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.
![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
![3733850] Orlando Reporter-Star, Newsboys Band, Souvenir Booklet, Orlando Florida… [cover...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733850.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1724632986)
Rare illustrated souvenir program for a boys’ band sponsored by Orlando’s Reporter-Star newspaper. The 9 to 13-year-old newspaper boys performed in Central Florida during summers..... Read More about Orlando Reporter-Star, Newsboys Band, Souvenir Booklet, Orlando Florida… [cover title
![3733573] Frank I. Frayne Free Songster ... The Great Western Dramas. Frank I. Fayne](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
![3733124] Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956]. Don Friedman, Ken Joffe](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3733124.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1675869930)
Essays and photographs published on the occasion of the 1956 Randall’s Island Jazz Festival with performances by Billie Holliday, Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Count Basie..... Read More about Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956
![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 first piano work (1950) to appear in print, one of his earliest compositions and one of his earliest published works..... Read More about Illusions for Piano [Morton Feldman in New Music Quarterly, July, 1950
![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
![3731678] Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer. photographer Eddie Birch](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3731678.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1647207129)
Signed publicity photograph of Dizzy Gillespie (1917–1993), showing him holding his iconic trumpet with its bell bent upward. Gillespie is noted for his bebop style..... Read More about Dizzy Gillespie Signed Photograph, Jazz Trumpeter and Composer
![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
![3727447] African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3727447.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1586386793)
Study of African-American psychology and religion and their influence on the slave songs or “spirituals” of the South by this noted Black historiographer, academic, and..... Read More about African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy
![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, Upper...](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
![3728734] Songs and Stories of the Red Man. The Eastern Lyceum Bureau, Albert Gale, Martha Gale](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3728734.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1557935480)
A white couple on the speaking and Chautauqua circuits, Albert and Martha Gale, billing themselves as remarkable musicians dress up as native Americans and perform..... Read More about Songs and Stories of the Red Man
![3727686] “The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper]. Mary Louise Fryberger](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3727686.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1554316001)
College paper by a Smith College student writing of African-American musical tradition as seen from her perspective. The author puts forth the opening ideas that..... Read More about “The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper
![3727825] I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua]. lyrics Ruth Florence, Johnny...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3727825.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1540850500)
Sheet music for Ruth Florence’s I’ll Come Sailing Home to You with music for piano and ukulele by King Kalakaua and Johnny Noble, both honorees..... Read More about I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua
![146343] [Collection of Eighteenth-Century Secular French Sheet Music bound up and kept by...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/146343.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1539111838)
A young Philadelphian in Paris: a bound volume of sixty-four compositions for contra dance, guitar, etc. kept by Samuel Breck, Jr. (1771–1862), the merchant, politician..... Read More about Collection of Eighteenth-Century Secular French Sheet Music bound up and kept by Philadelphian...
![3727757] 1920 Thomas Alva Edison Signed Manuscript Laboratory Note. “Edison”, Thomas...](https://rareamericana.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3727757.jpg?width=320&height=480&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1645143614)
1920 Typed laboratory note by Thomas Edison, phonograph inventor, concerning moulds for his company’s proprietary “Edison Disc Phonograph” records. Edison gives detailed instructions on maintaining..... Read More about 1920 Thomas Alva Edison Signed Manuscript Laboratory Note
