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19th century sheet music collection

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 6238
Abstract

54 pieces of sheet music, primarily of popular songs published in the United States, with some examples published in England and Belgium, 1850s-1870s.

Dates: 1850s-1870s

American literature sheet music collection

 Collection
Identifier: 6154
Abstract This small collection of sheet music consists of music published between 1872 and 1940 (with the bulk published 1900s-1930s). The bulk of the music consists of lyrics written by significant American writers, including Booth Tarkington, Ring Lardner, Amy Lowell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Bill Nye, O. Henry, and Owen Wister, to name a few. The musical compositions were written by equally well known composers, including Jerome Kern, Efrem Zimbalist, Carrie Jacobs-Bond,and Doc White, among...
Dates: 1872 - 1940; Majority of material found in 1900s-1930s

Louie Bellson sheet music collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 0365
Abstract

This collection includes folders of annotated sheet music scores performed by drummer and band leader Louie Bellson (1924-2009) and associated acts, as well as Bellson’s compositions.

Dates: 1940 - 1989

Margaret Fallenius papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 6109
Abstract

Margaret Fallenius (approx. 1892-1962) was a voice, piano and violin teacher in Palo Alto, California, originally from the Portland, Oregon area. From approximately 1911-1924, Margaret performed classical violin on the Orpheum, Keith and Pantages vaudeville circuits. The collectioon contains travel diaries, scrapbooks, programs, photographs, musical scores/sheets documenting Fallenius' career in vaudeville.

Dates: 1892-1959

Armond Fields American Theatre collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0337
Abstract

This collection documents the history of the American stage before talking cinema, reflecting the birth and death of vaudeville and the advent of the modern Broadway musical. The collection includes books, posters, theater programs, sheet-music covers, souvenirs, rare film footage of vaudevillians, including Weber & Fields, and manuscripts and research notes for Armond Fields' own books.

Dates: 1856 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1895 - 1925

Harry James Band sheet music and scores

 Collection
Identifier: 1007
Abstract

This collection consists of the original orchestral scores and sheet music for big band leader Harry James' band.

Dates: 1939 - 1975

Mary Wood Hinman collection of English folk songs

 Collection
Identifier: 0035
Abstract The Mary Wood Hinman Collection consists of teaching materials for folk dancing, piano forte and some violin music books, programs for plays, photographs, sheet music, newspaper clippings as well as presidential and American history related items that have been collected by Mary Wood Hinman. The items document Hinman's long career as a folk dance teacher, choreographer, musician, lyricist and more. Mary Wood Hinman is regarded as an American scholar who helped to lead in the expansion and...
Dates: 1823-1917

Fredric Myrow papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1006
Abstract

This collection consists of the papers of American composer Fredric Myrow (1939-1999), along with some papers of his father, composer Josef Myrow (1910-1987). Materials includes manuscript scores, manuscript sheet music, recordings, and correspondence, as well as books, scores, sheet music, and recordings by others.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1950s-1990s

Rosenberg collection of sheet music

 Collection
Identifier: 1005
Abstract

Collection consists of American popular songs from 1870-1970.

Dates: 1870 - 1970

Aviva Rosenbloom collection on cantorial music

 Collection
Identifier: 6231
Abstract

This small collection contains Jewish cantorial music dating from the 1920s to the 2000s collected by cantor Aviva Rosenbloom. Materials consist mainly of sheet music and Bar/Bat Mitzah booklets from the 1990s-2000s.

Dates: 1923 - 2007

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Names
Adams, Franklin P. (Franklin Pierce), 1881-1960 1
Adams, Maude 1
Ade, George, 1866-1944 1
Albertine, Charles 1
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 1
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Armstrong, Lil Hardin 1
Bellson Francine 1
Bellson, Louis 1
Blossom, Henry, 1866-1919 1
Brady, James Buchanan 1
Christy Minstrels 1
Clayton, Buck 1
Clooney, Rosemary 1
Conniff, Ray 1
Corbett, James J. 1
Devenport, Frank 1
Engel, Carl, 1883-1944 1
Fallenius, Margaret 1
Fields, Armond 1
Fields, Lew 1
Foy, Eddie 1
Gershwin, George, 1898-1937 1
Gro, Josephine 1
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 1
Hefti, Neal 1
Heidt, Horace 1
Henry, O., 1862-1910 1
Holman, Bill 1
Jacobs-Bond, Carrie, 1862-1946 1
James, Harry 1
Jones, Thad 1
Kern, Jerome 1
Kibbee, Martin 1
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933 1
Leipzig, Adam 1
Loraine, William, 1869- 1
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925 1
Luders, Gustav, 1865-1913 1
Mandel, Johnny 1
Matlock, Matty 1
Matthias, Jack 1
McCormick, Katharine Dexter 1
McDonald, Bruce 1
Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 1892-1950 1
Montgomery, David Craig 1
Museum of the City of New York 1
Myrow, Fredric 1
Myrow, Josef, 1910-1987 1
National Portrait Gallery (Smithsonian Institution) 1
New York Public Library 1
Nye, Bill, 1850-1896 1
Pastor, Tony 1
Redman, Don 1
Richards, Johnny 1
Rogers, Shorty 1
Rosenbloom, Aviva 1
Russell, Lillian 1
Ryland, Gladys, 1900-1980 1
Sainton-Dolby, Charlotte Helen, 1821-1885 1
Segure, Roger 1
Sloane, A. Baldwin (Alfred Baldwin), 1872-1926 1
Stone, Fred 1
Stuart, Leslie, 1864-1928 1
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 1
Tucker, Sophie 1
University of Texas at Austin 1
Wathall, Alfred G. (Alfred George), 1880-1938 1
Watt, Hugh 1
Weber & Fields (Comedy team) 1
Weber, Joe 1
White, Doc, 1879-1969 1
Wilkins, Ernie 1
Williams, George 1
Winchell, Clarence 1
Wister, Owen, 1860-1938 1
Wolfe, Jacques, 1896-1973 1
Zimbalist, Efrem 1
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