Collections : [Allen Music Library Special Collections]

This collection contains 218 popular music dance band selections from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Composer represented here include: Spencer Adams; Russell Alexander; Harry L. Alford; Egbert van Alstyne; Will R. Anderson; Bert R. Anthony; Fred T. Ashton; Charles L. Van Baar; Ernest R. Ball; Ashley Ballou; A.W. Bauer; C.W. Bennet; Irving Berlin; Leo E. Berliner; Milton D. Blake, H.B. Blank and Schwartz; N. Bousquet; E.L. Bowman; Edmund Braham; R.H. Brennen; Louise Breau; G.B. Brigham; Fred C. Brooks; Shelton Brooks; Will M.S. Brown; Ernest Bucalossi; Benjamin Burt; Carl Carlton ; Ivan Caryll; W.P. Chambers; James P. Conlin; Charles L. Cooke ; G.F. Daniels; Denni; Herbert Dillea; Will E. Dulmage; O.R. Farrar; Carl Fischer; Bayard E. Foote; A. Ford; Rudolf Friml; Joseph Gearen; T. Mayo Geary; Gilbert, Friedland and Morgan; Gilbert and Muir; L. Wolfe Gilbert; Vivian Grey (Mabel McKinley); Gumble and Blake; Fred W. Hager; John T. Hall; R.B. Hall; Edward Hazel; Milt H. Hall; H.L. Heartz; J. Fred Helf; S.R. Henry; Victor Herbert; Pierre Heyendal; Williams Hill; Louis H. Hirsche; Abe Holzmann; Joseph E. Howard; Raymond Hubbell; Fred K. Huffer; Herbert Ingraham; Bob Irving; Victor Jacobi; Walter Jacobs (publisher); Carrie Jacobs-Bond; Jerome and Schwartz; Ben M. Jerome; Frank H. Jimerson; Charles L. Johnson; Archibald Joyce; Ruby Kalmar; Kapulè Kanoa; Mel Kaufman; F. Henri Klickmann; John N. Klohr; Clare Kummer; J. Bodewalt Lampe; L.P. Laurendeau; Sidney Leroy; John Leubrie Hill; Harry J. Lincoln; Edward Llewellyn; E.E. Loftis; F.H. Losey; Gustav Luders; Cecil Mack and Chris Smith; W.H. Mackie; Gifford Mellor; J.W. Menges; Roy O. Myers; Kerry Mills; E. Milok; Neil Moret; Theo F. Morse; Theo Moses-Tobani; Lewis F. Muri and Maurice Abrahams; Gilbert Muir; O'Donnell and Smith; William C. O'Hare; Lee Orean Smith; William Penn and Edward Hutchinson; Clarence J. Penney; William Frederick Peters; Al Piantadosi; Georg Porepp; Arthur Pryor; Add J. Ressegue; Henry Restorff; F.R. Seltzer; J. Lawrence Ritchie; Charles J. Roberts; Walter Rolfe; Selden-Ingraham and Kendis-Payley; Shannon and Johnson; Albert Sirmay; Arthur Sizemore and Egbert van Alstyne; Maurice F. Smith, Jack Snyder, Ted Snyder, Richard Stahl, B.H. Starks, George Stevens, G. Van Stone, John Stromberg, Thurban and Berger; Ludomir Thomas, Harry von Tilzer, George J. Trinkaus, C.E. Vadersloot, Paul Wachs, E. Waldteufel, Charles B. Ward, Freddy Watson, R.L. Weaver, Arthur Wellesly, Percy Wenrich, Wenrich and Blanke-Belcher, Wenrich and Dunlap, Werden and Gladdish, E.M. Wheatley, White and Lloyd, H. Lane Wilson, L.O. De Witt, L. Wolfe Gilbert and Robert E. Keiser Arthur Wood, Pedro de Zulueta, Wooster and Smith, Ellen Wright, Jack Yellen and Abe Olman, C.F. Zerbe and Harry Zickel. Arrangers represented include: Harry L. Alford; Hilding Anderson; J.C. Arnold; Emile Asher; Fred T. Ashton; Frank E. Barry; C.F. Bauer; Robert Russell Bennett; J. Lampe Bodewalt; M.I. Brazil; Geo. F. Briegel; Charles F. Carey; Carl Carlton; J.W. Chattaway; Tom Clark; F.W. Clement; James P. Conlin; H.A. Dahlman; Ribé Danmark; Ivan L. Davis; S. Deshon; C. Dotzler; C.A. Egener; Everett J. Evans; Herman Friederich; John T. Hall; R. L. Halle; J.C. Heed; T.W. Hindley; S. Jergensen; Charles L. Johnson; Stephen Jones; Stephen O. Jones; Dave Kaplin; Louis Katzman; Carl Kiefert; F. Henri Klickmann; John N. Klohr; Arthur Lange; Otto Langey; L. P. Laurendeau; F.H. Losey; W.H. Mackie; James C. McCabe; McKee; J. Messina; Charles Miller; Theo- Moses-Tobani; William C. O'Hare; D. Onivas Charles Puerner; Charles