Phono Sheet Music Art
Sheet Music Art related to the Phonograph
The Song of Mister Phonograph
Artist: Unknown, 1878
Printed by G. Schirmer
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
Courtesy of The Library of Congress
Phonograph March Brillante
Artist: Engraving from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News, 1878
Printed by White-Smith Music Publishing Co.
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
Engraving of operatic star Marie Roze recording on an Edison tinfoil Phonograph (known as the "Brady" model)
Courtesy of The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins University
Phonograph Waltzer
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
Engraving of message being sent from Paris to Peking via tinfoil phonograph circa 1878
Courtesy of Antique Phonograph Monthly (Allen Koenigsberg) and John Reid
The Edison Phonograph Polka
Artist: Engraving by Walker Bros., Chicago, 1894
Published by Lyon & Healy, Chicago, ILL.
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
Courtesy of Archive.org
The "Record" Lancers
Artist: Unknown, 1906
Printed by G. Udloff & Co. 34 Eagle Street, Hoborn, W.C.
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
Courtesy of The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins University
Hoop-e-kack
Artist: Starmer
Published by Walter Jacobs, Boston, Massachusetts, 1909
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
Courtesy of Sheet Music Collection - York University
LISTEN to Indestructible Cylinder Record No. 1113 - Banjo solo by Vess L. Ossman
Melodious Jazz
Artist: Unknown, 1920
Published by Waterson, Berling & Snyder Co.
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
LISTEN to Noble Sissle sing "Melodious Jazz" on vertical-cut Pathé 22357, recorded circa March 1920
Sonora, “The Melody Beautiful,” published 1920 by Sonora Phonograph Company Inc.
“Music Hath Charms.” Lyrics by Sewall D. Andrews, music by Walter J. Hamlin.
Lithograph by Hayes Litho Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Poem inside front cover is titled “The Day,” which describes working people’s hard life by day but relaxing around the phonograph’s dreamy waltzes and gay fox trots at night.
Sonora's trademark was "Clear as a Bell"
Money Song
Artist: Unknown, 1922
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
Courtesy of The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins University
At Home With My Pathe Pathephone
Artist: Unknown, 1916
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
Courtesy of The Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection, Johns Hopkins University
Maggie Blues
Artist: Starmer, c1922
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
Courtesy of WIMA Collections: Irish Fest Collection
LISTEN on the Library of Congress National Jukebox
Victor Record 19010 - The Virginians, Isabelle Patricola, Billy Murray 1922-12-20
Label and recording courtesy of Library of Congress
"Our Melody The Phonograph Song"
Artist: Unknown, 1956
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)
Published by Minerva Music
LISTEN to Guy Lombarbo and His Royal Canadians play Our Melody The Phonograph Song
"Ma-Ma-Maria"
Artist: Unknown, c1941
Media: Paper (Sheet Music)