The song "The Lone Rock by the Sea", recalled by Charles Wilson as "The Rock Beside the Sea" and published by Charles Crozat Converse in 1857,[REF] derives from a Croatian folk song, "Sidi Mara Na Kamen Studencu" ("Girl on the Rock") [REF].
Musicologist Sigmund Spaeth noted that the first two measures of the melody of the chorus (which are arpeggiated IV-I chords) resemble[REF] the chorus of George Frederick Root's 1854 song "There's Music in the Air,"[REF] but measures 3 and 4 differ from it.