Quinn; William M. Redfield F.; Robert Recker; J. Ringleben Jr.; Charles J. Roberts; E. Rosales; Frank Saddler; 'La Salle;' Schaefer; E. R. Schremser; William Schul; Lee Orean Smith; Maurice S. Smith; Fred White; Carl F. Williams; L. O. Witt; and Arthur Wood. Statement on Potentially Harmful Content: Many of the items in our collections are reflective of the time period in which they were created, rather than the current beliefs and values of our institution. They may contain offensive or outdated language and imagery because of content relating to ability, gender, race, religion, sexuality, sexual orientation, and other categories. While some descriptions in our finding aids are written by staff, others reflect language that was used by the people and organizations that created the material. When we encounter problematic language that we believe a staff member created, we update it. Language that comes from the original archival material can provide information about the people who created it. In such cases, library staff members strive to provide additional context whenever possible.

This collection primarily contains published opera, oratorio, and musical theatre libretti, along with a few programs and Metropolitan Opera House Grand Opera Season guides. These are of particular interest in terms of their covers, publication materials, and performance information. Many of the libretti were donated by music critic Olin Downes; these contain handwritten research notes, drafts of reviews, miscellaneous programs and cast lists for the Metropolitan Opera Company. Publication dates range from 1804-1960s, and composers represented include Eugen D'Albert, Louise Aubert, J.S. Bach, L.V. Beethoven, Vincenzo Bellini, Georges Bizet, François-Adrien Boieldieu, Arrigo Boito, Benjamin Britten, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Francesco Cavalli, Gustave Charpentier, Domenico Chimarosa, Frederick Shepherd Converse, Walter Damrosch, Claude Debussy, Léo Delibes, Gaetano Donizetti, Frank Dumont, Manuel De Falla, Henry Fevrier, Carlisle Floyd, Alberto Franchetti, Vittorio Giannini, Umberto Giordano, Christophe Willibald Von Gluck, Charles Gounod, Henry Hadley, Jacques F. Haley, George Frederick Handel, Howard Hanson, Frederic Hart, Ferdinand, Hérold, Paul Hindemith, Arthur Honegger, Engelbert Humperdinck, Leoš Janáček, Sidney Jones, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Ernst Krenek, Reginald De Koven, Charles Lecocq, Franz Lehar, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Franco Leoni, Luigi Mancinelli, Pietro Mascagni, Victor Masse, Jules Massenet, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Isaac Hickman Meredith, Giancarlo Meyerbeer, Darius Milhaud, Italo Montemezzi, Claudio Monteverdi, Modest Moussorgsky, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Errico Petrella, Amilcare Ponchielli, Sergei Prokofieff, Giacomo Puccini, Henri Rabaud, Maurice Ravel, Ottorino Respighi, Ernest Reyer, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Lodovico Rocca, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Bernard Rogers, Ludwig Roselius, Gioacchino Rossini, Anton Grigorievich Rubinstein, Camille Saint-Saëns, Shanghai Shi Long jiang song ju zuo, Arnold Schönberg, Friedrich Smetana, Gaspare Spontini, William Grant Still, Deems Taylor, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, The Ukrainian National Chorus, Guiseppe Verdi, Giovanni Verga, Ignatz Waghalter, Richard Wagner, David Ward-Steinman, Carl Maria von Weber, Jaromir Weinberger Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Kurt Weill, Riccardo Zandonai, along with the United States Army.