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 1832
Occasional Ode or the Marseilles Hymn, Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle
Of What is the Old Man Thinking?, J. P. Knight
Old Colony Times, Old Colony Times
Overture to La Buona Figliuola, Niccolo Piccini
Petit Divertissement à la Paganini, Thomas Valentine
Strauss' Much Admired Waltzes, Johann Strauss
The Missionary Hymn, Sydney Nelson and Reginald Heber
Vedrai Carino, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Submissions from 1831
Bark Before the Gale: A Glee for Three Voices, John Willis and Walter Scott
Buona Notte Amato Bene, Franz Hunten
Child's First Grief, Miss Browne
Dinna Forget, John Imlah Esq. and Mrs. Millard
Homeward Bound!: A Ballad Composed for the Piano forte, George James Webb
List, to the Convent Bells!, John Blockley
Now With Grief No Longer Bending, Gioacchino Rossini
Pilot, S. Nelson
Soft Glides the Sea, Bounding and Free, George James Webb and Eliza Walker
Weep Not for Me: A Sacred Song, George James Webb
When We Two Parted, Mr. R
Submissions from 1830
Air Tyrolien, Carl Czerny
Banks of the Blue Moselle, George Herbert Rodwell and Edward Fitzball
Battle of Navarino, Hieronymus Payer
Bellini’s Celebrated Cavatina Tu Verdrai La S’Venturata, Vincenzo Bellini
Bohemian Melody, Carl Czerny
Cavatina de la Violette, Henri Herz and Michele Carafa
Cloches du Monastère, Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély
Collection of the Most Celebrated Waltzes, Beethoven
Come Dwell with Me : A Ballad, Alexander Lee, Thomas Haynes Bayly, and George Willig Jr.
Dussek's Consolation, Johann Ladislauss Dussek
General Knox's March. Pandeo Band, General Knox's March. Pandeo Band
Gypsey's Wild Chaunt, Alexander Lee and Henry Robert Addison
Haydn's Symphony Letter Q, Joseph Haydn
Hope Told a Flattering Tale, Giovanni Paesiello
I'd Weep with Thee, Carl Maria von Weber
I've Wandered in Dreams: A Favorite Duet, Josesph Augustine Wade Esqr.
Lays of Harmony, or, The Musical Scrap Book, Neville Butler Challoner
Madelle Sontag's Waltz, Henri Herz
Market Chorus, Daniel Francois Esprit Auber
Meet Me by Moonlight, Joseph Augustine Wade and Franklin Peale
My Heart Is Sair for Somebody, Henry R. Bishop
Nora Creina, John Stevenson
O Dolce Concento, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and G. Ferrari
Our Friendship, Townshend Stith
Overture to the Caliph of Baghdad, Adrien Boieldieu
Overture to the opera of the Marriage of Figaro, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Pray Papa, P. K. Moran
Second Collection of the Most Celebrated Waltzes, Beethoven
Spanish Patriot's March, Spanish Patriot's March
Strauss's Celebrated Serenading Waltz, Johann Strauss
Swiss Air, When the Day with Rosy Light Op. 32, Franz Hunten
Taglioni Waltz, Gioacchino Rossini
The Knight From Palestine, John Hill Hewitt and Moses Swett
Titus March, Titus March
Voce Poco Fa, W. Hunten
Yankee Doodle, Yankee Doodle
Zip Coon, George Washington Dixon
Submissions from 1829
Genl. W.H. Harrison's Grand March, John F. Goneke and William Henry Harrison
Submissions from 1828
Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms, John Stevenson
Carissima, Arthur A. Penn
Carrollton March, Arthur Clifton
My Soul is Dark, C. E. Phillips
Non, Non plus d'Amour, Guillaume Louis Bocquillon Wilmem
Submissions from 1827
City Guards, Boston Brigade Band
Hey the Bonnie Breast Knots, John Sinclair
Hurrah for the Bonnets of Blue, Alexander Lee
Overture to Il Barbiere Di Seviglia, Gioacchino Rossini
West Point Cadet's Quick March, M. E. Metz
Submissions from 1825
I'll Watch for Thee From My Lonely Bow'r, John Stevenson
Rest! Warrior. Rest!, Michael Kelly
Tho' 'tis all but a Dream, Henry R. Bishop and Thomas Moore
Tho' 'Tis All but a Dream, Henry Rowley Bishop
Submissions from 1824
Home Sweet Home, Henry R. Bishop
I See Them On Their Winding Way, B. Hime and Bishop Reginald Herber
Le barbier de Seville: opera en quatre actes d'après Beaumarchais et le drame Italien, Gioacchino Rossini and Castil-Blaze
Marche Religieuse, James H. Swindells
Submissions from 1823
Battle of Maringo: A Military and Historical Piece for the Pianoforte, Bernard Viguerie
Celebrated Venetian Gallope and March, Johann Strauss
Di Tanti Palpiti, Gioacchino Rossini
Submissions from 1822
Beaucoup d'Amour, Guillaume Louis Bocquillon Wilmem
Braes o' Balquhither, John Davies
Dahlia, John Alois Moralt
Gildon's Celebrated March for the Piano Forte or Harp, John Gildon
O Dolce Concento with Variations, T. Latour
Overture to the Opera of Otello, Gioacchino Rossini
Submissions from 1820
Air du Droit du Seigneur, Exupere de La Maniere
Béarnais Vainqueur, Fabry Garat
Behold How Brightly Breaks the Morning, Daniel François Esprit Auber
Belle Plus Belle, Jule Candeille
Eve's Lamentation, Matthew Peter King
Haydn's Celebrated Andante The Surprise, Joseph Haydn
I'd be a Butterfly, Thomas Haines Bailey
Musette de Nina, Charles Gilfert
O Dolce Concento, T. Latour
Rossini's Celebrated Overture to the Opera of Il Tancredi, Gioacchino Rossini
Suave le Roi, Monsieur Chenié
Triomphe des Lys, H. A. Kretschmer
Variations to the Suabian Air, Peter K. Moran
When the Morning First Dawns, Air, W. M. Rooke
Submissions from 1818
Chant Guerrier des Abencerrages, Mr. E de M.
Chevaliers Francais, h A. Kretschmer