University of Dubuque / Charles C. Myers Library INVENTORY OF AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC (1844 – 1949) May 17, 2004 Introduction The Charles C. Myers Library at the University of Dubuque has a collection of 573 pieces of American sheet music (of which 17 are incomplete) housed in Special Collections and stored in acid free folders and boxes. The collection is organized in three categories: African American Music, Military Songs, and Popular Songs. There is also a bound volume of sheet music and a set of The Etude Music Magazine (32 items from 1932-1945). The African American music, consisting of 28 pieces, includes a number of selections from black minstrel shows such as “Richards and Pringle’s Famous Georgia Minstrels Songster and Musical Album” and “Lovin’ Sam (The Sheik of Alabami)”. There are also pieces of Dixieland and plantation music including “The Cotton Field Dance” and “Massa’s in the Cold Ground”. There are a few pieces of Jazz music and one Negro lullaby. The group of Military Songs contains 148 pieces of music, particularly songs from World War I and World War II. Different branches of the military are represented with such pieces as “The Army Air Corps”, “Bell Bottom Trousers”, and “G. I. Jive”. A few of the delightful titles in the Military Songs group include, “Belgium Dry Your Tears”, “Don’t Forget the Salvation Army (My Doughnut Girl)”, “General Pershing Will Cross the Rhine (Just Like Washington Crossed the Delaware)”, and “Hello Central! Give Me No Man’s Land”. There are also well known titles including “I’ll Be Home For Christmas (If Only In my Dreams)”. “We Stand for Peace while Others War” was inspired by President Wilson’s “Appeal to Americans” calling for the United States to stay neutral in 1914. However, there are earlier pieces, the earliest being “Hurrah for the Clay-The Ashland Quickstep” from 1844 which was written for the dedication of the Clay Club building in Lexington, Kentucky. The largest group in this collection (356 pieces) is the Popular Songs. Two of Walt Disney’s songs are in this collection, “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf” and “When You Wish Upon A Star”. Two pieces of note, designed to be mailed from hotels, are “Bier Stube Songs” from the Bismark Hotel in Chicago and “Songs Your Grandpa Danced to that Broke Grandma’s Heart” from the 90’s Tap at the La Salle Hotel, Chicago. Other titles in the Popular Songs are, “There’ll Be Blue Birds Over The White Cliffs Of Dover”, “My Sweet Hawaiian Doll I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”, “The Merry Widow Waltz”, “The Milwaukee Fire, or The Burning of the Newhall House”, and “In My Merry Oldsmobile”. There are a few pieces of Iowa music, music about rivers, and pieces from expositions as well as a few pieces of baseball music that would have been played on the stadium organ during games. There is also a bound volume containing 52 pieces of sheet music (4 of which are incomplete). Most of these are for the Spanish guitar and are some of the oldest pieces in the library collection. Shelved with this collection is a facsimile set of music by Stephen Collins Foster in three boxes (224 items), reproductions of all his songs, compositions, and arrangements. Josiah Kirby Lilly of Indianapolis, Indiana donated this set to the library in April of 1934. This collection is a significant source, not only for the music itself, but as a means for understanding popular culture in America. 2 Abbreviations AA African American Music BRV Bound Riley Volume MS Military Songs PS Popular Songs 3 Admiral Dewey - The Hero of Manila Joseph F. Dorgan 1899 MS, Box 2 After the Battle Paul Dresser 1905 MS, Box 2 After Nine Chas. K Harris 1893 PS, Box 5 After The Ball Chas. K. Harris 1892 PS, Box 5 After the War is Over Will There be Any “Home Sweet Home” Words by E.J. Pourmon Music by Joseph Woodruff 1917 MS, Box 2 Ain’t Dat A Shame By wordsJohn Queen and musicWalter Wilson 1901 AA, Box 1 Alexander’s Ragtime Band (2 copies) Irving Berlin 1911 PS, Box 5 Alice I’m in Wonderland Arthur Fields and Theodore Morse 1917 PS, Box 5 4 All By Myself Irving Berlin 1920 PS, Box 5 All For You Words by Roger Lewis Music by Victor LaSalle 1912 PS, Box 5 All the World Will By Jealous Of Me (incomplete) Words by Al Dubin Music by Ernest R. Ball 1917 PS, Box 5 Along the Lane That Leads To Lexington (cover only) Words by Will J. Harris Music by Hampton Durand PS, Box 