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Russell Shenton: “Men Of Steel”, Ryan Kelly , Editor

Applied Music Faculty Publications & Performances

F. Russell Shenton was born in Pottstown, PA in 1894. He worked for a time at Lukens Steel in Coatesville, PA before forging a career in music. He studied music at Millersville State Normal School (now Millersville University, PA) for two years before enlisting in the army during World War I, where he served from 1917-1919 in the 316 Infantry, 79th Division, beginning as a Bugler and completing his service with the rank of Musician 1st Class. He earned a Victory Medal for his service in the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. Following his discharge, he continued studying music at West Chester State …

Undecided, Quinn Dymalski

DU Undergraduate Research Journal Archive

Undecided is a big band ballad that features the baritone saxophone. It was written by Quinn Dymalski for his senior recital at the University of Denver, and was premiered on March 2nd, 2020. While the inspiration for this work comes from the styles of modern big band artists such as Quincy Jones, the harmony displays a romantic twist; seventh chords and suspensions like that of a Chopin Nocturne appear when the saxes enter at measure thirteen. The following choral-like figures written for the brass build a dramatic intensity only for the texture to be stripped down to solo bari sax …

Buckberry, Ray B., Jr., B. 1934 - Collector (Mss 685), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 685. Research material collected by Ray B. Buckberry, Jr. related to Ernest Hogan, an African American musician from Bowling Green, Kentucky, who is sometimes credited as one of the pioneers of ragtime music. He composed and wrote lyrics for numerous musical pieces for minstrel shows and published sheet music.

Frederick May's Symphonic Ballad, Mark Fitzgerald

Compositions/Arrangements

Originally entitled Sinfonietta, the Symphonic Ballad was composed for the Belfast Wireless Symphony Orchestra (later the BBC Northern Ireland Orchestra). The premiere was conducted by E Godfrey Brown on 30 August 1937. A second performance with, reduced forces, was given in a Radio Éireann broadcast on 4 September 1941 by the RÉ Orchestra conducted by Michael Bowles. At some point after this, the score of the work was mislaid and its current whereabouts is unknown. The reconstruction was made from the orchestral parts used in the 1941 performance, which are housed in the Trinity College Manuscripts and Archives Research Library. …

America Sings: An Oratorio For Mixed Choir, Brass, Percussion, Narrator, William Cates Jr.

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

I wrote this work with the nation's Bicentennial Celebration in mind. I was completed on Dec. 1, 1975. I hope the musicians who perform it will do so with the same attitude of pride in being an American that I feel and that I experienced as I wrote it.

The underlying motive, in the beginning, was to write a "Bicentennial piece" that would be totally different from other works that would be most surely coming out in the '75-'76 Bicentennial year. I chose the vocal medium first because the ability to sing is God's gift to man. It is 'natural' …

Symphony In Three Movements, Robert Lester Davis

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

A symphony in three movements with parts for

piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 4 horns(?), 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, 1 tuba, 1 timpanist, 1 cymbal, 1 triangle, 1 xylophone, 1 piano, 1 harp, violins one and two, viola, cello, and standing bass(?)

Were I, Nan Terrell Reed, Carrie Jacobs-Bond, Carrie Jacobs-Bons & Son

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A bouquet composed of a yellow and pink flowers with leaves, painted.

First line of song: Were I a leaf I'd like to be a scarlet one up on a tree,

Moderato, con moto

High

Words by Nan Terrell Reed

Music by Carrie Jacobs-Bond

Includes sheet music samples from the song "The Hand of You"

1 score, (6p.), 30x23 cm

Published by Carrie Jacobs-Bond & Son, California

A Love Song, Zelda Sears, Harold Levey, Ira Hards, Harms Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a little girl in a circular picture frame starring off into the distance, while below her a prince on a royal throne is being entertained by a man with a guitar sitting at his feet.

