Finding Aid for Virginia Root Collection, 1847-1945 | The Sousa Archives and Center for American Music

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Biographical Note

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Administrative Information

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Music, 1859-1945

Consists of octavo scores, libretti, sheet music collections, and piano vocal sheet music collected by, performed by, and dedicated to Root. Materials are arranged into two sub-series: sub-series 1) Octavo Choral Music, Libretti, and Sheet Music Collections and sub-series 2) Piano/Vocal Sheet Music Collection.

Sub-Series 1: Octavo Choral Music, Libretti, and Sheet Music Collections, 1879-1937

Consists of octavo scores, libretti, and sheet music collections gathered by and performed by Root. Materials are arranged alphabetically by composer's last name.

Box 1

Folder 1: Octavo Choral Music, 1890-1937

Includes: Gaetano Donizetti "What from Vengance;" Oscar Fox "The Hills of Home;" Samuel Charles Gaines, "Carillon of Kharkov;" Edvard Grieg, "Sunshine Song;" W.A. Mozart, "Goloria in Excelsis;" Paul Rodney, "Song of the Forge;" Oley Speaks, "Sylvia;" Max Spicker, "By Moonlight;" Johan Strauss, "Tales from the Vienna Woods;" Arthur Sullivan, "The Lost Chord;" Deems Taylor, "Wake Thee, Now, Dearest;" and Guiseppe Verdi, "Un di, se ben rammentomi."

Folder 2: One Hundred Folksongs of All Nations, 1911

Editor: Bantock

Folder 3: Carmen, 1879

Composer/Arranger: Bizet

Folder 4: Fifteen Vocalises for Soprano or Mezzo-Soprano, op. 12, 1894

Composer/Arranger: Concone

Folder 5: Fifty-eight Spirituals for Choral Use, 1924

Editor/Arranger: Dann/Loomis

Folder 6: Fifty Mastersongs by Twenty Composers, 1903

Editor: Finck

Folder 7: Faust and Gallia, 1906

Composer/Arranger: Gounod

Folder 8: Vocal Album Vol. 3, 1882

Composer/Arranger: Grieg

Folder 9: Album Leaves for the Young, op. 101, 1895

Composer/Arranger: Gurlitt

Folder 10: The Creation, undated

Composer/Editor: J. Haydn/Novell

Folder 11: Gems from the Opera Robin Hood, 1891

Composer/Arranger: De Koven

Box 2

Folder 1: Pagliacci (Punchinello), 1906

Composer/Arranger: Leoncavallo

Folder 2: Die Kunst der Kehlfertigkeit vol. 1, 1902

Composer/Editor: Lutgen/Spicker

Folder 3: Elijah, circa 1890

Composer/Arranger: Mendelssohn

Folder 4: Bastien and Bastienna, 1941

Composer/Editor: Mozart/Guenther

Folder 5: Tosca, 1899

Composer/Arranger: Puccini

Folder 6: In Sunshine and Shadow: Six Songs, 1905

Composer/Arranger: Ronald

Folder 7: Stabat Mater

Composer/Arranger: Rossini

Folder 8: Bride Elect, 1897

Composer/Arranger: Sousa

Folder 9: El Capitan, 1896

Composer/Arranger: Sousa

Folder 10: The Last Crusade, 1920

Composer/Arranger: Sousa

Folder 11: Sousa Songs, 1910

Composer/Arranger: Sousa

Box 3

Folder 1: Treize Poesies de Ronsard, 1897

Composer/Arranger: Spinetti

Folder 2: Aida, undated

Composer/Arranger: Verdi

Folder 3: Requiem, 1895

Composer/Arranger: Verdi

Folder 4: Rigoletto, 1895

Composer/Arranger: Verdi

Folder 5: Lohengrin, circa 1897

Composer/Arranger: Wagner

Folder 6: Siegfried, 1903

Composer/Arranger: Wagner/Klindworth

Folder 7: Bergerettes, ca. 1900

Composer/Arranger: Weckerlin

Folder 8: Treasury of Modern Song: 35 Songs for Soprano or Tenor, 1902

Editor: Baker

Box 4

Folder 1: American Patriotic Songs, 1893

Folder 2: Collection of Opera Excerpts, undated

Folder 3: Collection of Traditional and Patriotic Songs, ca. 1899

Folder 4: Catologue of Vocal Music, Part 1, 1929

Folder 5: Tindale Music Cabinet: Suggestions for Filing and Keeping Music by a New and improved Method, 1910

Sub-Series 2: Piano/Vocal Sheet Music Collection, 1859-1945

Consists of Piano/Vocal sheet music collected by, performed by, and dedicated to Root. Materials are arranged alphabetically by composer last name.

