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Browsing/Searching Music by Subject

The various items in the collection have been assigned subject categories from the Library of Congress' List of Subject Headings. To assist you in finding illustration subjects that may be of interest to you, a list of the descriptive terms used in this collection is shown below. You can search for sheet music with these subjects in the "Subject" boxes of Search One and Two, or simply click on the subject terms on this page to automatically perform a search in Search Two.

• Aerialists -- Songs and music.
• Afro-American children -- Songs and music.
• Afro-American men.
• Afro-American women -- Songs and music.
• Afro-Americans -- Clothing -- Songs and music.
• Afro-Americans -- Dancing -- Songs and music.
• Afro-Americans -- Music.
• Afro-Americans -- Social life and customs -- 1890-1899.
• Afro-Americans -- Songs and music.
     See also Freedmen -- Songs and music.
            Slavery in the United States -- Songs and music.
• Afro-Americans in popular culture -- Music.
• Afro-Americans in popular culture -- Songs and music.
• Anthems.
• Ballads, English -- Scotland.
• Ballads, English -- United States.
• Ballads, English.
• Ballads.
• Ballets -- Excerpts Vocal scores with piano.
• Ballets -- Excerpts, Arranged.
• Bay View Park (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Songs and music.
• Blackface entertainers -- California San Francisco.
     See also Minstrel Shows -- California -- San Francisco
• Boats -- Songs and music.
• Boleros.
• Bridalveil Fall, Calif. -- Music.
• Brother Jonathan (Steamship)
• Buildings -- California San Francisco -- 1872.
• Burlingame Club (Burlingame, Calif.) -- Songs and music.
• Bush St. Theatre (San Francisco, Calif.)
• California -- Gold discoveries -- Songs and music.
• California -- Infantry -- First Regiment -- Second Brigade.
• California -- Militia.
• California -- National Guard.
• California -- Placerville.
• California -- Politics and government -- 1850-1950 -- Songs and music.
• California -- Songs and music.
• California Midwinter International Exposition -- (1894 : -- San Francisco, Calif.) -- Songs and music.
• California Midwinter International Exposition -- (1894 : -- San Francisco, Calif.)
• Californios
     See Folk-songs, Spanish.
• Campaign songs, 1892 -- Democrats.
• Campaign songs, 1896 -- Republican.
• Campaign songs.
• Carols.
     See also Christmas music.
• Cathedrals. -- France Reims.
• Champagne (Wine) -- Songs and music.
     See also Sparkling wines -- California -- Folsom -- Music.
• Children's songs.
• Choral music.
• Choral recitations.
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with organ.
     See also Hymns.
            Sacred songs.
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with -- keyboard instrument.
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with -- organ.
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano.
• Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts), -- Unaccompanied.
• Choruses, Secular (Men's voices) with piano.
• Choruses, Secular (Men's voices, 4 parts) with piano.
• Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices) with piano.
• Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices)
• Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 3 parts) with piano.
• Choruses, secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano.
     See also Secular choruses (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano.
• Choruses, Secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts)
• Choruses, secular (Mixed voices, TTAB) and piano.
• Choruses.
• Christmas music.
     See also Carols.
• Chromolithographs.
• Civil War -- United States, 1861-1865.
     See Sherman's March to the Sea -- Songs and music.
            United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music.
• Clay Street Hill Railroad Company of the City and County of San Francisco -- Songs and music.
• Cliff House (San Francisco, Calif :1863-1894) -- Songs and music.
• Cliff House (San Francisco, Calif. : 1863-1894).
• Cliff house (San Francisco, Calif.)
• Concerts -- Programs
• Consolidated Virginia Mining Co. Mill -- Music.
• Cornet and piano music.
• Courtship -- Songs and music.
     See also Love -- songs and music.
            Love songs.
• Cupid -- Songs and music.
• Daly's Fifth Avenue Theatre.
• Dance music (Piano), Arranged.
• Dance music, Polish.
• Dance music.
• Death in music.