First line of song: The moon across thy casement, love, hath thrown a silver bar

First line of chorus: The song of yesterday is hushed in silence

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses"

Moderato (con amore)

Words by Zelda Sears

Music by Harold Levey

Henry W. Savage presents The Only Mitzi in …

I Never Miss The Sunshine (I'M So Used To The Rain), Neil Pardette, Norman Jay Harvey, Joe Morris Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A woman wearing a dress looking to the right direction holding a hat with a sunset and clouds behind her.

First line of song: You want to say goodbye, don't try to tell me why,

First line of chorus: I never miss the sunshine, I'm so used to the rain,

Moderato

Lyric by Neil Pardette

Melody by Norman Jay Harvey

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Joe Morris Music Co., New York

Orange Blossoms, Noble Cain, H. T. Fitzsimons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a girl holding a harp sitting on a blue crescent moon with stars around her.

First line of song: When the orange blossoms cling, unopened in the spring, in slumber profound and deep

First line of chorus: When the orange blossoms bloom in California, they remind me of you

Moderato grazioso

Music by Noble Cain

Orange Blossoms from Once in a Blue Moon A Musical Romance

1 score, (8p.), 31x24 cm

Published by H. T. FitzSimons, Chicago

Wonderful One, Dorothy Terriss, Paul Whiteman, Ferdie Grofe, Marshall Neilan, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A rectangular picture of a man sitting. He is wearing a suit and tie.

First line of song: My wonderful one, whenever I'm dreaming, Love's love light a gleaming, I see

Valse moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Saw Mill River Road"

Popular edition

Paul Whiteman's Sensational Waltz Hit

Words by Dorothy Terriss Author of "Three O'Clock in the Morning", etc.

Music by Paul Whiteman and Ferdie Grofe

Adapted from a Theme by Marshall Neilan

Sung by John McCormack, Victor Record NO.961

1 score, (6p), 31x23 cm

Published by Leo Feist, New York

I'M Living A Life Of Shadows (Bring Back The Sunshine To Me), William Witol, American Music Pub. Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a man sitting in a chair in front of a fireplace depressed with his head in his palm thinking about a women who is standing above the chair. A dog is standing next to his chair.

First line of song: We all can dream, love, think and scheme how to make fortune smile

First line of chorus: I'm living a life of shadows since I lost my girl

Includes sheet music sample from the songs "My Oriental Dream"

Waltz Moderato

Words and Music by William Witol

A catchy waltz melody

1 score, (6p.), 30x23 cm …

I Cried For You Now It's Your Turn To Cry Over Me, Arthur Freed, Gus Arnheim, Abe Lyman, Sherman, Clay & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of stripes and flowers.

First line of song: I remember other days how I used to weep over things you said to me I couldn't even sleep.

First line of chorus: I cried for you now it's your turn to cry over me

Includes sheet music samples from the songs " After Every Party" and "Other Lips"

Moderato

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Sherman, Clay & Co., San Francisco

Deep In Someone's Heart, Zelda Sears, Harold Levey, Ira Hards, Julian Alfred, Harms Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a girl looking off to the corner in a circular picture frame. Below her a man on a raised platform is sitting cross crossed watching another man play the guitar.

First line of song: Woman's place they say is in the home.

First line of chorus: Deep in someone's heart, there to dwell apart

Moderato

Words by Zelda Sears

Music by Harold Levey

Henry W. Savage presents The Only Mitzi in "The Magic Ring" A Fantastic Comedy With Music

Staged by Ira Hards

Dances arranged by Julian Alfred

Book and Lyrics by Ira Hards

1 …

Who's Sorry Now, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, Ted Snyder, Waterson, Berlin, & Snyder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a young couple. The boy is wearing a suite and holding a hat and the girl is in a dress wearing a hat holding an umbrella down to her side. There are trees and flowers in the background. There is a big circular portrait of Josef Diskay in the middle.

First line of song: You smiled when we parted, It hurt me somehow, I thought there was nothing worth while.

First line of chorus: Who's sorry now? Who's sorry now? Who's heart is aching for breaking each vow?

