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Queen Lili'uokalani : Original Sheet Music - "Aloha Oe (Farewell to Thee) by Queen Liliuokalani"

Sherman, Clay and Company, San Francisco, CA, 1908

Original publisher's choral sheet music. Front cover features a full-page illustration in yellow that shows a man and woman on a beach waving farewell to a ship at sea. One leaf folded in half and printed on all sides. 10 1/2" x 13 3/4." Four unnumbered pages, complete. The last page advertises other sheet music published by Sherman, Clay & Co. Sheet music is very clean and intact overall. Pages have slight wrinkling, a few minuscule closed tears at the fore-edge, and a spot in the right margin of the third page. "Aloha 'Oe" ("Farewell to Thee") is a song that was composed around 1878 by Queen Lili'uokalani (then a princess). It is her best-known song and is celebrated as a cultural emblem of Hawai'i. The song is said to have been inspired by an embrace between Colonel James Harbottle Boyd and a woman that happened during a horseback trip at the Boyd ranch. The identity of the woman is disputed but popular versions of the story say the woman was either Princess Likelike or a woman at the ranch. As a member of the traveling party, Lili'uokalani witnessed the embrace and began to hum the tune of "Aloha 'Oe" on the party's return to Honolulu. Other members of the party joined in and the song was completed at Washington Place. The lyrics of the song speak of sweet sentiments between two lovers as they part ways.. Book. Book Condition: Collectible-Very Good. Binding: No Binding

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