• Easter music.
• Elks, Benevolent and Protective Order of. -- Oakland Lodge No. 171 -- Songs and music.
• Elks, Benevolent and Protective Order of. -- Sacramento Lodge No. 328 -- Songs and Music.
• Engravings.
• Entertainers -- California San Francisco
• Fantasias (Piano)
• Fantasias.
• Fiest de Los Angeles -- (1894 : -- Los Angeles, Calif.) -- Music.
• Fire engines -- Songs and music.
• Fire fighters -- California -- San Francisco -- Songs and music.
• Fires -- Wisconsin-- Milkaukee -- Songs and music.
• Flags -- Portugal.
• Flute and piano music.
• Flute and piano music.
• Folk songs -- Hawaii.
     See also Hula (Dance).
            Hawaii -- Songs and music.
            Hawaiian songs.
            Popular music -- Hawaii.
            Songs -- Hawaii.
            Songs, Hawaiian.
• Folk-songs -- California.
• Folk-songs, Spanish -- California.
• Forty-niners
     See California -- Gold discoveries -- Songs and music.
            Goldmines and mining.
            Goldmining.
• France
     See Cathedrals -- France Reims.
            Patriotic music -- Alsace.
• Freedmen -- Songs and music.
• Freemasons -- Songs and music.
     See also Knights Templar (Masonic order) -- Songs and music.
            Masonic Temple (San Francisco, Calif.).
• Fresno morning republican -- Songs and music.
• Funeral music.
• Galops (Piano)
• Galops.
• Garfield, James A. -- (James Abram), -- 1831-1881 -- portraits.
• Gavottes.
• Generals.
• Gipsies -- Songs and music.
• Golden Gate Strait -- Songs and music.
• Goldmines and mining -- California -- Music.
• Goldmines and mining -- California -- Songs and music.
• Goldmining -- California -- Songs and music.
• Gold rush
     See California -- Gold discoveries -- Songs and music.
• Gospel music.
• Guitar music, Arranged.
• Harmony.
• Hawaii -- Songs and music.
• Hawaiian songs.
     See also Folks-songs, Hawaiian.
            Hula (Dance).
            Popular music -- Hawaii.
            Songs -- Hawaii.
            Songs, Hawaiian.
• Heine, Heinrich, -- 1797-1856 -- Musical settings.
• Hispanics.
     See Folk-songs, Spanish.
• History Building (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Woodcuts.
• Hottentots
• Howe, Julia Ward, -- 1819-1910 -- Musical settings.
• Hula (Dance).
     See also Folk-songs, Hawaiian.
            Hawaii -- Songs and music.
            Hawaiian songs.
            Popular music -- Hawaii.
            Songs -- Hawaii.
            Songs, Hawaiian.
• Human evolution -- Songs and music.
• Humorous songs.
• Hymns, English.
• Hymns.
     See also Choruses, sacred.
            Sacred songs.

• Incidental music -- Excerpts, Arranged.
• Ireland
     See Irish songs.
            Patriotic music -- Ireland.
            Songs, English -- Ireland.
• Irish songs.
• Jigs.
• Knife fighting -- Songs and music.
• Knights Templar (Masonic order) -- Songs and music.
     See also Freemasons -- Songs and music.
            Masonic Temple (San Francisco, Calif.).
• Latinos.
     See Folk-songs, Spanish.
• Lick Observatory -- Music.
• Lind, Jenny, -- 1820-1887 -- Songs and music.
• Lithographs.
• Love -- Songs and music.
• Love songs.
     See also Courtship -- Songs and music.
• Lullabies, American.
• Lullabies.

