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Henry Worrall composed and arranged Sebastopol, a solo parlor guitar piece, and published it in 1860 with A.C. Peters & J.L. Peters, music publishers, Cincinnati, Ohio. The piece was very popular throughout the nineteenth century. Worrall intended the piece to be an imitation of a military bugle and band. In the early twentieth century, Worrall's popular guitar instrumentals played a key role in the development of the guitar styles of southern rural folk musicians and country and blues musical idioms. Worrall moved to Topeka, Kansas, in 1868 where he died in 1902.
Creator: Worrall, Henry, 1825-1902
Date: 1860
Item Number: 208635
Call Number: Library Collection No. 23
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 208635
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Musicians
Collections - Library
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Music - Musical instruments - Guitar
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Music - Musical styles - Blues
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Music - Musical styles - Classical
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Music - Musical styles - Country
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Music - Musical styles - Folk
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Music - Musical styles - Popular
Community Life - Arts and Entertainment - Music - Musicians - Composers
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Sheet music
People - Notable Kansans - Worrall, Henry, 1825-1902
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Places - Other States - Ohio - Cincinnati
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Printed materials - Sheet music
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