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My Little Dream Girl, L. Wolfe Gilbert, Anatol Friedland, Jos. W. Stern & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A girl in a dress sitting on a white box surrounded by flowery branches

First line of song: The night time, the night time is calling me

First line of chorus: My little dream girl, you pretty dream girl, sometimes I seem, girl, to own your heart

Moderato

Duplex Edition

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "My Sweet Adair"

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Open Up Your Heart"

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Painting That Mother Of Mine"

Lyric by L. Wolfe Gilbert. Writer of "Robert E. Lee," Beautiful Eyes," etc.

Music by …

My Sweet Adair, L. Wolfe Gilbert, Anatol Friedland, D. Onivas, Jos. W. Stern & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman in a long white dress standing next to some flowers.

First line of song: There's the nicest little club house down my way

First line of chorus: Adair my sweet Adair I dare you to be

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Duplex Edition

Includes sheet music samples from the songs"Open Up Your Heart"

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "My Little Dream Girl"

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Painting That Mother of Mine"

By L. Wolfe Gilbert and Anatol Friedland. Writers of the World Famous Hit "My Little Dream Girl"

Arranged by D. Onivas …

Down Among The Sheltering Palms, James Brockman, Abe Olman, Al. Jolson, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of palm trees with a steam ship out on the ocean. In the bottom right corner is a portrait of a man in a suit with the caption Al. Jolson

First line of song: I'm way down east, down east, and my heart is pining, pining for you

First line of chorus: Down among the sheltering palms, O honey, wait for me, O honey wait for me

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Words by James Brockman

Music by Abe Olman

Popular Edition

Al. Jolson

Al. Jolson's Sensational Hit

Revised Edition

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Leo Feist, New …

Volume 32, Number 12 (December 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

What Mozart Could Do as a Child

America's Greatest Musical Need (Symposium)

Personal Initiative in Piano Study (interview with Theodore Leschetisky)

Some Leschetizky Principles of Piano Playing

How They Used to Study in the Olden Days

How to Make Piano Playing Interesting

Remarkable Contrast in Salon Music

Vitality in Teaching

Convenience and Comfort in the Home for Retired Music Teachers

Leopold Auer's Principles of Violin Playing

Plea for the Most American of Instruments

Harmony That is Not Harmony

Artistic Piano Touch and How to Achieve It

European Musical Topics in War Times

Musical Frauds and Fictions

German and Italian Influences …

Volume 32, Number 11 (November 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Music in Canada

Edward MacDowell as a Teacher of Pianoforte: How the Most Eminent of American Composers Gave Instruction at the Keyboard

Waiting for Inspiration

What is America's Greatest Musical Need? A Symposium by Eminent American Musicians

Romance of Stephen Collins Foster

Three Principles of Musical Memorizing

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Wm. Mason

Interesting Studies in Piano Touch

Legion of Music Workers in America: A Wonderful Record Which Should Stir the Patriotic Pride of All American Music Lovers

To-morrow in American Music (interview with John Philip Sousa)

How to Develop Sight-Reading

Musical War Code Puzzle

How to Make Piano …

Volume 32, Number 10 (October 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Opening the Season: Ideas Mined from Real Teaching Experience

Common Sense at the Pupils' Recital

Opera and Tunes

Save Beethoven from his Friends

Beginning Work in Interpretation

Which is the Better Teacher—The Virtuoso Without Teaching Experience or the Experienced Teacher Who Does Not Pretend to be a Brilliant Performer? (symposium)

Waltz King

Salon Music of the Past and Present

Best of the new Music Issued by the Leading Publishers

How Shall I Go About Publishing My Piece? Advice and Warning

Scale Playing in Double Notes

Playing for Nothing

Key to Teaching Efficiency

Some Interesting Facts About Frederick Kuhlau

Long Distance …

Volume 32, Number 09 (September 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tributes to the Memory of Hans Engelmann: Widely Loved Composer of Over 3000 Pianoforte Pieces

Salon and Its Music in France

Adjusting Technic to the Daily Needs

Dance Yesterday and To-Day

Sigismund Thalberg: Prince of the Salon

Preparing the Mind for Active Mental Work

Importance of the Speaking Voice to Singers

Developing the Greatest Possible Volocity in Scale Playing

Fifth Triennial Congress of the International Musical Society

Are We Diseased with Tremelo?

