Music Manuscripts, Sheet Music, and Music Related Material
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Sidney, George, 1916-2002
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content: George Sidney Collection
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1885-1992
label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0867, Series 4
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This series is wide ranging and includes not only music manuscripts and sheet music from motion pictures associated with and/or directed by Sidney but from other motion pictures and Broadway shows as well.  The sheet music covers an inclusive range of MGM titles, both musical and non-musical films, for the years of Sidney's tenure at that studio.  The sheet music appears to have been collected by various members of the Sidney family.  The copy of "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" is inscribed to his wife Lillian Burns Sidney. A copy of "Serenade" is inscribed to Louis K. Sidney from E.V. Cupere.  Sheet music is arranged alphabetically by title of motion picture, Broadway, or television show.  Productions are dated to their generally accepted first theatrical release date or, in the case of a Broadway show, their opening date.  If there are two dates, one is the Broadway opening date and the subsequent motion-picture release date or vice-versa.  This series includes advance artist copies of songs as well as standard sheet music releases.  Some of the sheet music from Broadway shows may have been purchased by Sidney with an eye to their worth as potential musical film projects.  Some of the sheet music may have been used by Sidney's vaudevillian uncle, George Sidney. This series is divided into three subseries.

Subseries 4.1, Music Manuscripts, 1937-1960, undated

Subseries 4.2, Sheet Music, 1885-1990

Subseries 4.3, Music Related Material, 1971-1992, undated