Valse moderato

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples …

Sunshine Of Mine "I Call You Sunshine", Jack Chapmane, Harry Kelly, Art Beiner, Ted Browne Music Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a women in a dress with a big skirt bottom holding a bird, while another flies above it. There is a fountain of to the right.

First line of song: Mary, you're a wonder dear you came like a summer's day

First line of chorus: I call you sunshine you came just like sunshine.

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Ireland Is Heaven To Me" and "I'm Drifting Back to Dreamland"

Moderato

By Jack Chapman, Harry Kelly, & Art Beiner

Respectfully Dedicated to Miss Mary Murray of Chicago, Ill.

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm …

Nine O' Clock Sal, Jack Leroy, Billy Hays, Jim Leary, Nelson Ingham, Joe Morris Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman standing, in a dress, resting her arm on a picture of a men's orchestra. A sign in the picture identifies them as the Unique Orchestra from Ft. Wayne, Indiana. The other arm resting under her chin. Also there is a clock striking 9 o'clock in the upper right corner.

First line of song: Back in the town I was born in, folks go to bed about nine

First line of chorus: Nine o'clock Sal, nine o'clock pal, you're just the girl for me

Moderato

Includes sheet music sample form the song "Just For …

Tripping Along (With You And Me), Jerry Sullivan, Harry Hosford, Jack Mills Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of an orchestra.

First line of song: I have looked around, now at last you're found.

First line of chorus: Tripping along our merry way, tripping along all thru the day

Valse moderato

Includes sheet music samples from songs "It's a Man (Ev'ry Time) It's a Man", "That Golondrina Melody", "Miami Moon", "Dream Away", "Smile Again Kathleen Mavourneen", and "Out Where The Blue Begins"

Words and Music by Jerry Sullivan and Harry Hosford

Frank Westphal and his Orchestra

Big Radio Hit

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

Published by Jack Mills Inc, New York

Every Night I Cry Myself To Sleep Over You, Howard Johnson, Leo. Wood, Irving Bibo, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front Cover: A picture of a girl in bed crying holding a letter. Portrait of a man in the lower right corner.

First line of song: Nights are long and life's all wrong since you went away

First line of chorus: Every night I cry myself to sleep over you

Moderato

Slowly

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Saw Mill River Road", "Linger Awhile", and "When Lights Are Low"

Words and Music by Howard Johnson, Leo. Wood, and Irving Bibo

Popular Edition

Successfully Introduced by Stuart Barrie famous organist

1 score, (6p), 31x23 cm

Published by Leo Feist, New …

Swingin' Down The Lane, Gus Kahn, Isham Jones, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a couple walking down a pathway lined with trees with a house off to the back. Includes a portrait of a man in a rectangular box with the words Isham Jones.

First line of song: There's a nightingale callin out where moon-beans are fallin

First line of chorus: Everybody hand in hand, swingin down the lane, everybody feelin' grand

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "River Shannon Moon", "Crying For You", "Wonderful One"

Lyric by Gus Kahn

Music by Isham Jones

Popular Edition

An Old Fashioned Song With a Fox Trot Swing

"You …

Who Cares?, Jack Yellen, Milton Ager, Ager, Yellen & Bornstein, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a man in a tux.

First line of song: Everybody has got somebody to tell their troubles to

First line of chorus: Who cares if my heart is aching?

Moderato

Words by Jack Yellen

Music by Milton Ager

Al. Jolson's Sensational Hit in Messrs. Lee & J.J. Shubert's Production of the Musical Extravaganza "Bombo"

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Ager, Yellen & Bornstein, Inc, New York

By The Sapphire Sea, Harry B. Smith, Francis Wheeler, Ted Snyder, Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A couple sitting by an ocean with palm trees, flowers and the moon in the sky. The man is wearing a tuxedo and the women is is wearing an evening gown.

