Sheet Music

  • # 41144

    LAWRENCE, Alf. J. and GODFREY, Fred (words & music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Have you got another girl at home like Mary.

    Cover: The latest song craze. / Miss Cissie Curlette’s great success. Melbourne, Bendigo & Geelong : Allan & Co., [ca. 1908]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 269. Folio (355 x 250 mm), upper wrapper with inset portrait of English vaudeville singer Cissie Curette by Talma (taken during her 1909 Australian tour), inscribed by original …

  • # 40032

    PLOCK, A. (composer); TROEDEL, Charles (lithographer); NICHOLSON, J. C. W. (publisher)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Plock’s Little Footsteps galop

    Melbourne : J. C. W. Nicholson, [1874]. Folio (345 x 250 mm), disbound, pictorial wrappers with a striking front cover design lithographed by Charles Troedel; 5 pp music notation (arrangement for piano); scattered foxing, else a fine copy. Published in Melbourne in July 1874 by Nicholson, Plock’s Little Footsteps galop was described by one newspaper …

  • # 40063

    CLEMINSON BROS. (PARRAMATTA); J. ALBERT & SON (MELBOURNE)

    [SHEET MUSIC] A convenient list of Albert’s catchy music carefully selected and alphabetically arranged.

    Cover title: Music hits of the hour from the home of catchy music. Parramatta, NSW : Cleminson Bros. (Late A.I.F.), 162 Church Street, [ca. 1920]. Trade catalogue. Small quarto (245 x 190 mm), illustrated stapled wrappers (chipped, original owner’s name ‘Miss Olive Burton’ to front), 44 pp., all advertisements for popular sheet music published by …

  • # 39764

    SPITZ, Charles Georges or HOARE, Sophia (attributed)

    [TAHITI; MUSIC] Airs tahitiens : Arue! Arue!

    [Circa 1885]. Albumen print photograph (160 x 210 mm) of two pages of music notation (the original was most likely handwritten and then lithographically printed before it was photographed); generic title legible as Airs tahitiens at the head of the left-hand page, with the title of the individual tune Arue! Arue! (= Praise! Praise!) at the head of …

  • # 39688

    SHIMADA, Yoshifumi (1898 - 1973, lyricist); KOGA, Masao (1904 - 1978, composer)

    “A beautiful evening”

    Tōkyō : Hakubi Shuppansha, Showa 6 (1931).  Sheet music for voice, piano and harmonica, fine art deco lithographed cover (artist unknown), pp. [8], a little silverfished on lower wrapper. No. 113 in the Hakubi Super Special Selection of Music Scores series. 

  • # 39188

    LEWIS, John W. (composer)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Australia March

    / Composed for the piano by John W. Lewis. Boston : Oliver Ditson, 1854. First edition. Folio bifolium (330 x 250 mm), disbound; 2 pp music notation (arrangement for piano), the first page with decorative title; as issued, with plain front and rear sides; on this copy, the original owner has annotated the front with …

  • # 38908

    ADAMS, Harry (words); JONGHMANS, E. (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Old England and the new

    / written by Harry Adams ; composed by E. Jonghmans. At the head of title: The Immensely Successful Anglo Australian Patriotic Song. Sung also by Harry Rickards. London : Hopwood & Crew ; Melbourne : Allan & Co., [1887]. Folio (315 x 260 mm), wrappers with a striking colour design of an Australian stockman by …

  • # 38907

    ESLICK, T. H. (words); ROMAINE, W. H. (music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Hullo girlie : the popular White City waltz song

     / words by T.H. Eslick ; music by W.H. Romaine. Sydney, NSW : London Music Agency, [1916]. Folio (350 x 250 mm), pictorial wrappers wet-stamped ‘Special White City Copy / Sixpence and with early ownership stamp of Hannah Morgan, Howe Street, Lambton (wrappers with light creasing); [3] pp music notation (arrangement for piano); some old tape …

  • # 38904

    STONEHAM, Reginald A. A. (1879-1942)

    [SHEET MUSIC; HAWAIIANA] Waikiki moon : vocal waltz

    / words & music by Reginald A. A. Stoneham. Melbourne : Reginald A. A. Stoneham, 361 Collins St., [ca. 1920]. Folio (310 x 230 mm), pictorial wrappers with blind stamp of Melbourne bookseller E. W. Cole to front, [3] pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano), last page with ownership wet stamp of Fred. W. …

  • # 14447

    Anon.

