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.
A “plantation song” or imitative Black American spiritual (“Roll on, ole Jordan…”) here used as a lullaby. The music was written by Hermene Warlick Eichhorn..... Read More about Mammy’s Hum-Tune. A Black Key Melody for Piano
![Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside]. S. Curt A. Barad, P Management](/pictures/thumb/3730621_1.jpg?v=1625105119)
Publicity and concert booking promotional sheet for Bo Diddley Jr., “master blues and R&B guitarist and singer.” Born David Hill Jr., Diddley was given his..... Read More about Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside
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
![When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Presented by the Whitney Opera Company. [cover title]. Julian...](/pictures/thumb/3730089_1.jpg?v=1614648605)
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
![Noah Webster:] An Oration on Music. [manuscript’s caption title]. Unkwn](/pictures/thumb/3725340_1.jpg?v=1614219483)
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
Publicity photograph, with condition issues, of the hip-hop duo Da-Lite and Kool Keem who performed as Better Knowledge. From the contact telephone numbers, the duo..... Read More about Publicity Photograph for Hip-Hop Artists Da-Lite and Kool Keem performing as Better Knowledge,...
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...
![Mills Brothers:] Good-Bye Blues [and:] Say “Si Si” (Para Vigo Me Voy). Words and, Dorothy...](/pictures/thumb/3729449_1.jpg?v=1602700795)
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
Subtitle: “King of the Twelve-String Guitar Players of the World, Long-Time Convict in the Penitentiaries of Texas and Louisiana.” The oral autobiography of Huddie Ledbetter..... Read More about Negro Folk Songs as Sung by Lead Belly
Popular ante-bellum minstrel song Uncle Ned, here issued as a post-Civil War penny song sheet. The song-poem comprises three quatrains and a quatrain chorus. Although..... Read More about Uncle Ned. As Sung by de Colored Society in General
![African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation Copy]....](/pictures/thumb/3727447_1.jpg?v=1586388383)
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
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...
An unusual self-published work, inscribed and signed by the author, intersecting the culture, music, and life of African Americans with the world of Jungian psychology..... Read More about Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C.G. Jung
![Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......](/pictures/thumb/3727448_1.jpg?v=1586277004)
Program for an evening’s entertainment of song, spoken word, and a theatrical performance given jointly by students of Cheyney Normal School, an historically Black college..... Read More about Leslie Pinckney Hill:] Cheyney-Dunbar Recital. Chester High School Auditorium ... 1928 ......
![18th Century American choir music:] To the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the first Parish...](/pictures/thumb/3729182_1.jpg?v=1581355748)
Document signed by ten members of the First Church in Roxbury, in Massachusetts, petitioning their fellow citizens and parishioners for funding to cover some of..... Read More about 18th Century American choir music:] To the Freeholders and other Inhabitants of the first Parish...
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
![The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau](/pictures/thumb/3728735_1.jpg?v=1557936748)
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
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
Story, mission, progress, and multiple descriptions and viewpoints of life at Virginia’s Hampton Institute for African Americans and Native Americans; this title published almost a...... Read More about Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow. With...
![“The Folk Songs of Our Southern Negro.” [College Term Paper]. Mary Louise Fryberger](/pictures/thumb/3727686_1.jpg?v=1554822721)
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
Small broadside promoting an all-African American musical line-up for a July 4th holiday weekend musical concert for returning Gulf War veterans. Appearing at the concert—held..... Read More about Bay-Bay Promotions—Presents a—Welcome Back Home! Persian Gulf Heroes with a Holiday Blues...
Talley, an African American professor at Fisk University, presents an exhaustive compilation of Black American folk rhymes followed by an almost one hundred-page scholarly interpretation..... Read More about Negro Folk Rhymes. Wise and Otherwise. With a Study
Introduction by Archibald Rutledge. With photographs by Carl Julien. Photos and poems that document the songs and daily life of the “gullah Negroes” of South..... Read More about The Song of the Cotton Picker
![I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua]. lyrics Ruth Florence, Johnny Noble,...](/pictures/thumb/3727825_1.jpg?v=1540930806)
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
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...