More About Standardization

Law and the Profits

Chord Playing Made Simple

Etude Master Study Page—The Strauss Family

Advantage of Psychology to Piano Teachers

Some Pupils We Meet

Most …

Volume 32, Number 08 (August 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Tributes to the Memory of Hans Engelmann

Raising Your Rate of Tuition

Chief Musical Forces of the Nineteenth Century

Busy Teacher

Debussy's Unconventionality

Plea for More Rational Teaching

Star of Technic

Credit to the Conservatory

Coming of the Minnesingers

Between Lesson Thoughts

Musical Thought and Action in the Old World

French Opera in America

Seeing with a Child's Eyes

Awakening and Developing Musical Ability

Economize in Energy

Awakening Interest in Dull Pupils

Tone Production by Means of the Pressure Touch

Diplomacy and the Interfering Mother

Making Music Interesting to the General Public: What 3000 Pianoforte Recitals Have Taught Me

Lending …

Volume 32, Number 07 (July 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Putting the Thumb Under

Elgar's Self-Instruction

Noble Contempt for Melody

Can There Be Any Really New Music?

Concert Pitch

Significant Phases of Modern French Music

Piano Technic of the Past, Present and Future

Ear Training for Young Pianists

Getting a Start in the Concert Field

Correcting the Stiff Wrist

Selecting the Right Instruction Book

Constant Growth in Music Study (interview with Katharine Goodson)

On Marking Pupils' Music

Making the Study of Pieces Attractive

Garden of Composers: How to Give an Outdoor Recital

Practical Concentration in Piano Study

Etude Master Study Page: Rossini

Home Music Culture Hour

Finding Profit in Scale …

Volume 32, Number 06 (June 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Making Drill Interesting

Helpful Pedal Exercise

Appreciation of Contemporary Music (interview with Claude Debussy)

Scales and the Child

High Teaching Ideals of American Musical Pedagogs

Qualifications for Positions in Summer Hotel Orchestras

Nature of the Difference Between the Classical and the Romantic Schools

Teaching the Lines and Spaces

Point in Musical History

Begin Music Study Early

Concentration in Music Study (interview with Olga Samaroff)

Have I Real Talent?

Leading the Pupil to See the Beauty of it All

Diagnosing the Talents of the New Pupil

Interesting Aspects of the Romances of Frederic Chopin

Art of Transposing

How the Music Teachers …

Volume 32, Number 05 (May 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

First Studies in Double Notes

Memorizing Music Successfully (interview with Ossip Gabrilowitsch)

How Gounod Surprised Berlioz

Charles Marie Widor: Dean of French Organ Masters

Method in Sight Reading

Balance in Rhythmic Movement

Study Harmony from Piano Playing

Wit of Malibran

Best of the New Music Issued by the Leading Publishers: Selected, Graded and Recommended to The Etude Readers

Prima Donna of To-Day and Yesterday

Interesting the Boy Pupil

Chopin as a Virtuoso: How Chopin's Playing Impressed His Hearers

Ballet in France

Masters Who Have Failed as Opera Composers

Musical Thought and Action in the Old World

How to Develop Concentration …

Volume 32, Number 04 (April 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

School Debussy Has Established

Personal Recollections of Gounod (interview with Emma Eames)

Grand Prix de Rome and Those Who Have Won It

Concise Dictionary of French Musicians

What the Piano Student is Expected to Accomplish at the Paris Conservatoire

Intimate View of Massenet

Rise of Modern French Music

Some Points for Beginner-Teachers

Tragic Career of Bizet

Arrest Richard Wagner

Disseminating General Musical Knowledge in Country Districts and Small Towns

Etude Master Study Page—The Real Saint-Saëns

Brief History of Music in France

Salaries Paid the Teachers at the Paris Conservatory

Development of Accuracy in Pianoforte Playing

How Paderewski Practiced

How to …

Volume 32, Number 03 (March 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Some Devices that Make Sight Reading Easy

Chopin's Last Surviving Pupil Gives Recollections of His Master

Leading the Pupil to Think While Practicing (interview with Harold Bauer)

Comfort at the Keyboard

Self-Development and Piano Playing

Mozart's Personal Appearance

Pioneers of American Music

Ornamentation in Music

Pros and Cons of Correspondence Instruction in Music: A Far Reaching Symposium on a Much Discussed Subject

Some Things the Student Should Know about Mozart's Works

Liszt's Original Compositions

Music and Abstract Ideas

Foundation Stones of Good Piano Technic

Tragic Character of the Music of Russia

Recollections of Celebrated Musicians (interview with Henry Schradieck)

Exercises …

Volume 32, Number 01 (January 1914), James Francis Cooke

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

New Year's Greetings form Well Known American Composers

Talk with the Girl Who Would be a Prima Donna (interview with Nellie Melba)

Cheerfulness in the Lesson

To the Memory of Mathilde Marchesi, 1826-1913

Physical Side of Technical Development

Progress in Music Study (interview with Emil Sauer)

Musical Thought and Action Abroad

Pupils from a Farming District

Hints in Teaching Sight-reading

Attaining Technical Proficiency

To-day with Mozart in Salzburg

Lesson in Exact Terminology

Dot and the Double Dot

Operatic Choral Prayer

Recent Progress in Teaching Methods

Story of the Famous Singer Who Gave Richard Wagner His Ideals

Is Musical Theory Necessary? …

You Are The Rose Of My Heart, Andrew K. Allison, James Kendis, Maurice Richmond Music Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a title in old Gothic text.

