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.
![3733124] Jazz New York. [Randall’s Island Jazz festival, August, 1956]. Don Friedman, Ken Joffe](/images/noimage-req.png)
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
![3733100] Maple Leaf Rag by King of Ragtime Writers ... Scott Joplin. Scott Joplin](/pictures/thumb/3733100_1.jpg?v=1675296440)
Born into a family of freed slaves in Texas, Scott Joplin was an accomplished pianist and American composer, widely considered to be the “King of..... Read More about Maple Leaf Rag by King of Ragtime Writers ... Scott Joplin
![3732908] Large signed 1914 photograph of Pietro Frosini playing an accordion. Pietro Frosini](/pictures/thumb/3732908_1.jpg?v=1674263192)
A sizable portrait photograph of this Sicilian virtuoso accordionist, one of the first to be recorded on an Edison cylinder record and a staple on..... Read More about Large signed 1914 photograph of Pietro Frosini playing an accordion
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
![3732870] Illusions for Piano [Morton Feldman in New Music Quarterly, July, 1950]. Morton Feldman,...](/pictures/thumb/3732870_1.jpg?v=1673561231)
First edition of Morton Fedman’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
Inscribed by the husband and wife performance artists: “To Asher, with all good vibrations in sound and light, La Monte Young Marian Zazeela, 05 X...... Read More about Sound and Light: La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela. [Inscribed by Young and Zazeela
![3731687] Ambolena Snow. An Afro-American Military Band Ballad [cover title]. By Lester Bodine,...](/pictures/thumb/3731687_1.jpg?v=1668787720)
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](/pictures/thumb/3731678_1.jpg?v=1647572606)
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
![3730998] Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie]. Director...](/pictures/thumb/3730998_1.jpg?v=1634827873)
Original 16mm public health film starring an all-Black cast and directed at young African American audiences to encourage tuberculosis testing and treatment. In this drama..... Read More about Let My People Live. [Original 16mm film for 1938 WPA Tuskegee Institute Movie
![3730812] Mammy’s Hum-Tune. A Black Key Melody for Piano. Hermene Warlick Eichhorn](/pictures/thumb/3730812_1.jpg?v=1635545107)
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
![3730621] [Guitarist and Singer Bo Diddley Jr. Publicity Agent’s Broadside]. S. Curt A. Barad, P...](/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
![3730376] [1887–1951, Collection of Hagerstown, Maryland Ephemera, mostly for Musical and Choral...](/pictures/thumb/3730376_1.jpg?v=1620684305)
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...](/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
![3725340] [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
![3729816] The Three Degrees. [caption title of publicity card for an all-women’s vocal trio]....](/pictures/thumb/3729816_1.jpg?v=1620792372)
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...](/pictures/thumb/3729263_1.jpg?v=1600902484)
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,...](/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
![3727447] African Americans and the Sacred: Spirituals, Slave Religion and Symbolism [Presentation...](/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
![3729250] Cypress Gardens Plantation Spirituals Saturday and Sunday Afternoons [opening lines of...](/pictures/thumb/3729250_1.jpg?v=1586277012)
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...
![3729234] Slave Religion, Spirituals, and C.G. Jung. Earl E. Thorpe](/pictures/thumb/3729234_1.jpg?v=1586277010)
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
![3729008] [Jazz Poster:] Upper Darby High School ... The Count Basie Orchestra. Count Basie, Upper...](/pictures/thumb/3729008_1.jpg?v=1643670322)
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](/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
![3728734] Songs and Stories of the Red Man. The Eastern Lyceum Bureau, Albert Gale, Martha Gale](/pictures/thumb/3728734_1.jpg?v=1557936748)
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
![3727953] Hampton and Its Students. By Two of Its Teachers. Mrs. M.F. Armstrong and Helen Ludlow....](/pictures/thumb/3727953_1.jpg?v=1557873223)
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...
![3727686] “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