    A massive Spanish manuscript choir book in Latin

    An early eighteenth century Spanish Graduale Romanum, or Roman Gradual (the second of two volumes), with thick wooden boards and iron fittings, containing music and text for the proprium missal (proper of the mass), including a Peruvian credo and with an index to both volumes at the end arranged mostly alphabetically under five headings for the introits, graduals, …

  • # 36576

    `Hamonika Gakufu` [ハーモニカ楽譜]

    Tokyo : Shochiku Kinema: Bikuta, etc., Showa 3-6 [1928-31]. A collection of 6 Japanese music scores for the harmonica, offset-printed covers stunningly designed in an early Showa style by notable illustrators such as Imai Hisamaro, Saito Kazo, etc. 4 pamphlets measuring 26.3x19cm, each pp. 4 – 6. (including wrappers), one pamphlet measuring 26.3 x 19cm, pp. 24 (plus …

  • # 34606

    BEYER, Ferdinand (1803-1864)

    [SHEET MUSIC; MARQUESAS] Gesang von der Insel Nukahiwa / Chant de Nukahiva

    Mainz : bei B. Schott’s Söhnen ; Brüssel : bei Gebrüder Schott ; London : bei Schott & Cie., [1855?]. Series: Vaterlandslieder / Chants patriotiques / Für das Pianoforte bearbeitet von Ferd. Beyer. No. 45. Folio (330 x 260 mm), bifolium (detached), [4] pages, the front with title and imprint and a colour design featuring a French tricolour …

  • # 34251

    HALL, Fred (words and music); TISDALE, Clarence (performer)

    [SHEET MUSIC; FISK JUBILEE SINGERS] Laugh and the world laughs with you : song

    Cover: “Sung by Clarence Tisdale”. Melbourne : Allan & Co., [c.1908]. Series: Allan’s Popular Sixpenny Edition, no. 200. Folio (350 x 250 mm), illustrated cover with inset portrait of African-American tenor Clarence Tisdale by Talma Studios and vignette portrait of Fred Hall, original owner’s name ‘Roland Thomas’ and wet stamp of Melbourne music seller Miss …

  • # 32644

    WALTERS, Howard Arnold (words); STERNE, Laurie Annette (music); QUEENSLAND COUNTRY WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION

    [SHEET MUSIC] My creed.

    / The words by Howard Arnold Walters. The music by Laurie Annette Sterne. Dedicated to Ruth B. Fairfax, State President of the Queensland Country Women’s Association, May 1931. At head of title: “I would be Friend to All – The Foe – The Friendless”. Brisbane : The Read Press Pty. Ltd., Ann St., Valley [for …

  • # 32642

    LOW, Reg (words & music)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Ukulele dream girl.

    Words & music by Reg. Low. Arrangement for ‘banjulele’ banjo and ukulele by Kel Keech. Cover: A new haunting Hawaiian fox-trot song. Sung by Iza Crossley and Jock Thompson of Pat Hanna’s “Diggers” Costume Comedy Co. / Featured by Queenie & David Kaili with Kaai’s Hawaiian Troubadors / Delightfully featured by Jack Blake on Columbia …

  • # 32643

    O'HAGAN, Jack (1898-1987) (words & music); HALL, Frederick (arranger)

    [SHEET MUSIC] Along the road to Gundagai : song.

    / Words and music by Jack O’Hagan. Melbourne : Allan, 1922. Publisher’s number “B558”. Folio (315 x 240 mm), disbound, original pictorial wrappers (light printing flaws front and back) with inset portrait of “The Big Four” singers, and the early ownership signature of Grace Ward; 4 pp music notation (arrangement for voice and piano, with …