Individual Songs
name: label: Series Creator
content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
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content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 26: General Sheet Music
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 86 Boxes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1843-1986, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0300.S26, Subseries 26.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Consists of individual song titles contained in boxes 1-86. Materials arranged loosely in alphabetical order by title. The bulk of the material dates from 1865 to 1971. The music is mostly arranged for piano, piano/vocal, and violin. Compositions include a wide variety of dances such as waltzes, polkas, marches, two-steps, tangos, and fox-trots. Some of the pieces are exercises directed towards children. A portion of the compositions are in Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Russian. This subseries consists of diverse subject material such as songs about romance, nature, religion, dreams, patriotism, and war. Most illustrations in the series depict individuals connected in some way to these subjects.