Sheet Music Collection

TITLE:   Sheet Music Collection

DATE RANGE: 1876-1953

CALL NUMBER:    Y-MS #69

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:  5 linear ft. (7 boxes)

PROVENANCE: Multiple donors; bulk of materials donated by  Dale Ralston on behalf of his mother Zenobia S. Lacy who was a piano teacher. 

COPYRIGHT:  Public Domain.  

RESTRICTIONS: This collection is unrestricted.   

CREDIT LINE: Sheet Music Collection, Y-MS 69, Yuma County Library District

PROCESSED BY: Linda Whitaker, March 2015

HISTORICAL NOTE:    Prior to the 1880s, popular music publishing was a secondary market for music stores that mainly served students and performers of classical music.   By 1900, popular music dominated sales largely due to music publishers and songwriters located in Tin Pan Alley – an area on 28th Street between Sixth Avenue and Broadway in

New York City close to the burgeoning entertainment district.  The first decade of the 20th century produced more popular music than had ever been written before – an estimated 25,000 songs annually according to Wikipedia.  Sheet music was the driving force of American popular music until the advent of the radio and phonograph.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE:  Tin Pan Alley publishers and songwriters are well represented in this collection.  Much of the sheet music artwork is exquisite and is worthy of study in its own right.  Condition of the music sheets and instruction manuals range from excellent to fragile.  Many bear the signature and notations of Zenobia Lacy.  

The sheet music and manuals are arranged in alphabetical order.  

CONTAINER LIST:  

Box Folder Title Dates
1 1  A Beautiful Lady in Blue  1934
  2 A Dreamy Lullaby 1953
  3 A Song of Rest n.d.
  4 Among My Souvenirs 1927
  5  Answer? 1885
  6 Arizona March Song 1915
  7 Asthore 1893
  8 At the End of the Sunset Trail 1924
  9 Bach and Handel Favorite Pieces 1893
  10 Beautiful Pieces for Piano or Cabinet Organ n.d.
  11 Billy 1911
  12 Birds in Dreamland Sleep 1883
  13 Birds of Flame 1917
  14 Bound with a Golden Chain 1900
  15 Bye-Bye, Pretty Baby 1927
  16 Carolina Moon 1911
  17 Centennial Waltz 1876
  18 Characteristic Pieces for the Pianoforte  1 of 2 1907
  19 Characteristic Pieces for the Pianoforte  2 of 2 1907
  20 Chopin 1887
  21 Christmas Anthems 1903
  22 Christmas Anthems 1918
  23 Christmas Carol the Christ-Child 1917
  24 Church, Sunday School and Special Service Music 1918
  25 Comrades 1891
  26 Congo Love Song 1903
  27 Creole Belles 1901
  28 Destiny 1912
  29 Dream Shadows 1889
  30 Fatinitza March  n.d.
  31 Follow the Swallow 1924
  32 Frédéric Chopin Works for the Pianoforte- Twenty Four Preludes Op. 28 1915
  33 From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water 1909
  34 Good Bye, Sweet Day! 1891
  35 Her Wedding Bells Will Ring Today 1891
  36 Husking in the Old Red Barn 1891
  37 I Want to See the Old Home 1873
  38 In a Brahmin Garden 1908
  39 In a Flower Garden – Cantata for Juvenile Voices 1914
  40 It’s Just Because I Love You So 1900
2 1 Johann Sebastian Bach – Original Works and Arrangements for Pianoforte n.d.
  2 Just A-Wearyin’ For You 1901
  3 Just for Fun- the 6th Annual Senior Follies University of Arizona 1925
  4 La Paloma 1924
  5 La Pluie de Perles n.d.
  6 Maggie’s Welcome n.d.
  7 Massa’s in De Cold Ground 1889
  8 Me and My Shadow 1927
  9 Milkmaids and Farmers 1921
  10 Missouri Waltz 1915
              11 Moonlight Musings n.d.
  12 Moonlight on the Colorado 1930
  13 More Fun! – the  7th Annual Senior Follies University of Arizona 1926
  14 Musical World,  May 1875 1875
  14a Musical World,  August 1875 1875
  14b Musical World,  September 1876 1876
  14c Musical World,  November 1876 1876
  14d Musical World,  February 1877 1877
  14e Musical World,  May 1880 1880
  15 Musical World,  August 1892 1892
  16 Musical World,  October 1892 1892
  17 Musical World , January 1893 1893
  18 Musical World,  February 1893 1893
  19 Musical World,  March 1893 1893
  20 Musical World,  April 1893  1 of 2 1893
  21 Musical World,  April 1893  2 of 2 1893
              22 Musical World,  July 1893 1893
  23 Musical World,  September 1893 1893
  24 Musical World,  October 1893 1893
  25 My Dream of You 1895
  26 My Sweetheart Waits for Me 1953
  27 Navajo                                                                         1903
  28 Nearly a Honeymoon                                                   1925
  29 Oh, Promise Me! 1889
  30 Old Drawing Room Favorites for the Piano n.d.
3 1 Opera Gems – The Last Rose of Summer 1902
  2 Orchestra Folio – Containing Twenty of the  

