Sheet Music, Love Theme From "Madame X" (Swedish Rhapsody)
date: label: copyright date
content: 1947
notes: label: Description
content: The use of "X" to denote an unknown quantity has been common in mathematics from the eighteenth century. In 1908, the French playwright Alexandre Bisson wrote a play with the title "Madame X" featuring a woman who chose not to reveal her identity - hence known as Madame X. When this play was made into a Universal Pictures movie in the 1960s, the theme song used was Charles Wildman's "Swedish Rhapsody," now entitled "Love Theme From [sic] 'Madame X." The copyright dates on this sheet music for the piece are 1947 and 1948, the actual sheet music considerably later..
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Mathematics
label: Subject
content: Music
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content: Medicine and Science: Mathematics
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Music
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1988.3086.016
label: catalog number
content: 1988.3086.016
label: nonaccession number
content: 1988.3086
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sheet Music
label: Object Type
content: Sheet Music
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: .1 cm x 23 cm x 30.6 cm; 1/32 in x 9 1/16 in x 12 1/16 in