Historic Sheet Music Collection
The Historic Sheet Music Collection (HSMC) consists primarily of popular music of the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth century. Although most of the music is composed or arranged for voice with piano accompaniment, some pieces incorporate other instruments such as guitar, and some are for instrumental solo (primarily piano or guitar). A few classical works are also included in the collection.
Sheet music can offer an interesting interdisciplinary research opportunity. The lyrics, cover art, and advertisements open a window on the society and culture of the time. Subjects range from popular love songs to laments to humorous ditties - and everything else in between. Many songs reflect on the U.S. Civil War, World War I, and World War II. There is even a song about Wheaties in the collection.
Submissions from 1880
Nanon Waltz, Richard Genée
One Heart, One Soul, Johann Strauss
Overture to Handel's Samson & Dead Marches No. 1 and No. 2, George Frideric Handel
Rigoletto: Paraphrase, Franz Liszt
'Tis All That I Can Say, Hope Temple
Submissions from 1876
Come Echo Catch My Song, Carl Maria von Weber
I Cannot Sing the Old Songs, Claribel
Submissions from 1875
Dear Old Home, Herbert Hersey; Tony Williams; J E. Baker; and J.H. Bufford's Sons, Lith.
Hirondelles, Felicien David and Henri Streich
Spring Song, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Submissions from 1874
My Ships are Coming Back to Me, John Ford
Submissions from 1873
Across the Far Blue Hills, Marie, G. W. Marston and Fred Weatherly
Authority Waltzes, Louish H. Plogsted
Bonnie Sweet Bessie the Maid o'Dundee, James L. Gilbert
Eileen Allanna, John Rogers Thomas and E. S. Marble
Little Topsey Galop, William Willing
Take this Letter to my Mother, Will S. Hays
The Mulligan Guard, Dave Braham and D Angelo
Submissions from 1872
Amazone, Charles-Samuel Bovy-Lysberg
Angels Ever Bright and Fair, George Frideric Handel, Thomas Morell, and Christine Nilsson
Giroflé-Girofla, Charles Lecocq
Lascia Ch'io Pianga, Frederic G. Handel and Harrison Millard
Mandolina, Augustin Cortada
Marie, Brinley Richards
Slumber Song, Theodore Oesten
Submissions from 1871
Périchole, Alfred H. Pease
Potpourris, Henri Cramer and Richard Wagner
Tausend Und Eine Nacht, Johann Strauss
The Dear Little Shamrock, John William Cherry
There is a Green Hill Far Away, Charles Gounod and Mrs. Cecil Francis Alexander
Wandering Jew, Friedrich Burgmüller
Submissions from 1870
A Little After Eight, W. F. Wellmman Jr. and George Cooper
Come, Birdie, Come, Charles Albert White
Fusionen (Fusion) Waltz, Edward Strauss
Génévieve de Brabant, Jacques Offenbach and Henri Cramer
If Ever I Cease To Love, George Leybourne
Marche Funebre, Frederic Chopin
Pasquinade, Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Put Me In My Little Bed, Dexter Smith and C. A. White
Spanish Fandango, Unknown
Submissions from 1869
Beautiful Bells, Waverly
Christmas Carol, C Koppitz
Five O'clock In The Morning, Claribel
Fleurs de Fantaisie, Alfred H. Pease
In Happy Moments (The Half Dime Series), William Vincent Wallace
In Tears I Pine for Thee, Giuseppe Verdi
Ixion Galop, Eolus
Love Among the Roses, Edward N. Catlin and J.E. Baker
My Angel, Raymond and Guglielmo
My Soul to God, My Heart to Thee, Louis Clapisson and William J. Wetmore
Power of Love, Jospeh Augustine Wade
Pulling Hard against the Stream, Harry Clifton
Smiles and Tears, J. Clippingdale
Those Tassels on the Boots, Raymond
Une Fleurette (A Floweret) Waltzes, Emil Wahle
Up in a Balloon, G. W. Hunt
Submissions from 1868
Barbe-Bleue Potpourri, Augustus Cull
Blue Eyed Rosabel, E Keller
Cataract Galop, Emil Wahle
Champagne Charlie, Alfred Lee
Dreams of the Sea Shore, Edward A. Niven and W. E. Chandler
First Kiss, Georges Lamothe
Genevieve Waltz, Eugene Aloys Wiener
Good-bye, Sweetheart, Good-bye, John L. Halton
Hamlet Opéra en Cinq Actes, Ambroise Thomas
Heavenward!, Guillaume Vilbre
I Love The Night, The Stilly Night, Louis Beyersdorf and W.E. Chandler
Life's Dream is O'er, Silas Gmaliel Pratt
Lohengrin, Charles Wels
Many Many Leagues at Sea, George A. Mietzke and Frank H. Stauffer
Marie Stuart, Louis Niedermeyer
My Father's Growing Old, Will S. Hays
My Shepherd Here, Jacques Offenbach
No crown without the cross : sacred song, George Cooper and William Penn
Oh! Sing No More!, Edith Walford and Frank Horton
O, Lovely Night, Thomas Moore and W. E. Chandler
On The Beach At Long Branch, William Lingard
Peerless Polka, J.S. Knight
Popping Corn, W. E. Chandler
Somebody's Heart, Somebody and R. Goerdeler
Sweet By-and-By, J. P. Webster
Weeping, Sad and Lonely or When This Cruel War is Over, Henry Tucker
Why Are You Weeping Dear Kathleen, Frank Wilder
Submissions from 1867
Annie Arden: Alfred Tennyson's Story of Enoch Arden in Five Verses, W C. Baker and Alfred Tennyson
Belle Mahone, John Hugh McNaughton
Flamingo: A Stray Fancy, George R. Poulton
Nellie Wildwood, William S. Pitts
Nellie Wildwood : song and chorus, W S. Pitts
Submissions from 1866
Father's A Drunkard And Mother Is Dead, E.A. Parkhurst and Stella
Melodienschatz, Josef Adalbert Pacher
Mouvement Perpetuel, Carl Maria von Weber
Music Among the Pines, Addison P. Wyman
My Heart is O'er the Sea, Claribel
Overture To Poet And Peasant, Franz Von Suppé
Tenting on the Old Camp Ground, Charles Grobe
Submissions from 1865
Budding Leaves, Julius Muller
Chant d'oiseaux au bocage, Thepdpre Oesten
Hark! Hark! Hark!, Henri Cromwell and Dexter Smith
I've Struck Ile, Frank Wilder
Marching Through Georgia, Henry Clay Work