• Maine (Battleship) -- Music.
• Maine (Battleship) -- Songs and music.
• Mandoline and piano music.
• Mandoline music.
• Marches (Piano), Arranged.
• Marches (Piano).
• Marches (Voice with piano).
• Marches.
• Marriage -- Songs and music.
     See also Wedding music.
• Masonic Temple (San Francisco, Calif.).
     See also Freemasons -- Songs and music.
            Knights Templar (Masonic order) -- Songs and music.
• Mazurkas (Piano).
• Mazurkas.
• Mechanics' Institute (San Francisco, Calif.).
• Mechanics' Institute Fair -- (1871 : -- San Francisco, Calif.) -- Music.
• Military departments and divisions -- California.
• Mining corporations -- California -- Music.
• Minstrel Shows -- California -- San Francisco.
     See also Blackface entertainers -- California San Francisco.
• Minstrels -- California -- San Francisco.
• Minuets (Piano).
• Monopolies -- Songs and music.
• Music -- Bibliography -- Catalogs -- California -- San Francisco.
• Music -- Bibliography -- Catalogs -- Oregon -- Portland.
• Music -- California -- Periodicals
• Music -- Hawaii.
• Music -- Periodicals -- California -- San Francisco
• Music, Popular (Songs, etc.) -- United States.
     See also Popular music -- United States.
• Musical comedies, revues, etc. -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano.
• Musicals -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores with piano.
• Musicals -- Excerpts. -- To 1901
• Musicals -- Excerpts. -- Vocal scores with piano
• National emblems -- England.
• National emblems -- United States.
• National songs -- United States.
• National songs, American.
• Native Sons of the Golden West -- Songs and music.
• Newhall House (Milwaukee, Wis.) -- Songs and music.
• Newhome Sewing Machine Co. (Orange, Mass.) -- Woodcuts.
• Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc.
• Nocturnes (Piano)
• Nocturnes.
• Nursery rhymes -- Musical settings.
• Nursery rhymes.
• Oakland
     See city listing under Elks.
• Operas -- Excerpts - Vocal scores with piano.
• Operas -- Excerpts -- Vocal scores.
• Operas -- Excerpts, Arranged -- Vocal scores with piano.
• Operas -- Excerpts, Arranged, with piano.
• Operas -- Excerpts, Arranged.
• Operas -- Vocal scores with piano.
• Operettas -- Excerpts, Arranged -- Vocal scores with piano.
• Oregon (Battleship) -- Music.
• Organ music.
     See also Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with -- organ.
            Reed organ.
            Sacred songs with organ.
• Overtures (Piano, 4 hands), Arranged.
• Overtures arranged for piano (4 hands)
• Overtures arranged for piano.
• Pacific Union Express -- Songs and music.
• Panama-Pacific International Exposition -- (1915 : -- San Francisco, Calif.) -- Songs and music.
• Patriotic music -- Alsace.
• Patriotic music -- Ireland.
• Patriotic music -- United States.
• Patriotic music, American.
• Patriotic music.
• Photographs.
• Piano -- Studies and exercises.
• Piano (4 hands).
• Piano and coronet music.
• Piano music -- Teaching pieces.
• Piano music (4 hands) -- Teaching pieces.
• Piano music (4 hands), Arranged.
• Piano music (4 hands).
• Piano music, Arranged.
• Piano music.
• Plantation life -- Songs and music.
• Poland
     See Dance music, Polish.
• Political ballads and songs.
• Polka-mazurkas (Piano)
• Polkas (Piano).
• Polkas.
• Popular instrumental music. -- To 1901.
• Popular music -- Hawaii.
     See also Folk-songs, Hawaiian.
            Hula (Dance).
            Hawaii -- Songs and music.
            Hawaiian songs.
            Songs -- Hawaii.
            Songs, Hawaiian.
• Popular music -- United States -- To 1901.
• Popular music. -- United States.
     See also Music, Popular (Songs, etc.) -- United States.
• Popular music.
• Portrait photographs.
• Prague, Battle of, 1757 -- Songs and music.
• Program music.
• Psalms (Music) -- 34th Psalm.
• Psalms (Music) -- 67th Psalm.

