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Descriptive Summary
PURL:
http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00409/
Creator:
University of Mississippi (collector)
Title:
Sheet Music (Miscellaneous) Collection.
Inclusive Dates:
1846-1974
Materials in:
English
Abstract:
Collection contain sheet music related mostly to Mississippi. Items were created 1846-1974.
Quantity:
1 box.
Number:
MUM00409
Location:
G-12.
Repository :
The University of Mississippi
J.D. Williams Library
Department of Archives and Special Collections
P.O. Box 1848, University, MS 38677-1848, USA
Phone: 662.915.7408
Fax: 662.915.5734
E-Mail: archive@olemiss.edu
URL: https://www.olemiss.edu/depts/general_library/archives/
Cite as:
Sheet Music (Miscellaneous) Collection (MUM00409). The Department of Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams Library, The University of Mississippi.

Scope and Contents Note
Collection contain sheet music related mostly to Mississippi. Items were created 1846-1974.

Restrictions
Access Restrictions
Open.
Use Restriction
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be “used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship or research.” If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of “fair use”, that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Container List

Title: ’63 is the Jubilee

Item #:

Librettist: J.L. Greene

Composer: D.A. French

Publisher: Root & Cady

Publisher city/state: Chicago, IL

Date: 1863

Cover:

Title: Alabama Lullaby

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist: Cal De Voll

Composer: Cal De Voll

Publisher: Leo. Feist, Inc.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1919

Cover: top reads “A Unique Dreamy Southern Song”

Title: Away Out On The Mountain

Item #: M 1630.18 .H28 .A9 1928

Librettist: Kely Harrell

Composer: Kely Harrell

Publisher: United Publishing Company

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1928

Cover: Jimmie Rodgers

Title: The Band Played “Nearer My God to Thee” As the Ship Went Down

Item #:

Librettist: Mark Beam

Composer: Harold Jones

Publisher: Joe Morris Music Company

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1912

Cover:

Title: Birmingham Jail

Item #: Not catalogued

Arranged by: Nick Manoloff

Librettist:

Composer:

Publisher: Calumet Music Company

Publisher city/state: Chicago, IL

Date: 1935

Cover: Dick Teela and Gwyneth Neil

Title: Blue Beat Boogie

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist:

Composer: Arthur Smith

Publisher: Shapiro, Bernstein, & Company, Inc.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1947

Cover: Arthur Smith

Title: Blueberry Hill

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist: Al Lewis, Larry Stock, and Vincent Rose

Composer: Al Lewis, Larry Stock, and Vincent Rose

Publisher: Chappell & Co. Inc.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: No date

Cover: woman and man w/ crescent moon

Title: Calhoun Polka

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist:

Composer: Wm. G. Dietrich

Publisher: William H. Shuster

Publisher city/state: Philadelphia, PA

Date: 1857

Cover

Title: Casey Jones (The Brave Engineer)

Item #: M 1622 .N4 C3

Librettist: T. Lawrence Seibert

Composer: Eddie Newton

Publisher: Southern California Music Co.

Publisher city/state: Los Angeles, CA

Date: 1909

Cover:

Title: Casey Jones (The Brave Engineer)

Item #: M 1622 .N4 C3 1937

Librettist: T. Lawrence Seibert

Composer: Eddie Newton

Publisher: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co., Inc.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1909/1936/1937

Cover: Souvenir Edition, cover of 1st edition, 1909

Title: Dixie

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist:

Composer: Frederic Lorin

Publisher: McKinley Music Company

Publisher city/state: Chicago, IL and New York, NY

Date: 1904

Cover:

Title: Dixie’s Land

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist:

Composer: Ch. Grobe

Publisher: Firth, Pond & Co.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1860

Cover:

Title: General Quitman’s Grand March

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist:

Composer: Edward O. Eaton

Publisher: Beck & Lawton

Publisher city/state: Philadelphia, PA

Date:1858

Cover: portrait of General John A. Quitman of Mississippi

Title: General Scott’s Grand Entree Quick Step

Accession #: 2006-7

Librettist

Composer: H.B. Underhill

Publisher: Firth, Pond & Co.

Publisher city/state: New York

Date: 1847

Cover

Title: General Taylor’s Grand March

Accession #: 2006-7

Librettist:

Composer: A. Kurs

Publisher: Firth Pond & Co.

