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
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
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
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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