About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Then comes the sad awakening

Then comes the sad awakening

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Music Division

  • The importance and propriety of a better system of musical education
  • La cambiale di matrimonio
  • In love, if love be love : Vivian's song
  • Juvenile songs, religious, moral, and sentimental
  • The Giants of 1908
  • Octandre
  • Trois caprices pour le violon, op. 20
  • Stage coach
  • Sonata for viola and piano
  • Collection of organ music, chiefly fugues
  • The Horace Greeley campaign songster
  • Pièces de clavecin
  • Hayes & Wheeler song book
  • The Jubilee Songs, chorusses, &c.;
  • Commonplace book of songs
Previous Next

COLLECTION
American popular songs

View as book

SUB-COLLECTION
Sheet music, 1896

View as book

This Item

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Then comes the sad awakening
Additional title: A maid and youth were lovesr, in the long ago. [first line]
Additional title: Then comes the sad awakening, the pangs of deep regret. [first line]
Names
Rutledge, Gertrude (Singer)
Harris, Chas. K. (Charles Kassell), 1867-1930 (Composer)
Harris, Chas. K. (Charles Kassell), 1867-1930 (Lyricist)
Clauder, Jos. (Joseph), 1853-1913 (Arranger)
Collection

American popular songs

Sheet music, 1896

Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1896
Place: New York
Publisher: Chas. K. Harris
Library locations
Music Division
Topics
Songs
Separation (Psychology)
Quarreling
Man-woman relationships
Regret
Genres
Scores
Notes
Content: On cover: Sung by Gertrude Rutledge at Hammerstein's Victoria Roof Garden New York. Cover includes a photograph of Gertrude Rutledge in profile.
Content: Published as the musical supplement to the New York Journal and Advertiser, September 24, 1899, pages 13-16.
Content: Summary: Two lovers have a quarrel; the man tries to reconcile but the woman will not, so they are separated, yet she longs to be forgiven. Years later the man is dead, and the woman, now old, has never been able to marry, and still remembers her love with regret.
Statement of responsibility: words and music by Charles K. Harris.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 score (6 p.) ; 36 cm.
Type of Resource
Notated music
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b10826013
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b21757455
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): aba1e220-c591-012f-40f7-58d385a7bc34
Rights Statement
The New York Public Library believes that this item is in the public domain under the laws of the United States, but did not make a determination as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. This item may not be in the public domain under the laws of other countries. Though not required, if you want to credit us as the source, please use the following statement, "From The New York Public Library," and provide a link back to the item on our Digital Collections site. Doing so helps us track how our collection is used and helps justify freely releasing even more content in the future.

Item timeline of events

  • 1896: Issued
  • 2016: Digitized
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Then comes the sad awakening" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1896. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-16f8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Chicago/Turabian Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. "Then comes the sad awakening" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-16f8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

APA Format

Music Division, The New York Public Library. (1896). Then comes the sad awakening Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-16f8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47de-16f8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99 | title= (notated music) Then comes the sad awakening, (1896) |author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 25, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Then comes the sad awakening