Publisher city/state: New York

Date: 1846

Cover

Title: Go, Mis-sis-sip-pi

Item #: M 1658 .M7 D3 1962

Librettist: Houston Davis

Composer: Houston Davis

Publisher: Jackson, MS Board of Realtors

Publisher city/state: Jackson, MS

Date: 1962

Cover:

Title: Heavyweights for Three Tubas

Item #: M 97 .S84 H4

Librettist:

Composer: Frank G. Stewart

Publisher: Seesaw Music Corporation

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1974

Cover:

Title: He’s A Rag Picker

Item #:

Librettist: Irving Berlin

Composer: Irving Berlin

Publisher: Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1914

Cover: illustrated by Joan Frew

Title: Hound Dog

Item #: M 1630.2 .L45 .H6 1956

Librettist: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Composer: Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller

Publisher: Elvis Presley Music, Inc. and Lion Publishing Company, Inc.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1956

Cover

Title: How Little We Know (From Warner Bros. Picture “To Have and Have Not”

Item #: M 1630.2 .C37 T6 1944

Librettist: Johnny Mercer

Composer: Hoagy Carmichael

Publisher: M. Witmark & Sons

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1944

Cover: Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall

Title: I Can’t Forget

Item #: Not Catalogued

Librettist: Carl Wells

Composer: Carl Wells

Arranged by: Clarke Tate

Publisher: The Tate-International Co.

Publisher city/state: Memphis, TN

Date:1931

Cover: photo of Carl Wells?

Title: If You Please (From Paramount Picture “Dixie”)

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist: Johnny Burke

Composer: Jimmy Van Heusen

Publisher: Famous Music Corporation

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1943

Cover: Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour

Title: I’m Going Back to Mississippi

Item # M 1658 .M6 .R87 1918

Librettist: Jack H. Russell

Composer: Jack H. Russell

Publisher: S.K. Turek

Publisher city/state: Chicago, IL

Date: 1918

Cover

Title: I Miss That Mississippi Miss That Misses Me

Item #:

Librettist: Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis

Composer: Pete Wendling

Publisher: Waterson-Berlin & Snyder Co.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1918

Cover:

Title: I Want To Be In Dixie

Item #:

Librettist: Berlin & Snyder

Composer: Berlin & Snyder

Publisher: Ted Snyder Co./Waterson Berlin & Snyder Co.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1912

Cover: picture of W.E. Browning

Title: I Wish I Was In Dixie

Item #:

Librettist:

Composer: Ch. Grobe

Publisher: Eclipse Publishing Co.

Publisher city/state: Philadelphia, PA

Date:

Cover:

Title: I Wish I Was In Dixie’s Land

Item #:

Librettist:

Composer: Dan. D. Emmett

Arranged by: W.L. Hobbs

Publisher: Firth, Pond & Co.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date:1860

Cover:

Title: Jordan Is A Hard Road To Travel

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist:

Composer: Old Dan Emmet

Publisher: Oliver Ditson

Publisher city/state: Boston, MA

Date: 1853

Cover:

Title: Lancers Quick Step

Item #:

Librettist:

Composer: F.L. Raymond

Publisher: Keith’s Music Publishing House

Publisher city/state: Boston, MA

Date:

Cover:

Title: Little Eva: Uncle Tom’s Guardian Angel

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist: John G. Whittier

Composer: Manuel Emilio

Publisher: John P. Sewett & Company

Publisher city/state: Cleveland, OH

Date: 1852

Cover: Little Eva and Uncle Tom in the Arbor

Title: Lost, or Saved?

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist: J.C. Macy

Composer: J.C. Macy

Publisher: Whittemore & Stephens

Publisher city/state:

Date: 1873

Cover:

Title: Lucilla, The Maid of Shiloh!

Item #: M 1638 .B4 .L8 1864

Librettist: C.D. Benson

Composer: C.D. Benson

Publisher: C.D. Benson

Publisher city/state: Nashville, TN

Date: 1864

Cover

Title: Magnolia (Souvenir de Macon, Deux Valses par Estelle De Lisle)

Item #: M 32 .D4 M3

Librettist

Composer: Estelle De Lisle

Publisher: Beck & Lawton

Publisher city/state: Philadelphia, PA

Date: 1859

Cover: antebellum plantation home

Title: Mary Ann McCue

Item #:

Librettist: Jay Mack

Composer: Jay Mack

Publisher: Chas. K. Harris

Publisher city/state: Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Date: 1898

Cover: bottom: “Sung with Great Success by Lizzie B. Raymond”

Title: Metamorph (for Bassoon and Piano)

Item #: M 254 .S84 M4

Librettist:

