Historic Sheet Music Collection

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.

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Submissions from 1844

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Kentucky Gentleman, John H. Hewitt

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Language of Flowers, Joseph Lanner

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Le premier rayon d'amour, Joseph Vimeux, Léon Riant, and Alexandre David

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Lone Old Man, James Gaspard Maeder

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Marion Day, Edward L. White

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Oh! Poor Miss Lucy Neale! and Dandy Jim, Edward L. White

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Pilgrims' Legacy, Broadway Tabernacle (New York, N.Y.)

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Royal Irish Quadrilles, Louis Antoine Jullien

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Simania, W. V. Wallace

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Sunset Waltz, Henry Schmitdt

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The Rochester Arcade Quick Step, William C. Glynn

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'Tis Home Where'er the Heart Is, John Hill Hewitt

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'Tis Sad To Think Upon The Joyous Days of Old, Mrs. Norton and Francis Weiland

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Turkish Waltz, Johann Strauss

Submissions from 1843

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Blockley's Beautiful Melofy of Love Not, Edward L. White

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Cot Were We Were Born, Lyman Heath

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Dream On, Young Hearts, N. J. Sporle

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Excelsior, Hutchinson Family

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Go Call the Doctor & Be Quick or Anti Calomel, Judson Joseph Hutchinson

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Grave of Bonaparte, L. Heath

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Grave of Bonaparte, Lyman Heath

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La part du diable : opéra comique en trois actes, Daniel François Esprit Auber and Matteo Carcassi

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L'herbagère et les gens du roi, Loïsa Puget, Gustave Lemoine, and Matteo Carcassi

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Music at Nightfall, Charles J. Jefferys Esq. and Sydney Nelson

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Newfoundland Dog, Henry Russell, F.W.N. (Frederic William Naylor) Bayley, and George W. Quidor

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Old Granite State, Hutchinson Family

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Remembrance of the West, Remembrance of the West

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Sister Loved: A Song, George Linley

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Song of the Captive Greek Girl, J. W. Hobbs

Submissions from 1842

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Blind Boy, William R. Dempster

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Bowen's Quick Step, Samuel R. Leland

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Clay's Quick Step From a Favorite French Air, Edward L. White

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Come, Oh Come with Me, the Moon is Beaming, B. S. Barclay

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Come Sit Thee Down, John Sinclair

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Dances From The Melodrama Of Carl Milhan, John Friedheim and Edward Fitzball

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Fall Of Paris, Ld. Meignen & Co.

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Fantasie Brillante, Ferdinand Herold

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Glenmary Waltzes, Richard Storrs Willis

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Kathleen Mavourneen, F. N. Crouch

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Lady of Beauty, Knyvett

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Last Greeting, Franz Schubert

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Leipsig Gallopade, J. Walch

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Love Not, Caroline Sheridan Norton and John Blockley

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Nobles Voyageurs, Carl Czerny

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Overture to the Opera of the Bohemian Girl, M. W. Balfe

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Passing Bell, Franz Schubert

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Real Scotch Quadrilles, Louis Antoine Jullien

Submissions from 1841

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Ah! Dearest Once More Returning, Vincenzo Bellini

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Carrier Dove, Daniel Johnson and John Newland Maffitt

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Chieftain's Daughter, Henry Russell and George Pope Morris

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Dead March in Saul, Thomas Carr

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Deux Marguerites : chansonnette, F. Masini, Émile Barateau, and Joseph Vimeux

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Dieu m'a conduit vers vous : romance, F. Masini, Émile Barateau, and Joseph Vimeux

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Dismissed, Henry Russell

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Fais qu'il ne m'aime pas : romance, F. Masini, Émile Barateau, and Joseph Vimeux

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Funeral March, J. H. Seipp

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Grand March, Rainer Family (Musical group)

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I Canna Lo'e Him Less, William R. Dempster, Catharine H. Waterman, and William W. Smith

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I'm Afloat! I'm Afloat!, Henry Russell and Eliza Cook

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Lizzy Lass, J.M. White and Allan Grant

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Long I for Thee!, William R. Dempster

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Mazurka, La Mazurka

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Miller's Maid, Miller's Maid

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Miller's Maid, Thomas Power Esq.

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Mother Oh Sing Me To Rest, Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans and Charles Edward Horn

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Old Arm Chair, Henry Russell

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Old Farm Gate, Henry Russell

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Old Night Lamp, Henry Russell

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Old Sexton, Henry Russell

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Our Native Song, Henry Russell

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Our Native Song, Henry Russell

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President Harrison's Funeral Dirge, Henry Dielman

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Rory O'More, Samuel Lover

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Sailor Boy's Carol, Thomas Power Esq.

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Spring is Returning, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

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Sweetheart, Sweetheart

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The Old Sexton, Henry Russell, Benjamin Champney, and Benjamin Park

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Tyrolese War Song, Tyrolese War Song

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Was It Not at One?, Was It Not at One?

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Zampa, ou, La fiancée de marbre : opéra comique en trois actes, Ferdinand Hérold and Mélesville

Submissions from 1840

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Amid This Greenwood Smiling, Sigismond Thalberg

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A Song of the Oak The Brave Old Oak, Edward James Loder

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Away Away to the Moutains Brow, Alexander Lee

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Beethoven's Last Waltz, Ludwig van Beethoven

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Benedetta, Loïsa Puget, Gustave Lemoine, and Joseph Vimeux

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Cachucha, Fanny Elssler

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Circassian March, Circassian March

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Come Love & List Awhile, H. F. Williams

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Come, with Thy Lute, to the Fountain, John P. Hullah

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Cracovienne, Robert Nicolas Charles Bocsha

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Cracovienne Waltz, Francis H. Bowen

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Dans mes forêts sauvages : melodie pour voix de bariton, F. Massini, Matteo Carcassi, Marc Constantin, and Frédéric Sorrieu

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Dieu et ma mère, Paul Henrion, Émile Barateau, and Matteo Carcassi

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Divertimento or Grand pot pourri, Adolphe Adam

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Dussek's Sonata Op. 24, Johann Ladislaus Dussek

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Elssler Quadrilles, Charles Jarvis

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Endors-toi ma mère: Rêverie pour soprano, Alphonse Thys

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Fanny Grey, Caroline Sheridan Norton

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For Erin is My Home, Ignaz Moscheles

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Fra Diavolo : opéra comique en trois actes, Daniel François Esprit Auber and Eugène Scribe