Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln and Music: Political Songs; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources Aybe we couldn't find a pearl in aplate of tapioca. Maybe there's been a lot written about Lincoln music and we just haven't caught up with it yet, because we thought every phase of his life had been poked over by experts. There's one exception. In The Etude for February, 1938, there's a good story on Lincoln music by Pearl Brown Brands. It by no means exhausts the subject but it views things in the round and contains some facts for which we are grateful. Most of the following is from the Etude article. More than five hundred pieces of music have been written about Lincoln, more than about any other great national figure. They reflect nearly every important event of his life from his nomination to his funeral. Lincoln musical pieces constitute an obbligato to the history of the Civil War, writes Miss (or Mrs.) Brands, who goes on to say that at no other period in this country's history have musical publish ing houses been so influential in building and reflecting pub lic opinion. It is an example of the wisdom of the famous saying of Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun: Give me the mak ing of the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.