First line of song: I had a wonderful dream, dear, a garden so deary I saw

First line of chorus: You are the rose of my heart, dear, you are my sunshine

Valse Lento

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "What Do You Want With Me?"

Words by Andrew K. Allison

Music By James Kendis

Medium

1 score, (8p), 34x26 cm

Published by Maurice Richmond Music Co, New York

When I Come Back To Erin (I Am Coming For You), Will Callahan, Blanche M. Tice, Blanche M. Tic Music Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A man sitting in a chair staring to the right at a lady in the corner.

First line of song: Colleen tonight I'm dreaming of you,

First line of chorus: When I come back to Erin I am coming for you,

Valse Andte

Refrain Slowly

Chorus for male or mixed voices.

Lyric by J. Will Callahan

Music by Blanche M. Tice

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

Published by Blanche M. Tic Music Co., Iowa

You're Here And I'M Here, Harry B. Smith, Jerome D. Kern, Arthur Behim, Leo Feist, Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A man in a suit and tie

First line of song: We two are traveling in love land today, we gone astray and lost our way

First line of chorus: You're here and I'm here, so what do we care?

Moderato con grazia

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Over The Alpine Mountains",and "When You Wore A Tulip And I Wore A Big Rose"

Charles Frohman presents Donald Brian in The Marriage Market

Lyric By Harry B. Smith

Operatic Edition

Music By Jerome D. Kern

Also published as a One-Step, Two-Step or Trot as introduced and featured …

When You're Away, Henry Blossom, Victor Herbert, Fred G. Latham, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A portrait of a woman in a circle in the top left corner with a couple of flowers.

First line of song: Thought time may let us sometimes forget,

Moderato

Allergo

Joe Weber Offers the Only Girl A Musical Farcial Comedy

The Book and Lyrics by Henry Blossom

The Music by Victor Herbert

Staged by Fred G. Latham

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

Published by M. Witmark & Sons, New York

God Of All Nature (Laurel Octavo), M. Teresa Armitage, Peter I. Tschaikowsky, Bertha Remick, C. C. Birchard & Company

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art.

First line of song: God of the dawning, God of the noontime,

Andante cantabile, con alcuna licenza

Alto Solo

2nd Soprano, Alto

2nd time piu f

ff slower

The Laurel Octavo God of All Nature From the Andante of Tchaikovsky's 5th Symphony

Text by M. Teresa Armitage

Peter I. Tschaikowsky

Mixed Voice arrangement No. 514

Arranged by Bertha Remick

1 score, (8p.), 27x17 cm

Published by C. C. Birchard & Company, Massachusetts

On The 5.15, Stanley Murphy, Henry I. Marshall, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a wall with train schedules listed, includes cities, departure times and prices.

First line of song: Talk about your subway, Talk about your 'L" Talk about your street car lines as well

First line of chorus: Oh, the five fifteen! Hear the whistle blowin'! Oh, the five fifteen.

Includes sheet music samples from the song "Chinatown, My Chinatown" and "Wrap Me In A Bundle"

Lyric by Stanley Murphy

Music by Henry I. Marshall

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

Published by Jerome H. Remick & Co, New York

O Perfect Love, D. F. Blomfield, H. T. Burleigh, Theo. Presser Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: no cover art

First line of song: O perfect Love, all human thought transcending, lowly we kneel in pray'r before Thy throne

First line of chorus: O perfect Love! O perfect Life!

To Miss Dora J. Cole, Philadelphia, Pa. June 15, 1904.

Wedding Song

Words by D.F. Blomfield

Music by H.T. Burleigh

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

Published by Theo. Presser CO., Philadelphia

Way Down On Tampa Bay, A. Seymour Brown, Egbert Van Alstyne, Jerome H. Remick & Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a women looking over a bay and town at night while a full moon is out. Ships are sailing in the bay.

