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Social Orchestra

 

The Social Orchestra consists of eighty-three pages of music presenting various  instrumental arrangements of popular airs of the day, melodies of 
well-known operas, arrangements of Foster's own 
songs, and several new instrumental works composed by Foster himself.

For a complete list of Foster's songs please go here.


Agatha
music: Franz Abt

 

Air by de Beriot
music: Charles Aguste de Beriot

 

Air from "Preciosa"
music: Carl Maria von Weber

 

Anadolia
music: Foster

 

Bridal Waltz
music: Louis Antoine Jullien

 

Broadway Quickstep
music: Josef Gung'l

 

Byerly's Waltz
music: William Byerly

 

Cally Polka
music: anonymous

 

Come Where the Fountains Play
music: Donizetti

 

Commence Ye Darkeys All
music: W.D. Corrister

 

Coral Schottisch
music: Henry Kleber

 

Crystal Schottisch
music: William Byerly

 

Duett from "Lucia di Lammermoor";
music: Donizetti

 

Evening Star Waltz
music: Joseph Franz Karl Lanner

 

French Quadrilles
music: Tolbeuque

 

French Quadrille No. 2
music: Bosissio

 

French Quadrille No. 3
music: Bosissio

 

French Quadrille No. 4
music: Tolbeuque

 

French Quadrille No. 5
music: anonymous

 

Gems from Lucia No. 1
music: Donizetti

 

Gems from Lucia No. 2
music: Donizetti

 

Gems from Lucia No. 3
music: Donizetti

 

Gems from Lucia No. 4
music: Donizetti

 

Gems from Lucia No. 5
music: Donizetti

 

Happy Land
music: Edward Francis Rimbault

 

Hohnstock Polka
music: Adele Hohnstock

 

I Love the Merry Sunshine
music: Stephen Glover

 

I'd Offer Thee This Hand of Mine
music: L. Thayer Chadwick

 

Introduction to Caliph of Bagdad
music: Francois Adrien Boiedieu

 

Irene
music: Foster

 

Italian Melodies No. 1
music: Giuseppe Marco Maria Felice Blangini

 

Italian Melodies No. 2
music: Donizetti

 

Italian Melodies No. 3
music: Ferdinando Bertoni

 

Italian Melodies No. 5
music: Mozart

 

Jennie's Own Schottisch
music: Foster

 

Katy Darling
music: Vincenzo Bellini

 

La Serenade
music: Schubert

 

Love Launched a Fairy Boat
music: James Howard Tully

 

Make Me No Gaudy Chaplet Now
music: Donizetti

 

March from the Daughter of the Regiment
music: Donizetti

 

Maria Redowa
music: Donizetti

 

Nancy Till
music: anonymous

 

O Summer Night!
music: Donizetti

 

O Would I Were a Boy Again
music: Frank Romer

 

Old Pine Tree, The
music: Charles White

 

On the Banks of the Guadalquiver
music: Louis Henry Lavenu

 

On to the Field of Glory
music: Donizetti

 

Pearl Polka
music: Henry Kleber

 

Pirate's Chorus
music: Michael William Balfe

 

Rainbow Schottisch
music: Henry Kleber

 

Roll On , Silver Moon
music: Jane Sloman

 

Saratoga Lake Waltz
music: Frederick C. Grambs

 

Scenes That Are the Brightest
music: William Vincent Wallace

 

Sontag Polka
music: Giulio Alary

 

Thou Art Gone from My Gaze
music: George Linley

 

Ton Mahrchen Waltz
music: Josef Gung'l

 

Twilight Song
music: Henry Pond

 

Village Festival Quadrilles
music: Foster

 

Wait for the Wagon
music: anonymous

 

Waltz by Beethoven
music: anonymous

 

Waltz by Lanner
music: Joseph Franz Karl Lanner

 

Waltz by Strauss
music: Johann Strauss, Jr.

 

Where Are the Friends of My Youth
music: George Arthur Barker

 

Widow Machree
music: Samuel Lover

 

Wild Haunts for Me, The
music: anonymous

 

Will You Come to My Mountain Home
music: Francis H. Brown

 

Will You Love Me Then, As Now?
music: Francis Weiland

 

Would I Were Thee
music: Carlo Bosetti

 

 


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last updated April 13, 2020