Composer: Frank G. Stewart

Publisher: Seesaw Music Corporation

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1974

Cover:

Title: M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist: Bert Hanlon and Benny Ryan

Composer: Harry Tierney

Publisher: William Jerome Publishing Corporation

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1916

Cover: Top reads “Frances White’s Spelling Song”

Title: Mississippi

Item #: M 1658 .M7 A5

Librettist: Mrs. (Eron O.) Dunbar Rowland

Composer: Walter H. Aiken

Publisher:

Publisher city/state:

Date:

Cover:

Title: The Mississippi Flood Song

Item #: M 1630.2 .W4 .M5

Librettist: Jed Hopkins

Composer: Sarah A. Westcott

Publisher: Ager. Yellen & Bornstein Inc.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1927

Cover

Title: A Mississippi Folic

Item #: M 31 S7 M5

Librettist:

Composer: Eugene A. Stein

Publisher: Stein & Moll

Publisher city/state: Peoria, IL

Date: 1899

Cover:

Title: Mississippi Legionnaires

Item #: M 1676 A5 L49 1933

Librettist: Frances Eagle Levine

Composer: Frances Eagle Levine

Publisher: Newton County Post No. 89 The American Legion

Publisher city/state: Newton, MS

Date: 1933

Cover: WWI soldier

Title: Mississippi That Grand Old State of Mine

Item #: M 1621 .C66 M5 c.3

Librettist: R. Roy Coats

Composer: R. Roy Coats

Publisher: R. Roy Coats

Publisher city/state: University, MS

Date: 1930

Cover: MS Governor Dennis Murphree

Title: Mosquito

Item #: PS 3545 .E537 .M68 1926

Librettist: Flo Field Hampton

Composer: Flo Field Hampton

Publisher: Flo Field Hampton Publishing Co.

Publisher city/state: Crystal Springs, MS

Date: 1926

Cover: illustrated by Eudora Welty

Title: My Husband Casey Jones

Item #: M 1659.5 .J65 J6 1928

Librettist: Mrs. Casey Jones in collaboration w/ Lysle Tomerlin

Composer: Mrs. Casey Jones in collaboration w/ Lysle Tomerlin

Publisher: Laycook Music & Printing Co.

Publisher city/state: Jackson, TN

Date: 1928

Cover: Mrs. Casey Jones and Lysle Tomerlin, top reads “The Song Hit of a Century”

Title: My Southern Rose

Item #:

Librettist: Earl Taylor

Composer: Earl Taylor

Publisher: Harry Von Tilzer Music Publishing Co.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1909

Cover:

Title: Now We Take This Feeble Body

Item #: M 1671 D4 N6 1943

Librettist: R. Nathaniel Dett

Composer: R. Nathaniel Dett

Publisher: Mills Music, Inc.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date:1943

Cover:

Title: Old Black Joe

Item #:

Librettist:

Composer: Charles Gimbel, Jr.

Publisher: Wm. A. Pond & Co.

Publisher city/state: Chicago, IL

Date: 1877

Cover:

Title: Old Black Joe

Item #:

Librettist:

Composer: Fred Lewis

Publisher: McKinley Music Co.

Publisher city/state: Chicago, IL and New York, NY

Date:1903

Cover:

Title: “Ole Miss”

Item #: M 1959 M7 U5

Librettist: Aileen H. Tye

Composer: Aileen H. Tye

Publisher: Gamble Hinged Music Co.

Publisher city/state: Chicago, IL

Date: 1931

Cover:

Title: Old Folks At Home (Swanee River.) Variations

Item #:

Arranged by J. Albert Snow

Librettist:

Composer:

Publisher: P.R. McCargo

Publisher city/state: Boston, MA

Date: 1889

Cover:

Title: Our Flag and Its Origin

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist: Harry Macarthy

Composer: Harry Macarthy

Publisher: A.E. Blackmar & Bro.

Publisher city/state: New Orleans, LA

Date: 1862

Cover:

Title: Protect The Freedman

Item #: M 1640 .W4 1866

Librettist: Luke Collin

Composer: J.P. Webster

Publisher: Oliver Ditson & Co.

