Sheet Music collection
Object Details
- Contents
- A toast to W.C. Handy; on the Occasionof his 79th Birthday dinner Waldorf Astoria hotel, N.Y.C. -- The Blues I've got poet -- Harlem Lullaby -- Ole Manny's Lullaby Songs; with an instrumental medley -- He's up against the real thing now -- Everytime I pick a sweetie; with Ukulele arrangement -- You're in the right Church but the wrong pew; The greatest of williams and Walkers great big hits -- Any old place in Yankee land is good enough for me; United States -- Williams' Original Dixie Jubilee Singers -- Three Questions -- Any Rags -- DarkTown Barbacue -- Nobody -- Hail to the Spirit of Freedom; Souvenir of the Lincoln Jubilee -- Make Way for Cindy! -- Impecunious Davis; characteristic two-step, march and cake-walk -- Miss Dinah Fair; a darkey dissertation.
- Scope and Contents
- This collection, which dates from circa 1899-1952, contains sheet music mostly by African-American composers. These materials were purchased in support of the exhibit "The Renaissance: Black Arts of the Twenties" which was held at the Anacostia Community Museum from September 1985--December 1986.
- Date
- circa 1899-1952
- Extent
- 1.66 Linear feet (24 sheet music, 1 box)
- Citation
- Sheet Music collection, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Sheet music
- Topic
- Harlem Renaissance
- African Americans -- Music
- Identifier
- ACMA.10-005

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- You're in the right Church but the wrong pew, by Cecil Mack and Chris Smith
- Nobody, Words by Alex Rogers and Music by Bert A. Williams
- He's up against the real thing, by William & Walker
- Make Way for Cindy! Composed by A. C. Severance
- The Blues I've got, by N.E. Reed and Ethel Neal
- Impecunious Davis: characteristic two-step march, polka and cake-walk
- Cotton Club Parade, by Bill Robinson and Cab Calloway
- Porgy and Bess, by George Gershwin
- Harlem Lullaby, by Margot Millham and Willard Robison
- Three Questions A Ballad by J. Rosamond Johnson
- Everytime I pick a sweetie, by Andrea Razaf, Phil Worde and Allie Moore
- When you sang "Hush-a-bye Baby" to me; Companion song to Missouri waltz song (Hush-a-bye ma baby), by Jesse G.M. Glick, Frederic Knight Logan and Abe Olman
- Any Rags, featured by Dan Coleman in Ward & Vokes Company
- The Moon Shines on the Moonshine, by Robert Hood Bowers and Francis De Witt
- Williams' Original Dixie Jubilee Singers
- Zip-a-dee-doo-dah, by Allie Wrubel & Ray Gilbert
- A feature with Miss Dinah Fair: A Darkey Dissertation by Lottie Thompson
- O Death Where is Thy Sting, Clarence A. Stout
- Hail to the Spirit of Freedom: Souvenir of the Lincoln Jubilee, W.C. Handy
- DarkTown Barbacue, Words and Music by Will Marion Cook
- Any old place in Yankee land is good enough for me, by William & Walker
- Minstrel Book with Charts, Jokes, Poems and Songs (words and music)
- A toast to W.C. Handy
- Ole Mammy's Lullaby Songs