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 1909
I'm in Love With One of the Stars, Geo. M. Cohan
I've Got Rings on My Fingers, Maurice Scott, Robert P. Weston, and Fred J. Barnes
I Wish I Had My Old Girl Back Again, Ballard MacDonald and Paul Wallace
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, Joseph Edgar Howard
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now, Joseph E. Howard, Will M. Hough, and Frank R. Adams
Let's Go Back to Baby Days, Geo. W. Meyer and Jack Drislane
Let the Rest of the World Go By, J. Keirn Brennan and Ernest R. Ball
Love Thy Neighbor As Thyself, Will A. Heelan, E. S. S. Huntington, and Seymour Furth
Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland, Beth Slater Whitson and Leo Friedman
Meet Me Where the Lanterns Glow, Manuel Klein
My Dearest, Luella Lockwood Moore
My Hero, Oscar Straus and Stanislaus Stange
My Wife's Gone to the Country: Hurrah! Hurrah!, Ted Snyder, George Whiting, and Irving Berlin
Next to Your Mother Who Do You Love, Ted Snyder and Irving Berlin
Old Oaken Bucket, Louis A. Drumheller
Overture of Irish Melodies, R. L. Weaver
Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet, Percy Wenrich and Stanley Murphy
School Mates, Ed Gardenier and Gus Edwards
Sterling March, The, William H. Fry
Stingy Kid, Alfred Bryan and Nat Goldstein
Take Me Up With You Dearie, Junie McCree and Albert Von Tilzer
That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune, Irving Berlin
Then We'll All Go Home, Williams and Van Alstyne
'Twas in the Time of Roses, Will Heelan, Herbert De Pierce, and Seymour Furth
Two Little Love Bees, Heinrich Reinhardt and Robert B. Smith
Up The Hudson Or On The Sound, Ganger and Sullivan
When I Dream in the Gloaming of You, Herbert Ingraham
When I Dream in the Gloaming of You, Herbert Ingraham
When the Bloom is on the Cotton Dixie Lee, C M. Dennison and J Fred Helf
Will O' the Wisp, Torrence Benjamin and Charles Gilbert Spross
Won't You Come Back to Your Mother, Nell?, Alice S. McMahon
You Taught Me How To Love You, Now Teach Me To Forget, Jack Drislane, Alfred Bryan, and George W. Meyer
Submissions from 1908
Are You Sincere?, Alfred Bryan and Albert Gumble
Barcarolle from the Tales of Hoffmann, Jacques Offenbach and Robert Austin
Childhood, Alfred Bryan and Kerry Mills
Cuddle Up a Little Closer, Lovey Mine, Karl L. Hoschna and O. A. Hauerbach
Daisies Won't Tell, Anita Owen
Don't Take Me Home, Vincent Bryan and Harry Von Tilzer
Down Among The Sugar-Cane, Dan Avery, Chas. Hart, Cecil Mark, and Chris Smith
Down in Jungle Town, Edward Madden and Theodore Morse
Flower Songs, Edwin Schneider and Robert Loveman
Garden of Dreams, Clare Kummer
Girl from the Golden West, Bob Adams
Grandma, Alfred Bryan and Ted Snyder
Hoo-oo, Herbert Ingraham
If I Had a Thousand Lives to Live, Alfred Solman and Sylvester Maguire
I Hear You Calling Me, Harold Harford and Charles Marshall
I Hear You Calling Me, Harold Harford and Charles Marshall
I'm Looking for a Sweetheart, R. H. Burnside and Manuel Klein
I'm Tired of Living Without You, Kerry Mills and Edward Rose
In the Land of Beginning Again, George W. Meyer and Grant Clarke
It Looks Like a Big Night Tonight, Egbert Van Alstyne and Harry Williams
It's the Pretty Things You Say, Ted Snyder and Alfred Bryan
Kerry Mills Barn Dance, Kerry Mills
Longest Way 'Round is the Sweetest Way Home, Ren Shields and Kerry Mills
Make a Noise Like a Hoop and Roll Away, Ren Shields and J. Fred. Helf
Meet Me in Rose Time Rosie, Wm. Jerome and Jean Schwartz
My Dream of the USA, Leonard Chick, Charles H. Roth, Ted Snyder, and Alfred J. Doyle
O'Brien Has No Place to Go, George Evans and Stanley Murphy
Oh Miss Malinda, Bonita Armstrong and Max Armstrong
Over the Hills and Far Away, William Jerome and Jean Schwartz
Rainbow, Alfred Bryan and Percy Wenrich
Roses Bring Dreams of You, Herbert Ingraham
Somebody That I Know and You Know Too, J. Fred Helf and Ed Gardenier
Sometime, Vincent Bryan and Harry Von Tilzer
Summer Reminds Me of You, Alfred Bryan and Geo. W. Meyer
Summertime, Harry Von Tilzer and Jack Mahoney
Sunbonnet Sue, Will D. Cobb and Gus Edwards
Sweet Girl of My Dreams, Chauncey Olcott and Daniel J. Sullivan
Sweet Sixteens, Alfred Bryan and Kerry Mills
Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer
To the End of the World with You, Ernest R. Ball, Dave Reed, and George Graff Jr.
When I Marry You, Albert Gumble and Alfred Bryan
When the Meadow-Larks Are Calling, Annie Laurie, Richard H. Buck and Theodore Morse
When You and I Were Young, Maggie, George W. Johnson and J A. Butterfield
Yip-I-Addy-I-Ay, John H. Flynn and Will D. Cobb
Submissions from 1907
Angel's Prayer, Maud Bevans
Best I Get is Much Obliged To You, Benjamin Hapgood Burt
Carissima, Arthur A. Penn
Every Little Bit Added to What You've Got Makes Just a Little Bit More, William Dillon and Lawrence Dillon
Girl Who Threw Me Down, Benjamin Hapgood Burt and Albert Gumble
Glow-worm, Lilla Cayley Robinson and Paul Lincke
High Stepper, Anthony J. Stastny
Honey Boy, Jack Norworth and Albert Von Tilzer
Hymns of the Old Church Choir, Alfred Solman and Arthur J. Lamb
I Can't Find Another Girl Like You, Joe Hollander, Tell Taylor, and Gene Buck
I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark, Harry Williams and Egbert Van Alstyne
I Wish I Had a Girl, Grace Le Boy and Gus Kahn
Lord Geoffrey Amherst, James Shelley Hamilton and William Ely Hill
'Neath the Old Acorn Tree, Sweet Estelle, J. Fred Helf and C. M. Denison
One Little, Sweet Little Girl, Chauncey Olcott
Pride of the Prairie, Harry Breen and George Botsford
Red Wing, Thurland Chattaway and Kerry Mills
Red Wing, Kerry Mills
San Antonio, Harry Williams and Egbert Van Alstyne
School Days, Cobb and Edwards
So What's the Use, Edward Montagu
Take Me Back to New York Town, Andrew B. Sterling and Harry Von Tilzer
Tale the Church Bells Tolled, The, Harry Williams and Egbert Van Alstyne
There Never Was A Girl Like You, Egbert Van Alstyne and Harry Williams