• Quadrilles.
• Ragtime music.
• Railroads -- Songs and music.
• Reed organ music.
• Sacramento
     See city listing under Elks.
• Sacred duets with piano.
• Sacred songs (High voice) with piano.
• Sacred songs (Low voice) with piano.
• Sacred songs with keyboard instruments.
• Sacred songs with organ.
• Sacred songs with piano.
• Sacred songs.
     See also Choruses, sacred.
            Hymns.
• San Francisco (Calif.) -- Songs and music.
• San Francisco (Calif.).
     See also city listing under
            Blackface entertainers.
            Buildings
            Bush St. Theatre.
            California Midwinter International Exposition.
            Clay Street Hill Railroad Company.
            Cliff House.
            Entertainers.
            Fire fighters.
            History building.
            Masonic Temple.
            Minstrel shows.
            Mechanics' Institute.
            Music -- Bibliography.
            Music -- Periodicals.
            Street railroads.
            Trade unions.
• Schottisches (Piano).
• Schottisches.
• Scotland
     See Ballads, English -- Scotland.
            Songs, Scottish.
• Sea songs.
• Seal Rocks (San Francisco, Calif.).
• Secular choruses (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano.
     See also Choruses, secular (Mixed voices, 4 parts) with piano.
• Shepherds -- Songs and music.
• Shepherds in art.
• Sherman's March to the Sea -- Songs and music.
• Slavery in the United States -- Songs and music.
• Soldiers -- Songs and music.
• Sonatas (Piano)
• Sonatas (Piano, 4 hands)
• Song of Solomon (Music)
• Song-books.
• Songs -- Hawaii.
     See also Folk-songs, Hawaiian.
            Hula (Dance).
            Hawaii -- Songs and music.
            Hawaiian songs.
            Popular music -- Hawaii.
            Songs, Hawaiian.
• Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble.
• Songs (High voice) with piano and flute.
• Songs (High voice) with piano and violin.
• Songs (High voice) with piano.
• Songs (Low voice) with piano.
• Songs (Medium voice) with piano.
• Songs and choruses (SATB) with piano.
• Songs with guitar.
• Songs with orchestra -- Vocal scores with piano.
• Songs with piano.
• Songs, English -- Ireland.
• Songs, Hawaiian.
     See also Folk-songs, Hawaiian.
            Hula (Dance).
            Hawaii -- Songs and music.
            Hawaiian songs.
            Popular music -- Hawaii.
            Songs -- Hawaii.
• Songs, Scottish.
• Songs.
• South Carolina -- Songs and music.
• Spanish American War, 1898 -- Songs and music.
• Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Music.
• Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Pictorial works.
• Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Regimental histories -- California.
• Sparkling wines -- California -- Folsom -- Music.
• Spirituals (Songs).
• Stanford University -- Songs and music.
• State seals -- California.
• Street-railroads -- California -- San Francisco -- Songs and music.
• Students' songs.
• Symphonic poems arranged for piano.
• Tarantellas.
• Te Deum Laudamus (Music)
• Temperance -- Songs and music.
• Theatres -- Songs and music.
• Trade-unions -- California -- San Francisco.
• Trans-Mississippi Exposition -- (1898 : -- Omaha) -- Songs and music.

• U.S. Marine Band.
• Union Pacific Railroad Company -- Songs and music.
• Union Pacific Railroad Company.
• United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music.
• United States Volunteers. California Infantry Regiment, lst (1898-1899) -- Songs and music.
• University of California -- Songs and music.
• Variations (Piano).
• Variations (Violin and piano)
• Violin and organ music -- Scores and parts.
• Violin and piano music, Arranged.
• Violin and piano music.
• Vocal duets with piano.
• Vocal music.
• Vocal quartets with piano.
• Vocal trios with piano.
• Waltzes (Piano), Arranged.
• Waltzes (Piano).
• Waltzes (Piano, 4 hands).
• Waltzes (Voice with piano).
• Waltzes.
• War songs, American.
• Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 -- Songs and music.
• Wedding music.
     See also Marriage -- Songs and music.
• Wine -- Songs and music.
     See also Champagne (Wine) -- Songs and music.
            Sparkling wines -- California -- Folsom -- Music.
• Wives -- Songs and music.
• Women -- Clothing & dress -- 1850s.
• Women -- Costume.
• Yosemite National Park (Calif.) -- Music.