The M. Abbott Van Nostrand (AC 1934) Theatre Collection Music Holdings, ca. 1900-1950
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The M. Abbott Van Nostrand Theatre Collection Music Holdings
Van Nostrand, M. Abbott (Morris Abbott), collector
Biographical History for: The M. Abbott Van Nostrand Theatre Collection Music Holdings
Biographical Note The material formed a single unit as received from Mr. M. Abbott Van Nostrand, and presumably was housed together at Samuel French, Inc. as it is listed in this finding aid.
Scope and Contents of the Collection The collection consists primarily of multi-part manuscript orchestrations of early-twentieth-century musicals. However, some printed sheet music and some later materials are also included.
Musicals--United States--Scores.
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Amherst College. Class of 1934. Van Nostrand.
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After the ball
All that glitters is not gold
Aloma
American fantasy of quodlibets
Betty be good (start)
Betty be good (end)
Blue jeans
Brother Rat
Buddies (start)
Buddies (cont.)
Buddies (end)
Burlesque
The constant nymph
East is west
Experience (start)
Experience (end)
Fashion girl
50 miles from Boston
Fireman's flame (start)
Fireman's flame (end)
45 minutes from Broadway
Founders
G & S cocktail
George Washington Jr. (start)
George Washington Jr. (end)
The girl who wasn't
The golden grotto
Good doctor
Happy (start)
Happy (end)
Harmony Hall
Helen of Troy, N.Y. (start)
Helen of Troy, N.Y. (end)
Honey girl (start)
Honey girl (end)
Inn mates
Judy
June moon
The kingdom of love
The kiss burglar
A kiss in Xanadu
Kosher Kitty Kelly
Lady Billy (start)
Lady Billy (end)
Little Johnny Jones (start)
Little Johnny Jones (end)
Little Nellie Kelly (start)
Little Nellie Kelly (end)
Lollipop
The love waltz (start)
The love waltz (end)
The magic ring/Mitzi (start)
The magic ring/Mitzi (cont.)
The magic ring/Mitzi (end)
Marigold
Mary
Masquerade (start)
Masquerade (end)
The matinee girl (start)
The matinee girl (end)
Medea
Mr. Pepys
My girl (start)
My girl (end)
The naughty mamzelle
No other girl (start)
No other girl (end)
Oh boy! (start)
Oh boy! (end)
Oh lady lady (start)
Oh lady lady (end)
Old folks
The old homestead
Opera
Orpheus in the underworld
Our wives
Paris bound
Plain Jane (start)
Plain Jane (end)
Poppy (start)
Poppy (cont.)
Poppy (end)
Porgy
Prunella
Queen high
Quincy Adams Sawyer
Raggedy Ann
Rosalie runs riot
Snow White
Some girl
Sonny
Story book land
Sweet little devil (start)
Sweet little devil (end)
Teddy Somersault
1066 and all that (start)
1066 and all that (end)
13 Rue de l'Amour
Top hole (start)
Top hole (end)
The two bouquets (start)
The two bouquets (end)
Under fire
Up she goes
The vagabond king (start)
The vagabond king (end)
Vamping Venus
Wilson in the Promised Land
A woman's revenge
The Yankee prince (start)
The Yankee prince (end)
Olympic revels
The invincibles
Sunday costs five pesos
[no title -- revue?] (start)
[no title -- revue?] (end)
Snow White (start)
Snow White (end)
Girofle, Girofla (start)
Girofle, Girofla (end)
[no title -- revue?]
Steppin' around
Flo Flo
Beggar on horseback
[misc.]
Miss Blue Eyes
The love waltz
Dig, dig, dig
When Shakespeare's ladies sing
Oh say can you see L.A.
Oh marry me
Wonderful waltz [was "The love waltz"]
Complaining angel
Work & wages
Old Knockles
The wandering minstrel
Earliest editions
Sustained objection
Where the bee sucks
Danse electrique
La cigale (start)
La cigale (cont.)
La cigale (end)
Norma travestie
The transferred ghost
Cruiskeen lawn
Soft shoe shuffle
Your heart
Half the day's gone
Gypsy caravan
A cold stare
Cherries and plums
Norma
Il talismano
I puritani
La sonnambula
Carmen
Mefistofele
Fra Diavolo
Morocco bound
The lads of the village
Don Pasquale
La figlia del reggimento
Linda di Chamounix Lucrezia Borgia
John and Angelina
No cards
A G & S cocktail
The land of bon-bons
Andrea Chenier Faust
Our toys
Romeo e Giulietta
Mirella
Phroso
Jeanne d'Arc
If I had money
Richard the Third
Erminie
The mountebanks (start)
The mountebanks (end)
Caller Herrin'
Castle Bang
Cups and saucers
Corsican brothers
Music hath charms
Chilperic
Hoodman blind
A jug of punch
Le cour & la main
Valse chantée
La fille de Madame Angot
My uncle the ghost
The poor little Savoyard
The pretty girl milking her cow
Honour, riches, marriage, blessing
O bid your faithful Ariel fly
The lion who wouldn't
The haunted mill
I'd once a London lover
Mary wreathed her shining hair
Ruy Blas
Love's sweet summer
Mary's song
L'etoile du nord
Les Huguenots
Le prophete
Il flauto magico
Le nozze di Figaro
Morocco bound (German: Nach Marocco)
The blind beggars
The black squire
Brer Rabbit and Uncle Remus
[misc. songs]
Business in great waters
Coach and five
Fit to be tied
Peter Patter
Siren song
New York
Petite Poucette
Full fathom five
Come unto these yellow sands
[misc. unidentified]
Shenandoah
The silver king
Plain fancy chorus
The talk of N.Y.
Effie Deans
Le mariage aux lanternes
The springtime of the heart
The Yankee prince
The maypole dance [misc.]
La la Lucille
[Miscellaneous]
An American idea (start)
An American idea (end)
Grand Hotel (start) [#2003-066]
Grand Hotel (continued) [#2003-066]
Grand Hotel (end) [#2003-066]