Seasons Most Popular Marches, Waltzes and Dances

1903
3 3 Out Arizona Way 1953
  4 Over There 1918
  5  Parfum Exotique 1922
  6 Paul Revere’s Ride 1905
  7 Pauline 1891
  8 Perry’s Musical Magazine 1889
  9 Piano Compositions 1905
  10 Piano Pieces the Whole World Plays  
  11 Pictorial Sketch 1913
  12 Please Touch My Daddy’s Star Again and Change it Back to Blue 1918
  13 Rhapsodies Hongroises 1906
  14 Romances Françaises 1900
  15 Rose of Monterey 1927
  16 Roses of Picardy 1916
  17 Sailor Boy’s Farewell 1886
  18 Selection of Dances, Rondos, etc. n.d.
  19 Serenade 1912
  20 Shadows of the Water 1930
  21 She was Bred in Old Kentucky 1898
  22 Side by Side 1927
  23 Sing Me a Baby Song 1927
  24 Six Favorite Polkas n.d.
  25 Someday, Somewhere, Somehow n.d.
  26 Songs by Eugene Cowles 1894
  27 Songs with Pianoforte Accompaniment 1894
  28 Studies from Beethoven n.d.
  29 Sunny Side Up 1929
  30 Susan Jane n.d.
  31 Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle 1935
  32 That is Love 1890
  33 That Wonderful Mother of Mine 1918
  34 The Beautiful Easter Morn 1913
  35 The Bird as Prophet 1915
  36 The Broadway Melody 1929
  37 The Coon’s Excursion  1886
  38 The Desert Song 1926
  39 The Little Brown Jug n.d.
  40 The Little Old Cabin in the Lane 1871
  41 The New Moon 1925
  42 The Night is Young 1925
  43 The Old Cloister Clock n.d.
  44 The Picture that is Turned Toward the Wall 1891
3 45 The Song is Ended 1927
  46 The Sweetest Story Ever Told 1892
  47 The Toys Rebellion 1902
  48 The Yaller Gal that Winked at Me 1895
  49 This Heart of Mine 1943
  50 Together 1928
  51 Try These Over on Your Piano 1897
  52 Two Little Girls in Blue 1893
  53 Violets Song 1900
  54 Wanting You 1928
  55 What are You Going to do to Help the Boys? 1918
  56 What Can I Say after I Say I’m Sorry? 1926
  57 When the Bloom is on the Sage 1930
  58 When You Look in the Heart of a Rose 1918
  59 Where is the Song of Songs for Me 1928
  60 Where the Wild Flowers Grow 1927
  61 You’re a Real Sweetheart 1928
  62 Ziegeuner 1929
4 1 Manuals: Album of Program Pieces 1923
  2 Manuals  Christensen’s Ragtime Instruction Book for Piano   1908
  3 Manuals:  Fifty Selected Studies for the Pianoforte n.d.
  4 Manuals:  Harvest Minstrel Songs 1884
  5 Manuals:  Hunter’s Instructions for the Pianoforte 1882
  6 Manuals:  Jazz Breaks, Tricks, Blues, Endings Circa 1925
  7 Manuals:  J.S. Bach Inventions 1901
  8 Manuals:  Leo Paalz Technical Octave Series 1929
  9 Manuals:  Music Mastery Series – Ten Brilliant Octave Studies 1914
  10 Manuals:  Obligato Songs 1905
  11 Manuals:  National Songs Folio n.d.
5 1 Manuals:  Schirmer’s ABT Practical Singing Tutor 1893
  2 Manuals:  Schirmer’s Collection of Operas 1897
  3 Manuals:  Selected Pianoforte Studies 1888
  3a Manuals:  Shakespearan Songs for Mixed Voices 1915
  4 Manuals:  Songs that Never Grow Old Circa 1913
  5 Manuals:  The Holy City – an Oratorio n.d.
  6 Manuals:  Thematic Excerpts of the Very Best Teaching Pieces for the Pianoforte 1914
  7 Manuals:  Waldteuffel Waltz Album 1896
6 1 Manuals:  Mansfeldt Technic n.d
  2 Manuals:  Piano School for Systematic Instruction n.d.
  3 Manuals:  Practical Method for the Pianoforte 1911
  4 Manuals:  Root’s Conservatory Course of Graded Studies for the Pianoforte 1902
  5 Manuals:  Root’s Pleasant Hours -  Piano  

Instructor – a Correct and Thorough Course in Piano Instruction for Children   1 of 2

 1892
  6 Manuals:  Root’s Pleasant Hours -  Piano  

Instructor – a Correct and Thorough Course in Piano Instruction for Children   2 of 2

 1899
  7 Manuals:  Schirmer’s -  Carl Czerny, The School of Velocity 1893
  8 Manuals:  Schirmer’s-  Berens, Newest School of Velocity 1894
7 1 Manuals:  Schirmer’s  - Henselt, Twelve 1902
    Characteristic Concert Studies for the Piano  
  2 Manuals:  Schirmer’s  - Kohler, Twenty Studies in Scale and Chord Passages 1898
  3 Manuals:  Schirmer’s – Robert Schumann,  

Complete Works for the Pianoforte, Album for the Young

1893
  4 Manuals:  Standard Brilliant Album – 27 Pieces for the Pianoforte 1915
  5 Manuals:  Standard Piano Album 1886
  6 Manuals:  Studies in Phrasing    1 of 2 n.d.
  7 Manuals:   Studies in Phrasing   2 of 2 1889
  8 Manuals:  The Junior Illustrated Piano Method 1911
  9 Manuals:  The University Course of Music Study 1923
  10 Manuals:  Touch and Technic for Artistic Piano Playing n.d.
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