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 1856
Captain Jinks, T Maclagan
Favorite, D. Krug
Home Sweet Home, Henry R. Bishop
Kathleen Mavourneen, Francis Weiland and F. Nicholls Crouch
Kissing Thro' the Bars, Joseph Wood Jr. and William F. Small
Little May, R.H. Stoddard Esq. and August Mignon
Ossian's Serenade, Jenny Lines
Pretty Fay, Why Away, J. W. Cherry
Rosalie the Prairie Flower, George Frederick Root
Sailing on the Summer Sea, J. W. Cherry
Sparking Sunday Night, S. Markstein
Troubadour, D. Krug
Wheatland Schottisch, Frank Emmo
Submissions from 1855
Christmas Schottisch, George L. Walker
Die vier Haimonskinder, D. Krug
Dreams, Faustina Hasse Hodges
Famous Quadrilles, Wm. Dressler
Flying Cloud A New Schottisch, Cha's D'Albert
Hurrah for New England, W. P. Chamberlain
Mardi Gras, Camille Schubert
Memory, Joseph Augustine Wade
Métamorphoses du jour: Hoch vom Dachstein, Charles Voss
My Early Fireside, Alice Hawthorne
O'er the Far Blue Mountain, G. F. Cole and Hemans
Pluie de Perles, G. A. Osborne
Salut a la France, Gaetano Donizetti
Sonata Op. 49, no. 1, Ludwig van Beethoven
Song of the Captive Greek Girl, John William Hobbs and Julia Pardoe
Tam O'Shanter, George William Warren and Robert Burns
Tam O' Shanter, George William Warren
There is Music in the Voice We Love, Elmar Ruan Coates Esq.
The Sailor Boy's Prayer, Charles Crozat Converse and T.W. Upshur
Vaillance: Polka Militaire, Joseph Ascher
Wellenspiel, Fritz Spindler and Helene von Winckler
Submissions from 1854
Cloches du monastère, Lefébure-Wély
Kitty Clyde, L. V. H. Crosby
L'enfer Quadrille Diabolique, Henri Bohlman-Sauzeau
Sleigh Bell Polka, W. H. Keffer
Souvenirs of Kentucky, Wm. Iucho
Storm-Galopade, Bilse
What is Home Without a Father?, Louis S.D. Rees
What is Home Without a Mother?, Alice Hawthorne
Submissions from 1853
Consider the Lilies, Robert Topliff
Heimweh, Albert Jungmann
Lament of the LYre, George W. Hewitt and Mrs. Hemans
Naiades, Chas. Grobe
Rocked In The Cradle Of The Deep, Emma Willard, Joseph Phillip Knight, and Charles Crozat
Softly Ye Night Winds, WM. Vincent Wallace and Mary E. Hewitt
Sweet is the Smile of My Mary, G. Barker
The Long, Long Weary Day, Connecticut College Music Collection
Thinking of Thee, Charlie C. Converse
Wild Free Wind, Alexander Lee and Shirley Brooks
Submissions from 1852
By the Margin of Fair Zurich's Waters, Charles Grobe
Fete Des Fees, George William Warren
Flying Cloud, Charles Grobe
Gipsey Schottisch, Francis H. Brown
Girard House Polka, C. F. Stein
Home of my Heart Waltz, Chales Grobe
Home of My Heart Waltz, Charles Grobe
Lilly Dale, H. S. Thompson
March from Lucie de Lammermoor, Charles Grobe
Perles Melodiques, Henri Cramer
Switzer's Farewell, Henry Werner
Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg, Richard Wagner
The Old Folks Are Gone, George Friedrich Wurzel
Trois Valses Brillantes, Frédéric Chopin
Submissions from 1851
Air Tyrolien, F. Hunten
Belle Louise, George W. Warren
Call Me Pet Names, Francis Weiland and Frances Sargent Locke Osgood
Child's Wish, H D. Munson
Cora, The INdian Maiden's Song: "The Wild Free Wind", Shirley Brooks Esq. and Alexander Lee
Ernani Op.63 No.4, Theodor Oesten
Hear Me, Norma, Vincenzo Bellini
I'm Only Sixteen, John Hill Hewitt and T. Crouch
Le Mancenillier, Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Quatorze Sonates pour le piano, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sounds from Home, Josef Gungl
Submissions from 1850
Argentine: Silvery Thistle, Eugene Ketterer
Aufforderung zum Tanze, Carl Maria von Weber
Carnaval De Venise, Charles Voss
Cloches Du Monastère, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély
Clochettes du Traîneau, Francis Edward Bache
Come dwell With Me, Alexander Lee
Curfew, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Departure of the Volunteers, E. Provost
Fairy Lake Waltz, Emanuel Brandeis
Fantaisie élégante Agathe : "Wenn die Schwalben heimwärts ziehn" : op. 57, no. 4, Henri Cramer and Franz Abt
Grand Polka de Concert, W. V. Wallace
Home, Dear Home! Fond Memory Treasures, C.E. Ressiger and Jan Křtitel Pišek
I'm Sitting by the Stile Mary, George Barker and Lady Dufferin
Kathleen Mavourneen, F. Nicholls Crouch, Louisa McCartney Crawford, and Catherine Hayes
Listen to the Mocking Bird, Alice Hawthorne
Marseillaise, Ferdinand Beyer
My Home Must Be Where'er Thou Art, G. A. A. Beckett
My Queen, Charles Coote
No! Ne'er Can thy home Be Mine, Thomas Haynes Bayly and John Edgar Gould
O Dolce Concento, T. Latour
Old Rosin the Beau, Mr. Martynn
O Take Me Back To Switzerland, Caroline Sheridan Norton
Priere Exaucée, Thekla Badarzewska