Day: March 9, 2016

Front facade of Houghton Library

Queen Liliʻuokalani’s composition “Aloha ʻOe” and American sheet music about Hawaiʻi

In honor of Women’s History Month, we invite you to look at some examples of sheet music composed by Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawaiʻi. The Historical Sheet Music Collections are home to a great number of songs about Hawaiʻi, many of them written by popular music composers in the period following the annexation of the islands…