5 Along the Way to Waikiki Words by Gustave Kahn Music by Richard Whiting 1917 PS, Box 5 Always By Irving Berlin 1925 PS, Box 5 Always and Always Words by Bob Wright and Chet Forrest music by Edward Ward 1937 PS, Box 5 America Here’s My Boy Words BY Andrew B. Sterling Music By Arthur Lange 1917 MS, Box 2 America High in Honor Words and music by Curt Leipert 1916 MS, Box 2 5 America Never Took Water and America Never Will Words and music by J. Keirn Brennan, Gus Edwards, and Paul Cunningham 1919 MS, Box 2 Amphion Waltz George Gregory O’Dwyer 1889 PS, Box 5 Anchors Aweigh By Chas. A Zimmerman arranged by Ed Smalle 1930 MS, Box 2 Anchors Aweigh (orange cover) By Capt. Alfred H. Miles, U.S.N., and Chas. A. Zimmerman 1943 MS, Box 2 Andante in A Flat By Beethoven Copyright Unlisted PS, Box 5 Anniversary Song By Al Jolson and Saul Chaplin 1944 PS, Box 5 Anything is Nice if it Comes From Dixieland By Grant Clarke, Geo. W. Meyer, and Milton Ager 1919 AA, Box 1 Araby Irving Berlin 1915 PS, Box 5 Are You Lending a Hand To Yankee Land? Words by J. Will Callahan Music by Blanche M. Tice 1918 MS, Box 2 6 Arion: A Collection of Marches, Waltzes, Airs, Rondos, Fantasias, etc. Adolph Schmitz BRV The Army Air Corps (2 copies) By Robert Crawford 1942 MS, Box 2 Around the Corner Words by Gus Kahn Music by Art Kassel 1930 PS, Box 5 As You Were When I First Met You, That’s How I Want You To-day Clarence Gaskill 1918 PS, Box 5 At Dawning Charles Wakefield Cadman 1906 PS, Box 5 At the Balalaika Words by Bob Right and Chet Forrest, Music by George Posford 1936 PS, Box 5 At the Shrine of Love Herbert Edwin Graham 1920 PS, Box 5 Avalon Town Words by Grant Clarke Music by Nacio Herb Brown 1928 PS, Box 5 Baby Doll Armstrong and Clark 1907 PS, Box 5 7 Ballads Arranged for the Spanish Guitar (cover only) F. R. Prohl 1858 BRV Barcarolle M. Glinka PS, Box 5 Barn-Yard Rag’ Chris Smith and Billy Johnson 1911 PS, Box 5 The Base Ball Quadrille Henry Von Gudera 1867 PS, Box 5 Battle Song of Liberty Words by Jack Yellen Music adapted by George L. Cobb 1918 MS, Box 2 Beautiful Blue Danube Waltz Johann Strauss PS, Box 5 Beautiful Ohio Song Words by Mary Earl Music by Ballard Macdonald 1918 PS, Box 5 Beautiful Star of Heaven Louis A. Drumheller 1905 PS, Box 5 Because You Were An Old Sweetheart Of Mine Words by Maurice L. Jacobs Music by Harry I. Robinson 1901 PS, Box 5 8 Be Gay With Za-Ga-Zig W. McKinley Garman 1921 PS, Box 5 Belgium Dry Your Tears Words by Arthur Freed Music by Al. Piantadosi 1918 MS, Box 2 Bell Bottom Trousers By Moe Jaffe 1944 MS, Box 2 The Bells Of St. Mary Words by Douglas Furber, Music by A. Emmett Adams 1917 PS, Box 5 Beloved Gus Kahn and Joe Sanders 1928 PS, Box 5 Bier Stube Songs (for mailing from the Bismarck Hotel in Chicago) 1935 PS, Box 5 Black Hawk Waltz Mary E. Walsh PS, Box 5 Black Hawk Waltzes By Mary E. Walsh 1907 PS, Box 5 Blue Bell Words by Edward Madden, Music by Theodore F. Morse 1904 MS, Box 2 9 Blue-eyed Sally Al. Bernard and Russel Robinson 1924 PS, Box 5 The Blue Juniata Mrs. Marion Dix Sullivan 1846 BRV Bonny Eloise (The Belle of Mohawk Vale) Words by George W. Elliott Music by J. R. Thomas 1858 BRV Boots and Saddles (first page only) Milton W. Lusk 1914 PS, Box 5 Brave Boys are They Henry C. Work 1861 BRV Break the News To Mother (cover only) Chas. K. Harris MS, Box 2 Bring Back My Daddy to Me Words by William Tracey and Howard Johnson Music by George W. Meyer 1917 MS, Box 2 The Broadway Melody Words by Arthur Freed Music by Nacio Herb Brown 1929 PS, Box 5 A Brown Bird Singing Words by Royden Barrie, Music by Haydn Wood 1920 PS, Box 5 10 Byerlys Waltz A. Kleber 1851 BRV By The Waters Of Minnetonka By Thurlow Lieurance 1914 PS, Box 5 Call Me Back, Pal O’Mine Words by Morgan Brown Music by Harold Dixon 1912 PS, Box 5 Call Me Dearie – That’s All (incomplete) Words by A. H. Eastman Music By Fred Heltman PS, Box 5 Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon Irving Berlin 1910 PS, Box 5 Casey Jones (The Brave Engineer) (2 different copies) Words by T. Lawrence Seibert Music by Eddie Newton 1909 PS, Box 5 The Cassions Go Rolling Along By Edmund L. Gruber 1944 MS, Box 2 Chariot Race By E.T. Paul 1894 PS, Box 5 Chautauqua System Song Omero Signor Castellucci 1916 PS, Box 6 11 Chorales By Various Artists PS, Box 6 Christofo Columbo (Thought the World Was Round-O) Speed Langworthy 1924 PS, Box 6 Clair de lune By Claude Debussy 1927 PS, Box 6 Clayton’s Grand March C.