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SAM DeVINCENT COLLECTION OF ILLUSTRATED AMERICAN SHEET MUSIC,
ca. 1790 - 1987
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A-K |
Cupid Titles, 1854-1961; n.d. |
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A-B |
Songs, 1854-1961; n.d. |
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A |
A - M Includes: “Cupid Does Not Marry,” and “Cupid’s I.O.U.” from BROWN OF HARVARD. (21 items) |
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B |
S - Y Includes: “Stupid Cupid,” “When Cupid Calls” from SYBIL, and “When Cupid Leads the Band.” (14 items) |
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C-E |
Instrumental Compositions, 1854-1917
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C |
C Includes: “Cupid in Dreamland” and “Cupid’s Pranks.” (25 items) |
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D |
I - S Includes: “Sly Cupid” and “Spying Cupid.” (10 items) |
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Multiple Editions, 1901, “Cupid’s Garden.” (7 items) |
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F-K |
Cupid on the Cover, 1854-1953; n.d. |
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F-H |
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F |
A - I Includes: “Don’t Be Too Sure” and “I’ll Anchor My Ship in Your Harbor of Love.” (26 items) |
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G |
L - S Includes: “Love Is an Awful Thing” and “Other Lips.” (21 items) |
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H |
T - Y Includes: “There Is Life in the Old Boy Yet” from PAGE MR. CUPID and “The World Is Hungry for a Little Bit of Love.” (27 items) |
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I-K |
Instrumental Compositions, 1854-1913; n.d. |
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I |
A - J Includes: “Birth of Love Waltzes” and “Jardin d’Amour.” (20 items) |
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L Includes: “Love-Land” and “”Love’s Messenger Polka.” (23 items) |
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K |
M - W Includes: “Moon Kisses” and “Whisper Schottisch.” (9 items) |
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L |
Professional/Artist Copies, 1910-1947 Includes: “Cupid’s Stupid, Isn’t He?” (3 items) |
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M-N |
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M |
Songs and Instrumentals, 1870-1951 Includes: “Darling” (three titles), “”My Darling, My Darling” from WHERE’S CHARLEY, and “You Call Everybody Darling.” (21 items) |
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N |
Professional/Artist Copies, 1936-1954 Includes: “Dearest Darling” and “Don’t You Dare Call Me Darling.” (12 items) |
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O-Y |
Dream/Dreamland Titles, 1843-1982; n.d. |
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O |
A - “Dreamer…” Includes: “At the Gate of the Palace of Dreams” and “City of Dreams” from OH, MY DEAR! (28 items) |
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“Dreaming…” - G Includes: “Dreams of Love” and “Face to Face with the Girl of My Dreams.” (29 items) |
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H - “I’m…” Includes: “I Can’t Afford to Dream Again” and “I’m a Dream That’s Chasing Bubbles.” (32 items) |
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“In…” - L Includes: “Just Dreaming of You” and “Let’s Dream This One Out.” (22 items) |
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S |
M - O Includes: “Meet Me Tonight in Dreamland,” “My Dream Girl” (two titles) and “Only a Dream” (three titles). (30 items) |
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T |
P - T Includes: “Trail of Dreams” and “Twilight Dreams.” (20 items) |
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U |
V - Y Includes: “The Vale of Dreams” and “When I Grow too Old to Dream.” (35 items) |
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V |
Multiple Editions, 1895-1940 Contains: “Could the Dreams of a Dreamer Come True,” “A Dream,” “Dreaming,” and “Some Days When Dreams Come True.” (35 items) |
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X-Y |
Professional/Artist Copies, 1911-1982; n.d. |
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X |
A - K Includes: “Deep in a Dream,” with drums and violin arrangement and “Good-Night, Sweet Dreams, Good-Night,” with male quartette arrangement. (51 items) |
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Y |
L - Y Includes: “I Hear a Dream” from GULLIVER’S TRAVELS and “Wake Up and Dream.” (43 items) |
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Z |
Flirting Songs, 1850-1865; n.d. Includes: “Don’t Call me a Flirt.” (3 items) |
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AA |
Includes: “I Still Get Jealous” from HIGH BUTTON SHOES and “I’m Not Jealous” from GOOD MORNING JUDGE! (22 items) |
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BB-I I |
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BB-FF |
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BB |
Includes: “Bread, Cheese and Kisses,” “Down at the Kissing Gate,” and “His Kisses Made a Mrs. Out of Me.” (14 items) |
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CC |
Includes: “I Love the Girl Who Kisses” and “I Saw Esau Kissing Kate.” (17 items) |
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DD |
Includes: "Kiss All the Girls for me," “Kiss Me, Dear,” “Kiss Me Goodnight” (two titles), and “Kiss Me Sweet.” (34 items) |
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EE |
Includes: “Kissing on the Sly,” “The Mysterious Kiss,” and “One Stolen Kiss.” (25 items) |
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Includes: “Take Your Finger Out of Your Mouth, I Want a Kiss from You.” (23 items) |
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GG-HH |
Instrumental Compositions, 1858-1934; n.d.
