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Mother O' Mine!, Rudyard Kipling, Frank E. Tours, Chappelle & Co Jan 1903

Mother O' Mine!, Rudyard Kipling, Frank E. Tours, Chappelle & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of bold black and white text

First line of song: If I were hang'd on the highest hill

First line of chorus: Mother o'Mine

Adagio

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Crooning Water", "The Reason", "Little Brown Bird", and "Wanderer's Song"

Words by Rudyard Kipling

Music by Frank E. Tours

Dedicated to My Mother

Includes the words to Rudyard Kipling's poem: Mother o'Mine

Played in Bb

1 score, (8p), 30x23 cm

Published by Chappell & Co, New York

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Dear Old Girl, Richard Henry Buck, Theodore Morse, Theodore Morse Music Co. Jan 1903

Dear Old Girl, Richard Henry Buck, Theodore Morse, Theodore Morse Music Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: 'Twas a sunny day in June, when the birds were all in tune, and the songs they sang all seemed to be of you

First line of chorus: Dear old girl, the robin sings above you

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "That's Why The Violets Live" and "If This Rose You All It Knows"

Andante moderato

Chorus: Espressivo

Words by Richard Henry Buck

Music by Theodore Morse

1 score, (6p.) 33x26 cm

Published by Theodore Morse Music Co., New York

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When God Puts Out The Light, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son Jan 1901

When God Puts Out The Light, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: An picture of a decorative underlining border

First line of song: There is a stillness, but it is not death, when life and light depart

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "The Hand of You", "I Love You Truly", "I've Done My Work"

Moderato espressivo

Sacred Songs by Carrie Jacobs-Bond

To Mr. and Mrs. Whitney

1 score, (8p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son, Chicago

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If No One Ever Marries Me, Laurence Alma Tadema, Liza Lehmann, Boosey & Co. Jan 1900

If No One Ever Marries Me, Laurence Alma Tadema, Liza Lehmann, Boosey & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: If no one ever marries me, and I don't see why they should,

Allegretto

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "In An Old-Fashioned Town"

Sung by Mme Galli-Curci

Song from The Daisy Chain (Cycle of Twelve Songs of Childhood)

The words by Laurence Alma Tadema

The music by Liza Lehmann

1 score, (8p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Boosey and Co., New York

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Danny Deever, Walter Damrosch, Rudyard Kipling, The John Church Company Jan 1897

Danny Deever, Walter Damrosch, Rudyard Kipling, The John Church Company

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a decorative rectangular border

First line of song: What are the bugles for? Said files-on-parade; To turn you out, to turn you out

First line of chorus: For they're done with Danny Deever, you can 'ear the quick- step- play

Vivo

Tempo di Marcia funebre

Alla marcia

Songs by Walter Damrosch

To Mr. David Bispham

Ballad for Baritone and Male Chorus (ad libitum)

Words by Rudyard Kipling

1 score, (12p.), 30x23 cm

Published by The John Church Company, Cincinnati, New York, Chicago

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A Dream (Songs By J.C. Bartlett), J. C. Bartlett, Charles B. Cory, Oliver Ditson Company Jan 1895

A Dream (Songs By J.C. Bartlett), J. C. Bartlett, Charles B. Cory, Oliver Ditson Company

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: Flowery border

First line of song: Last night I was dreaming, of thee love was dreaming, I dream'd thou did'st promise we never should part

Moderato

To Miss Gertrude Edmands

J. C. Bartlett

Charles B. Cory

Mez. Sop. in F

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm

Published by Oliver Ditson Company, Boston

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Forgotten, Oliver Ditson Company Jan 1894

Forgotten, Oliver Ditson Company

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a rose flowered rectangular border

First line of song: Forgotten you? Well, if forgetting be thinking all the day

Mary Kavanagh

Eugene Cowles

Original Key, F

1 score, (6p.), 33x26 cm

Published by Oliver Ditson Company, Boston

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Dream Lullaby, National Music Company Jan 1893

Dream Lullaby, National Music Company

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman sleeping in a garden of flowers while baby angels cover her with flowers and vines. A book, candle and mandolin are on the ground next to her.

