Subjects
name: label: Series Creator
content: DeVincent, Sam, 1918-1997
setName: label: See more items in
content: Sam DeVincent Collection of Illustrated American Sheet Music, Series 36: Folios and Songbooks
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 97 Boxes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1853-1976, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0300.S36, Subseries 36.1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Contained in boxes 1-48 and 55-103 and arranged first in chronological order and then in alphabetical order by subject or musical genre. A portion of the materials consists of popular and favorite songs of a particular year. The bulk of the material dates from 1853 to 1976. Undated materials are listed in alphabetical order by subject or musical genre. The music is generally composed for piano, piano/vocal, and violin. Many of the materials are piano exercises including scales, student series songbooks, finger skills, and vocal drills. Assorted songs were created by composers such as Bach, Chopin, Handel, and Czerny. Some of the materials were published by radio stations. Musical genres and song styles represented include blues, classical, comedy, community, country, cowboy, folk, gospel, hymns, instructional, jazz, marches, novelty, parodies, popular, spirituals, traditional, vaudeville, western songs, and World War II songs.