Publisher city/state: Boston, MA

Date: 1866

Cover

Title: Roll On, Mississippi, Roll On

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist: Eugene West, James McCaffrey, and Dave Ringle

Composer: Eugene West, James McCaffrey, and Dave Ringle

Publisher: Shapiro, Bernstein & Co. Music Publishers

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1931

Cover: Wayne King

Title: September Rains Came

Item #: M 1630.2 S43 S46 1949

Librettist: Charles Nelson

Composer: David Slate

Publisher: D.S. Goforth

Publisher city/state: Oxford, MS

Date: 1949

Cover:

Title: Silver Threads Among the Gold . Reverie

Item #: See Folder of fragment scores in box

Librettist:

Composer: H.P. Danks

Arranged by: P.F. del Campiglin

Publisher: Hamilton S. Gordon

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1911

Cover:

Title: Southern Cross Drill

Item #:

Librettist:

Composer: T.J. Firth

Publisher: T.J. Firth

Publisher city/state:

Date: 1907

Cover: Capt. W.L. McLean, The only Survivor of the Southern Cross Drill, composed by Lieut. Dugan, of South Carolina, while a Prisoner of War in the U.S. Military Prison, Johnson’s Island, Lake Erie, Ontario, 1864. Top: Dedicated to “Southern Cross Drill Club” Memphis, TN.

Title: The Southern Marseillaise

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist:

Composer: A. E. Blackmar

Publisher: Blackmar & Bro

Publisher city/state: Augusta, GA

Date: 1861

Cover

Title: The Southern Marseillaise

Item #:

Librettist:

Composer: A.E. Blackmar

Publisher: A.E. Blackmar & Bro.

Publisher city/state: New Orleans, LA

Date: 1861

Cover:

Title: Summerland

Item #: M 25 .S86 .S8

Librettist:

Composer: William Grant Still

Publisher: J. Fischer & Bro.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1936

Cover: Field w/ trees.

Title: Sweet Mississippi

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist:

Composer: J.H. Kavanagh

Publisher: Sep. Winner

Publisher city/state: Philadelphia, PA

Date: 1853

Cover:

Title: There Is’nt Any North and South

Item #: not catalogued/G-14

Librettist: L.Z. Phillips

Composer: L.Z. Phillips

Publisher: Southern Music Co. (Copyright by Bluff City Engraving Co., Memphis, TN, 1909)

Publisher city/state: Memphis, TN

Date: 1909

Cover: Meeting of Generals Clement A. Evans and Fred D. Grant at the Confederate Reunion, Memphis, Tenn., June 10, 1909. Top reads “The North and South Clasp Hands.”

Title: Uncle Tom’s Lament for Eva

Item #:

Librettist: I. B. Woodbury

Composer: I. B. Woodbury

Publisher: Oliver Ditson

Publisher city/state: Boston, MA

Date: 1852

Cover:

Title: Victory Tide

Item #: M 1533 S86 V5 1942

Librettist: Albert Stillman

Composer: William Grant Still

Publisher: J. Fischer & Bro.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date:1942

Cover:

Title: Walk Right In

Item #: Not Catalogued

Librettist: Gus Cannon and H. Woods

Composer: Gus Cannon and H. Woods

Publisher: Peer International Corporation

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1930/1963

Cover:

Title: Waltzing in the Moonlight on Old Biloxi Bay

Item #: M 1658 .B54 .D5 1926

Librettist: Thomas F. Dillabough

Composer: Thomas F. Dillabough

Publisher: Thomas F. Dillabough

Publisher city/state: Gulfport, MS

Date: 1926

Cover

Title: What Dixie Means To Me

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist: George B. McConnell and Billy Smythe

Composer: George B. McConnell and Billy Smythe

Publisher: Billy Smythe Music Co.

Publisher city/state: Louisville, KY

Date: 1917

Cover

Title: When I Dream of Old Erin

Item #:

Librettist: Marvin Lee

Composer: Leo Friedman

Publisher: Frank Clark Music Company

Publisher city/state: Chicago, IL

Date:1912

Cover:

Title: The Yellow Rose of Texas

Item #: Not catalogued

Arranged by: Nick Manoloff

Librettist:

Composer:

Publisher: Calumet Music Co.

Publisher city/state: Chicago, IL

Date: 1936

Cover: Bonnie Blue Eyes and Randall Atcher

Title: You Are My Sunshine

Item #: Not catalogued

Librettist: Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell

Composer: Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell

Publisher: Southern Music Publishing Company, Inc.

Publisher city/state: New York, NY

Date: 1940

Cover: Jimmie Davis

Title: You Will Know How I Love You

Item #:

Librettist: Harry Brunswick Lo뢍

Composer: R. Emmet Kennedy

Publisher: The Cable Company

Publisher city/state: New Orleans, LA

Date: 1907

Cover: autographed w/ message from R. Emmet Kennedy

 
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