First line of song: I dreamed a dream I tho't the stars were shining, and quiet nature lost in nights repose

Moderato, Cantabile

Charles D. Castle

1 score, (6p.), 35x26 cm

Published by National Music Company, Chicago

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The Holy City, F. E. Weatherly, Stephen Adams, Boosey & Co Jan 1892

The Holy City, F. E. Weatherly, Stephen Adams, Boosey & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: Last night I lay a sleeping, there came a dream so fair, I stood in old Jerusalem beside the temple there

Andante moderato

Words by F. E. Weatherly

Music by Stephen Adams

With organ accompaniment

No. 2 in Bb

1 score, (10p.), 33x25 cm

Published by Boosey & Co, New York

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The Holy City, Stephen Adams, Boosey & Co Jan 1892

The Holy City, Stephen Adams, Boosey & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover

First line of song: Last night I lay a sleeping, there from Heav'n in answer rang, Jerusalem! Jerusalem!

Andante moderato

Stephen Adams

1 score, (4p.), 33x25 cm

Published by Boosey & Co, New York

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The Sweetest Story Ever Told (Tell Me, Do You Love Me), R. M. Stults, Oliver Ditson Company Jan 1892

The Sweetest Story Ever Told (Tell Me, Do You Love Me), R. M. Stults, Oliver Ditson Company

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A couple standing by a stone wall looking to the left side and the man is giving the lady a rose. A church can be seen in the background.

First line of song: Oh, answer me a question, love, I pray,

First line of chorus: Tell me, do you love me? Tell me softly, sweetly, as of old.

High Voice in G

Andante

Expressivo

Tempo di Gavotte

Song by R. M. Stults

Dedicated to Miss Mirella

Words and Music by R. M. Stults

1 score, (6p.), 33x25 cm

Published by Oliver Ditson Company, Boston

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The Warlike Dead In Mexico, C. Holt Jr. Dec 1847

The Warlike Dead In Mexico, C. Holt Jr.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: On the left side of the cover are four battle scenes one on top of the other. The scenes as stated in the caption accompanying each picture, going from top to bottom, are listed as: Monterey, Buena Vista, Cerro Gordo and Vera Cruz. At the bottom of the page is another battle scene identified only as "Mexico" according to caption. Each of the battle scenes are surrounded by highly decorative borders and scrolls. At the top of the cover is an eagle holding a shield surrounded by flags and decorative scrolling. Above the eagle are the words "We …

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Buena Vista Polka, Antonio Barili, A. Fiot Dec 1847

Buena Vista Polka, Antonio Barili, A. Fiot

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

Composed for the piano and dedicated to Mademoiselle Jane Jaancey

1 score, (6p.), 33x25 cm

Published by A. Fiot; Philadelphia

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Storming Of Monterey, Francis Buck, F. D. Benteen Dec 1845

Storming Of Monterey, Francis Buck, F. D. Benteen

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front Cover: Depiction of a battle scene from the storming of Monterey which occurred on September 21st, 22nd, & 23nd 1846. In the sketched image, soldiers on horseback are looking over a field of soldiers in the heat of battle. There is a town and mountains in the foreground.

First line: Reconnoiter of the enemy's works under cover of a detachment of volunteers and regulars.

Moderato

A descriptive Military Waltz composed and dedicated to General I. Taylor and Officers of the American Army in Mexico

Lithograph by E. Weber & Co. Balt

1 score, (6p.), 35x28

Published by F.D. Benteen; …

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Grand Triumphant March In The Battle Of Palo Alto (Palo Alto Grand March), Thomas H. Chambers, S. W. Bassford, Wm. Vanderbeek Dec 1845

Grand Triumphant March In The Battle Of Palo Alto (Palo Alto Grand March), Thomas H. Chambers, S. W. Bassford, Wm. Vanderbeek

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: Five battle scenes around a man sitting on a horse wearing a military uniform

Musical Notes only

Composed and respectfully dedicated to the Memory of Major Ringold

Arranged by S. W. Bassford

Lithograph of Sarony & Major, New York

Tempo di Marcia

1 score, (2p.), 33x24 cm

Published by Wm. Vanderbeek, New York

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Gen. Worth's Quick Step, T. Bissell, Wm. H. Oakes Dec 1845

Gen. Worth's Quick Step, T. Bissell, Wm. H. Oakes

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A war scene showing soldiers walking into battle with bayonets fixed. One soldier is kneeling down firing his weapon. There is another soldier on a horse. The American flag and one other flag can be seen in the middle of the image.

Music Composed and respectfully dedicated to the gallant Major General Worth, U.S.A.

1 score, (4p.), 33x26 cm

Published by Wm. H. Oakes, Washington

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Major Ringold's Funeral March, Osbourn's Music Saloon Dec 1845

Major Ringold's Funeral March, Osbourn's Music Saloon

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art.

Musical notes only

Selected from a celebrated subject of Beethoven.

Andantino

1 score, (2p.), 33x24 cm

Published by Osbourn's Music Saloon, Philadelphia

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