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GG |
General Titles, 1858-1919; n.d. Includes: “Il Bacio” (“The Kiss”), four titles not by Arditi. (12 items) |
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HH |
Contains: “Il Bacio” (“The Kiss”), by Luigi Arditi. (8 items) |
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I I |
Professional/Artist Copies, 1889-1952; n.d. Includes: “Huggable, Kissable You,” “Ready, Aim, Kiss,” and “They Kissed, I Saw Them Do It.” (59 items) |
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JJ |
Loveland Titles, Songs, 1902-1934 Includes: “I’d Love to Live in Loveland with a Girl Like You” and “When It’s Orange Blossom Time in Loveland.” (16 items)
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KK-OO |
Sweetheart/Sweetie Titles, 1886-1956; n.d. |
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KK |
A - H Includes: “Don’t Sweetheart Me,” “Goodbye Sweetheart,” and “Hello Sweetheart.” (20 items) |
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I - N Includes: “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” and “My Wife and I Are Sweethearts Yet.” (40 items) |
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MM |
S Includes: “Sweetheart” (five titles, including from MLLE MISCHIEF) and “Sweethearts on Parade.” (42 items) |
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NN |
T - Y Includes: “Treat with My Sweetie,” "Washing Dishes with My Sweetie," and “What Word Is Sweeter Than Sweetheart.” (20 items) |
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OO |
Professional/Artist Copies, 1910-1956; n.d. Includes: “You’re as Sweet at Sixty as You Were at Sweet Sixteen.” (41 items) |
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PP-QQ |
Valentine Titles, 1854-1969; n.d.
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PP |
Songs and Instrumentals, 1854-1969; n.d. Includes: “A Paris Valentine” from THE MAN WHO UNDERSTOOD WOMEN and “Won’t You Be My Valentine.” (19 items)
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Professional/Artist Copies, 1920-1938 (3 items)
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General Love Themes, 1827-1968; n.d. |
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Illustrated, 1836-1884; n.d. Includes: “Alas My Love” from the opera JOUST, “Don’t Borrow Trouble, Love,” and “Tender and True.” (19 items) |
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SS-ZZ |
Not Illustrated, 1827-1891; n.d. |
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SS |
A - C Includes: “Ah! Could I E’er Deceive Thee” and “Come Down to the Lattice.” (24 items) |
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TT |
D - G Includes: “Dearest Maid I Adore Thee” from ROB ROY MACGREGOR and “Faithless Emma.” (17 items) |
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UU |
H - J Includes: “Here’s Health to Thee, Mary,” “I Take Your Hand in Mine, Willie,” and “The Jilting.” (23 items) |
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L Includes: “Lilla Come Down to Me” from THE SIEGE OF BELGRADE and “Love and Gratitude” from THE TRAVELLERS. (20 items) |
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M - O Includes: “Meet Me at the Lane,” “Meet Me in the Lane,” and “Meet Me Josie at the Gate.” (25 items) |
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P - S Includes: “Return O My Love” from THE FLYING DUTCHMAN and “Rustic Lovers.” (11 items) |
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YY |
T Includes: “They Told Me Not to Love Him.” (22 items) |
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V - W Includes: “Why Comes He Not?” “Why Don’t He Come,” and “The World Is Full of Beauty When the Heart Is Full of Love.” (17 items) |
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Multiple Editions, 1889-1948, “Oh Promise Me.” (21 items) |
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BBB-GGG |
Later Printings, 1899-1968; n.d. |
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BBB-FFF |
Songs, 1902-1968 |
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BBB |
A - J Includes: “I’ve Got a Tickling Sensation Round My Heart for You That Can’t Be Scratched.” (32 items) |
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CCC |
L - T Includes: “My Heart’s Beating Overtime for You” and “There’s a Room to Rent in My Heart for You.” (27 items) |
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W - Y Includes: “When Billy Meets the Betty of His Heart” and “You’re More Than the World to Me.” (11 items) |
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EEE-GGG |
Multiple Editions, 1902-1948; n.d. |
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Contains: “Because” and “Do You Ever Think of Me.” (23 items) |
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FFF |
Contains: “Whispering.” (12 items) |
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GGG |
Instrumental Compositions, 1899-1930; n.d. Includes: “Melody of Love” and “Romeo and Juliet” (Tschaikowsky). (7 items) |
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HHH-JJJ |
Bachelor/Spinster, 1847-1952; n.d. |
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HHH-I I I |
Songs, 1849-1952; n.d. |
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HHH |
