Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Sheet Music, Song Sheets, Spirituals, Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Folk Songs, Opera Musical Theater, Jazz, Hymns, Gospel Music, Choirs and Choral Music, Musical Instruments and Stores, Etc.
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Sheet Music, Song Sheets, Spirituals, Minstrels and Minstrelsy, Folk Songs, Opera Musical Theater, Jazz, Hymns, Gospel Music, Choirs and Choral Music, Musical Instruments and Stores, Etc.
![3734869] Jazz 1951. The Metronome Yearbook. The Metronome](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734869.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744147341)
Profusely illustrated, with articles on Sarah Vaughan, Art Pepper, Stan Kenton, Sonny Stitt, Zoot Sims, Oscar Peterson, Glenn Miller, George De Witt, Ray Malone, and..... Read More about Jazz 1951. The Metronome Yearbook
![3735765] Sing and Be Happy. (Shoot Rudolf Songsheet and Advertisement Leaflet, ca. 1920s). Shoot...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735765.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1771374734)
Song Leaflet Promoting “Shoot Rudolph” Show, Philadelphia Entertainment Service, Ca. 1920s Issued by Lew Gordon Entertainment Service, Philadelphia, this leaflet advertises “Shoot Rudolph,” a vaudeville-style..... Read More about Sing and Be Happy. (Shoot Rudolf Songsheet and Advertisement Leaflet, ca. 1920s
![3735391] Erbauliche Lieder-Sammlung für Ev.-Luth. Gemeinen in Pennsylvanien und Nachbarstaaten....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735391.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755808560)
Three devotional and liturgical texts printed in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1803, bound in one volume, and issued for use among the German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran congregations..... Read More about Erbauliche Lieder-Sammlung für Ev.-Luth. Gemeinen in Pennsylvanien und Nachbarstaaten. Hrsg. vom...
![3735335] Ten Little Injuns: Comic Song and Chorus. Sung with Immense Applause by Mr. E. F. Dixey....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735335.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1755206536)
Dedicated to “To Master Frank Dixey Winner,” this sheet music was performed by Edward F. Dixey, a 19th-century American comic actor associated with blackface minstrelsy..... Read More about Ten Little Injuns: Comic Song and Chorus. Sung with Immense Applause by Mr. E. F. Dixey
![3735334] Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines. Written & Sung By T. Maclagan [cover title]. T....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735334.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1753205063)
This postbellum American comic ballad was likely written and performed by Scottish entertainer Tom Maclagan, active since the mid-1860s. The piece gained fame in the..... Read More about Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines. Written & Sung By T. Maclagan [cover title
![3735163] Story Hour: A Second Look at Cinderella, Bluebeard, and Company. (Inscribed by author to...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3735163.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1750453160)
First edition, so stated, first printing. From the library of composer Leonard Bernstein. Inscribed and signed by Hay to Bernstein at the MacDowell Colony: “For..... Read More about Story Hour: A Second Look at Cinderella, Bluebeard, and Company. (Inscribed by author to composer...
![3734904] 1988– 1996 Archive of Dr. Lynn Gumert, music therapist, composer, educator. Lynn...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734904.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1747842038)
Forty-eight total items. Archive of Dr. Lynn Gumert, a music therapist, composer, educator, and PhD candidate at Drexel University. Active since 2019, they teach at..... Read More about 1988– 1996 Archive of Dr. Lynn Gumert, music therapist, composer, educator
![3734814] Inscribed Portrait of Accordion Virtuoso Pietro Deiro, New York, 1942. Pietro Deiro](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734814.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1742591738)
An inscribed 1942 publicity photograph of Pietro Deiro (1888–1954), one of the foremost figures in early 20th-century American accordion music. Known as the “Daddy of..... Read More about Inscribed Portrait of Accordion Virtuoso Pietro Deiro, New York, 1942
![3733495] Musical Manual. Designed as a Text-Book for Classes or Private Pupils in Vocal or...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733495.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1726176632)
Scarce Civil War-era music instruction book, intended as a foundational text for both vocal and instrumental training. Rev, Hood, writing from Princeton, New Jersey, states..... Read More about Musical Manual. Designed as a Text-Book for Classes or Private Pupils in Vocal or Instrumental Music
![3734419] Clarence “Chic” Bell - Maestro. House of David Band. [caption title]. House of David...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3734419.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1729783895)
Real photo postcard with half-length portrait of Clarence “Chic” Bell, director of the House of David Band at Eden Springs Park, the communal society’s amusement..... Read More about Clarence “Chic” Bell - Maestro. House of David Band. [caption title
![3733573] Frank I. Frayne Free Songster ... The Great Western Dramas. American Songster](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733573.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1709150863)
Frank I. Frayne described himself as the “Pioneer of the Melodrama.” This giveaway “Free Songster,” in broadside format, advertises a week of his performances beginning..... Read More about Frank I. Frayne Free Songster ... The Great Western Dramas
![3731423] The Arrival of B.B. King. The Authorized Biography. (Signed by B.B. King). Charles Sawyer](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731423.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1707860477)
