"Sunday" also became a "parlor song," popularly sung by friends and family gathering around the piano for entertainment.

He also felicitously evoked 19th-century music that Whitman loved, like parlor songs, and country dances.

In the 19th century, many Americans composed songs for amateur musicians to sing at home (usually called parlor songs).

The song's success establishes Hewitt as the first American "compose parlor songs and market them successfully".

It features the duo's renditions of six classic American parlor songs which were originally written between 1864 and 1915.

Irene Berthiaume opened the program with parlor songs from Quebec.

Who else would have the nerve to write a parlor song called "Why Must We Die?"

However, he also set texts by English writers which became popular both as concert pieces and as parlor songs.

He composed many ballads, parlor songs, and nocturnes, although few if any modern recordings of his work exist.

His repertoire included Child Ballads, negro spirituals and parlor songs.