A - I Includes: “Bachelor Club Disbanded,” “Fussy Old Maids from Lynn,” and “It’s a Great Life if You Don’t Weaken.” (23 items) |
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I I I |
J - W Includes: two versions of “No One to Love,” “Some Are Bachelors and Some Are Not,” and “They’re Hunting a Husband for Helen.” (14 items) |
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Instrumental Compositions, 1847-1913; n.d. Includes: “Bachelor Buttons,” “Bachelor’s Button,” and “The Old Maid’s Waltz.” (14 items) |
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Courting, Songs and Instrumentals, 1829-1938; n.d. Includes: “Courting in Connecticut,” “When Paw Was Courtin’ Maw,” and “While We Sit by the Old Kitchen Door.” (19 items) |
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Wedding Songs, 1865-1976; n.d. |
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LLL |
A - H Includes: “Aunt Priscilla’s Wedding Day,” “Good-Bye Everybody” from A MODERN EVE, and “The Greatest Battle Song of All.” (29 items) |
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MMM |
I - L Includes: “I Don’t Want to Marry You” and “The Little Church Around the Corner.” (29 items) |
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NNN |
M - N Includes: “Malinda’s Wedding Day,” “Melinda’s Wedding Day,” and “Name the Happy Day.” (25 items) |
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O - T Includes: “O Perfect Love” (two titles), "Our Wedding Day," “Somebody Bad Stole de Wedding Bell,” and “Till Death Do Us Part.” (34 items) |
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“Waiting…” – “Wedding…” Includes: “”Walter! Walter! Lead Me to the Altar,” “We Really Ought to Be Married” from PIFF! PAFF! POUF!, and “Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine).” (42 items) |
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“We’ve…” - Y Includes: “We’ve Only Just Begun” and “You Better Start Working on Your Wedding Gown.” (15 items) |
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RRR |
Multiple Editions,, 1917; n.d. Contains: “For Me and My Gal” and “In the Land of Wedding Bells.” (10 items) |
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SSS-WWW |
Instrumental Compositions, 1853-1929; n.d. |
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SSS |
Includes: “Come Haste to the Wedding” and “Wedding March” (three titles in addition to Multiple Editions by Wagner and Mendelssohn). (22 items) |
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Multiple Editions, n.d., “Swedish Wedding March.” (5 items) |
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UUU |
Multiple Editions, 1883-1937, “Wedding March” from LOHENGRIN, by Richard Wagner. (26 items) |
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VVV-WWW |
Multiple Editions, 1860-1935; n.d., “Wedding March” by Felix von Mendelssohn. |
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VVV |
Contains 24 items. |
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WWW |
Contains 8 items. |
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XXX |
Contains: three wedding compositions and two editions of The Etude with wedding themes. (5 items) |
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YYY-ZZZ |
Wedding Rings, 1894-1968; n.d. |
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YYY |
Songs and Instrumentals, 1894-1968; n.d. Includes: “Band of Gold” and “With this Ring” (two titles). (21 items) |
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ZZZ |
Multiple editions, 1917, “When the Parson Hands the Wedding Band from Me to Mandy Lee.” (7 items) |
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Bride/Bridegroom, 1836-1954; n.d. |
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AAAA |
Songs, 1836-1954; n.d. Includes: “The Bride” (two titles), “Everybody Kiss the Bride,” and “The Unwilling Bride.” (20 items) |
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BBBB |
Instrumental Compositions, 1854-1915; n.d. Includes: “Bridal Veil Waltzes” (two titles) and Grieg’s “Norwegian Bridal Procession.” (21 items) |
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Songs, 1895-1949 Includes: “Aba Daba Honeymoon,” “Dancing Honeymoon” (two titles), and “Honeymoon Waltz” (two titles). (35 items) |
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Instrumental Compositions, 1852-1918 Includes: “The Honeymoon” by George Rosey. (15 items) |
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Married Life, 1842-1926; n.d. Includes: “I Love My Husband, But Oh, You Henry!” “If Wives Were Put on Sale,” and “I’ll Be No Submissive Wife.” (26 items) |
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Anniversary Songs and Instrumentals, 1871-1948; n.d. Contains: “The Anniversary Waltz” and “Our Anniversary Waltz;” and seven titles re 50th Golden Anniversary titles and four Silver Anniversary Titles. (12 items) |
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GGGG |
Includes: “At the Weeping Widows Ball” and “Fascinating Widows.” (10 items) |
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HHHH |
Alimony/Divorce Songs, 1901-1959 Includes: “Alimony Alice” and “Married by the Bible, Divorced by the Law.” (8 items) |
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I I I I |
Professional/Artist Copies for Folders EEE-HHHH, 1910-1974. (75 items) |
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