Lovely copy of this authoritative biography on blues guitar legend and performer B.B. King. Inscribed by B.B. King in 1988 to an avid collector of..... Read More about The Arrival of B.B. King. The Authorized Biography. (Signed by B.B. King
![3731482] [Court of King Arthur] The History of Tarquin and Lancelot du Lake. Anon](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731482.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1684370211)
An unrecorded 18th century broadside commemorating Sir Lancelot du Lake and Sir Tarquin’s hand-to-hand combat battle. The sheet was sold to tourists at Tamworth Castle..... Read More about Court of King Arthur] The History of Tarquin and Lancelot du Lake
![3732870] Illusions for Piano [Morton Feldman in New Music Quarterly, July, 1950]. Morton Feldman](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732870.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1673559364)
First edition of Morton Feldman’s (1926–1987) first piano work (1950) to appear in print, one of his earliest compositions and one of his earliest published..... Read More about Illusions for Piano [Morton Feldman in New Music Quarterly, July, 1950
![3732642] Morton Feldman Says. Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987. ed Chris Villars](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3732642.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1680019080)
First edition, first printing of this collection of lectures and interviews of this noted American composer who studied composition with Wallingford Riegger and Stefan Wolpe..... Read More about Morton Feldman Says. Selected Interviews and Lectures 1964-1987
![3731687] Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title]. By Lester Bodine,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731687.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1668787135)
Written by two white composers, this ragtime song first appeared in an illustrated newspaper supplement. For this supplement, a grotesque cover art illustration was used..... Read More about Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title
![3730376] 1887–1951, Collection of Hagerstown, Maryland Ephemera, mostly for Musical and Choral...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730376.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620683750)
Ephemera group, mostly from Hagerstown, Maryland; principally, 10 musical and choral programs from 1916 to 1920. Sponsoring organizations include the Choral Society of Hagerstown, Concert..... Read More about 1887–1951, Collection of Hagerstown, Maryland Ephemera, mostly for Musical and Choral Performances
![3730089] When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3730089.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1612813786)
From cover to cover, a chromolithographically illustrated program for this “glittering military comic opera” set in the South during the American Civil War. The three-act..... Read More about When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title
![3725340] [Noah Webster:] An Oration on Music. [manuscript’s caption title]. Unkwn](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3725340.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1614192046)
Late 18th or early 19th century essay on music with original content, though freely borrowing from the the text of Noah Webster’s essay “On Vocal..... Read More about Noah Webster:] An Oration on Music. [manuscript’s caption title
![3729816] The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an all-women’s vocal trio]....](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729816.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620790153)
Publicity card for the Black women’s vocal trio of Victoria Wallace, Valerie Holiday, and Helen Scott who performed as The Three Degrees. The card, which..... Read More about The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an all-women’s vocal trio
![3729263] The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729263.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1590178591)
Rare broadside advertising this African-American albino quartet, shown performing in a minstrel array, playing the bones, the fiddle, the banjo and the tambourine. The quartet..... Read More about The Four Snow-White Albino Boys. Born of Negro Parents! As they appear in their unrivaled musical...
![3729449] [Mills Brothers:] Good-Bye Blues [and:] Say “Si Si” (Para Vigo Me Voy). Words and,...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729449.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1602698595)
Two pieces of sheet music for the Mills Brothers, popular African American jazz and pop recording artists and entertainers and inductees to the Vocal Group..... Read More about Mills Brothers:] Good-Bye Blues [and:] Say “Si Si” (Para Vigo Me Voy
![3729250] Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729250.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1586276492)
Broadside advertising regular performances of African American “Plantation Spirituals” at South Carolina’s Cypress Gardens and sung “...entirely by local colored people connected with Dean Hall..... Read More about Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of South...
![3729008] [Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra. Count Basie](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3729008.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706579646)
Advertising poster for an appearance of the Count Basie Orchestra, likely from 1985, less than a year after the death of the legendary jazz pianist..... Read More about Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra
![3728735] The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728735.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1557935479)
The all-woman trio The Eastern Girls was comprised of a banjoist, a mandolin player, and a soprano singer. All the women sang. Here they are..... Read More about The Eastern Girls [cover title