First line of song: Twilight is falling, I'm so lonesome and blue

First line of chorus: On Tampa Bay the moon beams play

Moderato

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Love Me like the Ivy loves the Old Oak Tree" and "I'll Do It All Over Again"

Lyric by A. Seymour Brown

Music by Egbert Van Alstyne

1 score, (6p), 35x27 cm

Published by Jerome H. Remick & CO, New York

Sweet Little Woman O' Mine, Frank Stanton, Floy Little Bartlett, The Arthur P. Schmidt Co.

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: No cover art

First line of song: She ain't any bit of an Angel This sweet little woman o' mine

First line of chorus: This sweet little woman o' mine

Words by Frank Stanton

To be sung very tenderly

Soprano or Tenor

Composed by Floy Little Bartlett.

From "Comes One with a Song" by Frank L. Stanton.

1 score, (6p.), 29x22 cm

Published by The Arthur P. Schmidt Co., New York

I Love The Ladies, Grant Clarke, Jean Schwartz, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of four women standing in formal dresses and one man in a tuxedo down on one knee looking up towards the women with one arm outstretched.

First line of song: Young Johnny Dunn was twenty one, he liked to dance in each cafe.

First line of chorus: I love the ladies, I love the ladies, I love to be among the girls

Includes sheet music sample from the song "When The Angelus is Ringing"

Words by Grant Clarke

Music by Jean Schwartz

Moderato

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Waterson, Berlin & Synder Co, New …

Diane Of The Green Van, J. Will Callahan, F. Henri Klickmann, Frank K. Root & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman sitting on the back steps of a wagon with her legs crossed at the ankles and her hands clasped.

First line of song: Now the silvry moon is beaming as I watch beside the trail

First line of chorus: Slumber on, my wildwood flower, sweetly sleep and dream of love

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Lyric by J. Will Callahan

Music by F. Henri Klickmann

Dedicated to Miss Leona Dalrymple

Song adapted from the $10,000 Price Novel

1 score, (6p.), 34x26 cm

Published by Frank K. Root & Co, New York

California And You, Edgar Leslie, Harry Puck, Kalmar & Puck Music Co. Inc

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A couple standing together outside in a garden with trees around them.

First line of song: Oh! you old Pacific coast, Oh! you land I love the most,

First line of chorus: Don't you remember California in September?

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Words by Edgar Leslie

Music by Harry Puck

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Let by-gones by by-gones.

Sung by Billy Shirley

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Kalmar & Puck Music Co. Inc, New York

Down In Waterloo, Alfred Bryan, Albert Gumble, Jack Wells, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A picture of a woman kissing her soldier good bye while there are other soldiers in the background.

First line of song: I went abroad last May, off for a holiday, I went to England then over to France

First line of chorus: I went down from Brussels town to Waterloo

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Include sheet music samples form the songs "I Wonder Where My Lovin' Man Has Gone" and "When It's Night Time Down In Burgundy"

Popular Edition

Sung by Al Jolson at the New Winter Garden Show "Dancing Around"

Words by Alfred Bryan

Music by Albert Gumble and …

There's A Long, Long Trail, Stoddard King, Zo Elliot, M. Witmark & Sons

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Includes Marching Chorus: Tempo - In Martial Time (But not fast)

First line of song: Nights are growing very lonely, days are very long;

No Cover Art

First line of chorus: There's a long, long trail a winding in to the land of my dreams.

Moderato

Moderato, with expression

Chorus: Evenly with much expression

Includes sheet music samples from the songs "Teach Me To Pray", "I Come To Thee", "It Was For Me", "Can't Yo Heah Me Callin', Caroline", "Honey, If Yo' Only Knew" and "Freedom For All Forever"

Sung by Mr John McCormack

Written by Stoddard King

Composed by …

This Is The Life, Irving Berlin, Waterson, Berlin & Snyder Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A girl sitting on a chair looking forward.

First line of song: Farmer Brown came to town, Started to take in the sight:

First line of chorus: I love the cows and chickens, but this is the life, this is the life!

All'o Mod'to

Successfully introduced by Belle Baker

1 score, (6p.), 35x27 cm

Published by Waterson , Berlin & Snyder Co., New York

Wrap Me In A Bundle And Take Me Home With You, Gus Kahn, Egbert Van Alstyne, Jerome H. Remick & Co

Popular Sheet Music of the 1900s-Archive

Front cover: A woman coming out of a hat box with roses and rope in the front.

First line of song:Mary Brown sold flowers and candy,

First line of chorus: Wrap me in a bundle, dear, and take me home with you,

Words by Gus Kahn

Music by Egbert Van Alstyne

1 score, (6p.), 34x27 cm

Published by Jerome H. Remick & Co., New York