Sheet Music

  • [SHEET MUSIC; FISK JUBILEE SINGERS] Laugh and the world laughs with you : song

    # 34251

    HALL, Fred (words and music); TISDALE, Clarence (performer)

    [SHEET MUSIC; FISK JUBILEE SINGERS] Laugh and the world laughs with you : song

    Cover: “Sung by Clarence Tisdale”. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1908]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 200. Folio (350 x 250 mm), illustrated cover with inset portrait of African-American tenor Clarence Tisdale by Talma Studios and vignette portrait of Fred Hall, original owner’s name ‘Roland Thomas’ and wet stamp of Melbourne music seller Miss …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC; MELBOURNE] Seventy-six negro spirituals and plantation songs.

    # 34302

    Various.

    [SHEET MUSIC; MELBOURNE] Seventy-six negro spirituals and plantation songs.

    Series: The Australian Music Books, no. 43. Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Bendigo : Allan & Co., Ltd., [August, 1929]. Folio (330 x 250 mm), original lithographed pictorial wrappers with a beautiful design of native ferns and palms and a vignette view of Melbourne from the southern end of Princes Bridge (old tape reinforcement along spine), pp …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] In your green hat

    # 34238

    YELLEN, Jack (words); AGER, Milton (1893-1979) (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] In your green hat

    Words by Jack Yellen / Music by Milton Ager. Ukulele arrangement by May Singhi Breen. Cover: Featured with great success by Miss Lila Rayne. Sydney : D. Davis & Co. Ltd., [1926]. Folio (310 x 240 mm), pictorial wrappers with inset portrait of Australian singer Lila Rayne, [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice, piano …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] There's a girl in Berlin

    # 34252

    GODFREY, Fred, D'ALBERT, Fred and MOORE, J. Chas. (words and music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] There’s a girl in Berlin

    Cover: “The latest London pantomime hit” / “Sung by The Two Bells”. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1909]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 310. Folio (350 x 250 mm), illustrated cover with inset portrait of vaudeville performers The Two Bells; [3] pp of music notation; a superb copy. Impresario Harry Rickards first brought the …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC; MELBOURNE] Allan's Australian music books no. 5

    # 34246

    Various.

    [SHEET MUSIC; MELBOURNE] Allan’s Australian music books no. 5

    Cover: No. 5 Popular Songs (Second Series). Melbourne : Allan & Co. Ltd., The Block, Collins Street, [between 1890 and 1899]. Folio (360 x 260 mm), original lithographed pictorial wrappers with a beautiful design of native ferns and palms and a vignette view of Melbourne from the southern end of Princes Bridge (the wrappers are …

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  • Paper on Chinese music

    # 15302

    RICHARD, Mrs. Timothy

    Paper on Chinese music

     / by Mrs. Timothy Richard. Read before the China branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Shanghai, November, 1898. (Illustrated, vocally and instrumentally, by natives and foreigners). Repeated (by request) before the Shanghai Literary and Debating Society January 4th, 1899. Shanghai : Presbyterian Mission Press, 1923. Fourth edition. Octavo, printed wrappers (old tape marks to head …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC]. Robin Hood suite for piano

    # 33303

    LEE, E. Markham; OUTHWAITE, Ida Rentoul (illustrator)

    [SHEET MUSIC]. Robin Hood suite for piano

    Melbourne : Allan & Co., 1941. Imperial Edition No. 489. Quarto, illustrated wrappers by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (corners a little dog-eared, upper wrapper with short tear at top left corner), staple bound, pp. 16, contents clean. Scarce. Not in Muir.

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Jolly darkies : piano duet

    # 33302

    BECHTER, Karl

    [SHEET MUSIC] Jolly darkies : piano duet

    Melbourne : Allan & Co. Pty. Ltd., [1915?]. Publisher’s number ‘B.837’. Folio, illustrated wrappers depicting a scene of African-American plantation workers dancing, clapping, singing and playing the banjo, 5 pp music notation; a good, clean copy. Trove locates only one copy of this piano duet edition (NLA). An earlier piano solo edition was published by …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)

    # 32940

    NORMAN, Karyl [performer and lyricist]; WEBER, Edwin J. [music]; BERRY, Hyatt (lyrics)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Nobody lied (when they said that I cried over you)

    New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ in full drag, pp. 6, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Beside a babbling brook

    # 32936

    NORMAN, Karyl [performer]; DONALDSON, Walter [music]; KAHN, Gus (lyrics)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Beside a babbling brook

    New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1923. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’, pp. 6, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast of the United …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] My creed.

    # 32644

    WALTERS, Howard Arnold (words); STERNE, Laurie Annette (music); QUEENSLAND COUNTRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION

    [SHEET MUSIC] My creed.

    / The words by Howard Arnold Walters. The music by Laurie Annette Sterne. Dedicated to Ruth B. Fairfax, State President of the Queensland Country Women’s Association, May 1931. At head of title: “I would be Friend to All – The Foe – The Friendless”. Brisbane : The Read Press Pty. Ltd., Ann St., Valley [for …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] I'm through (shedding tears over you)

    # 32603

    NORMAN, Karyl [performer] WEBER, Edwin J. [music]

    [SHEET MUSIC] I’m through (shedding tears over you)

    New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ dressed in drag, pp. 6, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] For the term of his natural life.

    # 32641

    HATES, Henry T. (words and music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] For the term of his natural life.

    Cover: Specially written & featured in association with the presentation of the Union Master world production “For the Term of His Natural Life”. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [1927]. Folio (320 x 240 mm), disbound, illustrated wrappers (very good), front with original music seller’s stamp (King & King, Brisbane) and original owner’s name (E. Ward); …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Anne Dreyer's Aboriginal songs for you and me.

    # 32555

    DREYER, Anne (1905-2001) (words); WOOD, Robin (music); HOWDEN, Marjorie (1911-1988) (illustrator)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Anne Dreyer’s Aboriginal songs for you and me.

    Melbourne : Davis & Co., 1954. Large quarto (310 x 240 mm), pictorial wrappers with a colourful front cover design by Marjorie Howden (a tiny amount of pale foxing), staple bound; pp 21, with music notation for 10 songs (arrangements for voice and piano), each song accompanied by a full-page b/w line-drawn illustration by Howden; …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Don't leave me mammy

    # 32602

    NORMAN, Karyl [performer] SANTLY, Henry W. [composer] CONRAD, Con [composer] DAVIS, Benny [lyricist] De SYLVA, B. G. (Buddy Gard) [lyricist]

    [SHEET MUSIC] Don’t leave me mammy

    New York : Jerome H. Remick & Co., 1922. Sheet music, cover illustration of Karyl Norman (aka George Francis Peduzzi) ‘The Creole Fashion Plate’ dressed in drag, pp. 6, a fine copy. ‘Karyl Norman’ (1897 – 1947) was born in Baltimore, leaving home at the age of 16 and performing vaudeville on the west coast …

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  • [SHEET MUSIC] Ukulele dream girl.

    # 32642

    LOW, Reg (words & music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Ukulele dream girl.

    Words & music by Reg. Low. Arrangement for ‘banjulele’ banjo and ukulele by Kel Keech. Cover: A new haunting Hawaiian fox-trot song. Sung by Iza Crossley and Jock Thompson of Pat Hanna’s “Diggers” Costume Comedy Co. / Featured by Queenie & David Kaili with Kaai’s Hawaiian Troubadors / Delightfully featured by Jack Blake on Columbia …

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