, 2006.59.34, 2007.63.8, 2008.93.15)


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