First Line of song: Somewhere over there by the Sapphire Sea, The whispering palm trees are calling me;

First line of chorus: Merrily we'll sail up on the Sapphire Sea, To a little isle where happy we will be,

Moderato

Includes Fox-Trot Chorus

Words by Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler

Music by Ted Snyder

1 score, (6p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co., …

My Cradle Melody Just Carries Me Back To Old Virginia, Joe Young, Sam M. Lewis, Geo W. Meyer, Irving Berlin, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of big fluffy clouds above a pastor, trees and a house with a chimney

First line of song: When it's time for sleeping, That's the time I'm weeping

First line of chorus: My cradle melody just carries me back to Old Virginia back to a land without a care

Moderato con molto espressione

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Kicky-Koo-Kicky-Koo You For Me- Me For You", "Just A Little Love Song", "You Can Have Every Light On Broadway Give Me that One Little Light at Home"

Words by Joe Young & Sam M. Lewis

Music …

Why Should I Cry Over You?, Ned Miller, Chester Cohn, Leo Feist Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman in a pink rectangular picture frame looking off to the far corner with the words Margie Coate, and a faded outline of a couple kissing under the moonlight with flowers around them.

First line of song: You said goodbye, I wonder why and our romance was through

First line of chorus: I don't know why I should cry over you, sigh over you, even be blue

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Three O'clock in the Morning", and "Swanee River Moon"

Waltz Ballad with Fox Trot Chorus

Words and Music by Ned …

The West, A Nest And You, Larry Yoell, Billy Hill, Sherman, Clay, & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A couple holding each other on the left side watching a sunset falling behind a mountain and a baby crawling to the right to get a toy.

First line of song: I have dreamed my dreams and I have schemed my schemes and I have built my castles in the air

First line of chorus: The west, a nest, and you dear Oh what a dream 'twould be A cozy little cottage

Andante Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Sleep" and "Others Lips"

By Larry Yoell and Billy Hill

Words by Larry Yoell

Music by Billy …

The Enchanted Glade, G. Hubi-Newcombe, Lois Barker, Boosey & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: Night, and a wooing bird, night, and the echoes

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "The Voyagers", "In Springtime", "Wicked Cupid", "Even-Song", "The Garden Of Your Heart", and "In A Garden Of Roses"

Moderato lento

Lento Soprano or Tenor

Contralto or Baritone

Piu mosso

Arranged as duet for Soprano or Tenor and Contralto of Baritone

The words by G. Hubi-Newcombe

The Music by Lois Barker

1 score, (8p.), 29x23 cm

Published by Boosey & Co, New York

Trees, Joyce Kilmer, Oscar Rasbach, G. Schirmer, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a big oak tree in a field

First line of song: I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree

Andante

Poem by Joyce Kilmer

Music by Oscar Rasbach

Medium Voice

Dedicated to Mrs. L. L. Krebs

1 score, (4p.), 30x23 cm

Published by G. Schirmer, Inc, New York

Can't Remember, Herbert J. Brandon, Alma Goatley, Enoch & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: Can't remember getting doleful; can't remember feeling sad.

Includes sheet music samples from the songs" Come, Sing To Me", and "I passed by your Window"

The Lyric by Herbert J. Brandon

The Music by Alma Goatley

First line of chorus: Can't remember

Played in Eb

Adante moderato (happily)

1 score, (8p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Enoch & Sons., London

My Creed, Howard Arnold, Elizabeth Garrett, Gambler Hinged Mucis Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No Front Cover

First line of song: I would be true, for there are those that trust me,

Andante Moderato

p expressivo

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "There's a Song in the Woods for You" and "A Thought"

Words by Howard Arnold Walter

Music by Elizabeth Garrett

1 score, (6p.), 31x24 cm

Published by Gambler Hinged Mucis Co., Chicago

I Like It, Aileen Stanly, Charles N. Grant, Irving Berlin Inc.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman in a diamond shaped border with the words Aileen Stanly



First line of song: Mary Greene seventeen Mother's only child

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Home Again Blues", "Rosie Make It Rosy For Me', and "Drowsy Head"

Standard Edition

Sincerely Aileen Stanly

First line of chorus: I'm gonna do it if I like it and I like it

Arranged by Charles N. Grant

Moderato

1 score, (6p.), 31x23 cm

Published by Irving Berlin Inc., New York