Descriptive Summary
Important Information for Researchers
Collection Scope and Content Summary
Collection Arrangement
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Clint Abbott historical sheet music collection
Date: 1852-1965,
Date (bulk): bulk 1890-1910
Collection Number: MS-P065
Collector: Abbott, Clint
Extent:
0.8 linear feet
(2 boxes)
Languages: The collection is in English.
Repository:
University of California, Irvine. Library. Special Collections and Archives.
Irvine, California 92623-9557
Abstract: This collection comprises approximately 200 pieces of late 19th-century and early 20th-century American sheet music.
Important Information for Researchers
Access
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and
their heirs. Some materials are in the public domain. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head
of Special Collections and Archives.
Preferred Citation
Clint Abbott Historical Sheet Music Collection. MS-P065. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine,
California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Acquisition Information
Gift of Clint Abbott, 2004.
Processing History
Processed by Audrey Pearson, 2008.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection comprises approximately 200 pieces of late 19th-century and early 20th-century popular American sheet music.
Many important composers are represented, including George Cohen, H.P. Danks, Septimus Winner, and Charles Harris. Also included
is a typescript copy of the libretto (Soufflierbuch) of
Der Fliegende Rittmeister, 1912, by Leo Stein and Béla Jenbach, and a handwritten score of Richard Genèe's
Die Mädchen-diebe [
The Wolves], 1860. Most individual scores have pictorial covers. The majority of songs are love songs, but the collection also includes
vaudeville music and minstrel music by blackface entertainers such as Gus Edwards' and Tom Daley's "All I Wants is My Black
Baby Back."
Collection Arrangement
This collection is arranged alphabetically by composer when possible. Some items are bound into volumes.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Popular music -- United States.
Minstrel music -- United States.
Blackface entertainers -- United States.
Genres and Formats of Materials
Songs -- United States -- 19th century.
Songs -- United States -- 20th century.
Sheet music covers -- United States -- 19th century.
Sheet music covers -- United States -- 20th century.
Sheet music -- United States -- 19th century.
Sheet music -- United States -- 20th century.