Box 5

Folder 1: A -- Composers, 1880-1933

Includes: Franz Abt, "Over the Stars There is Rest;" Stephen Adams, "The Holy City;" R.S. Ambrose, "One Sweetly Solemn Thought;" Addison F. Andrews, "Oh, For a Day of Spring" and "Estimation;" Harold Arlen, "Stormy Weather;" Thomas Arne, "Lass with the Delicate Air" and "Polly Willis;" and D.F.E. Auber "Laughing Song."

Folder 2: B -- Composers, 1888-1939

Includes: Ale Bachelet, "Chere Nuit;" Joseph Barnby, "Sweet and Low;" Floy Little Bartlett, "Sweet Little Woman O' Mine;" J.C. Bartlett, "Dreams;" Robert Batten, "April Morn" and "Come Unto Me Ye Weary;" Gustav Becker, "Lullaby;" Ludwig van Beethoven, "Adelaida" and "When Twilight Weaves;" A.H. Behrend, "Daddy;" Herman Bemberg, "Hindoo Song;" Andre Benoist, "Toujours;" Arthur Bergh, "I do not love thee, I adore" and "Silence;" Irving Berlin "God Bless America;" Georges Bizet, "Serenade;" James Bland, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny;" Carl Bohm, "Calm as the Night" and "Entreaty;" Edwin S. Brill "Ma Lady Lu;" Mary Helen Brown, "She Might Not Suit Your Fancy!;" J. Lewis Brown, "If Still I Have Your Love," "Elaine: The Troubadour's Song," "Killing Cupid," and "Marcelle!;" Dudley Buck, "Fear Not Ye, O Israel!;" and Georg Busse-Palma, "Strophen eines Verliebeten."

Folder 3: C -- Composers (1 of 2), 1870-1929

Includes: C.M. Cabussi, "The Fisherman;" Charles Wakefield Cadman, "At Dawning (I Love You)" and "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water;" Fabio Campana, "See the Pale Moon" and "Ma Lil Starlight;" Campbell-Tipton, "Crying of Water;" Hoagy Carmichael, "Star Dust;" John A. Carpenter, "The Heart's Country;" G.P. Centanini, "The Fickle Butterfly;" George Wakefield Chadwick, "Told in the Gate;" Cecile Chaminade, "Ritournelle;" William R. Chapman, "Thine Eyes" and "This Would I Do;" Gustave Charpentier, "Louise;" Arthur Claassen, "Mother O' Mine;" Herbert L. Clarke, "My Love for You;" F. Morris Class, "My Soul is Like a Garden Close;" George H. Clustam, "Ma Curly-Headed Babby[sic];" Eric Coates, "Gates of Spring;" Willem Coenen, "Come Unto Me;" S. Taylor Coleridge, "Life and Death;" Edith Cooke, "Two Marionettes;" Whitney Combs, "Her Rose;" F.P. Cortes, "Eperdument;" M. Cost "I Will Extol Thee O Lord;" T. Cottrau, "L'addio a Napoli;" Robert Coverley, "Russian Peasant's Lullaby;" Frederic H. Cowen, "The Mission of a Rose;" Eugene Cowles, "Don't You Mind the Sparrows" and "Forgotten;" Octave Cremieux, "La Valse D'Amour;" Jas. W. Crooks, "Without a City Wall;" and F.W.N. Crouch, "Kathleen Mavourneen."

Folder 4: C -- Composers (2 of 2), 1870-1929

Includes: C.M. Cabussi, "The Fisherman;" Charles Wakefield Cadman, "At Dawning (I Love You)" and "From the Land of the Sky-Blue Water;" Fabio Campana, "See the Pale Moon" and "Ma Lil Starlight;" Campbell-Tipton, "Crying of Water;" Hoagy Carmichael, "Star Dust;" John A. Carpenter, "The Heart's Country;" G.P. Centanini, "The Fickle Butterfly;" George Wakefield Chadwick, "Told in the Gate;" Cecile Chaminade, "Ritournelle;" William R. Chapman, "Thine Eyes" and "This Would I Do;" Gustave Charpentier, "Louise;" Arthur Claassen, "Mother O' Mine;" Herbert L. Clarke, "My Love for You;" F. Morris Class, "My Soul is Like a Garden Close;" George H. Clustam, "Ma Curly-Headed Babby[sic];" Eric Coates, "Gates of Spring;" Willem Coenen, "Come Unto Me;" S. Taylor Coleridge, "Life and Death;" Edith Cooke, "Two Marionettes;" Whitney Combs, "Her Rose;" F.P. Cortes, "Eperdument;" M. Cost "I Will Extol Thee O Lord;" T. Cottrau, "L'addio a Napoli;" Robert Coverley, "Russian Peasant's Lullaby;" Frederic H. Cowen, "The Mission of a Rose;" Eugene Cowles, "Don't You Mind the Sparrows" and "Forgotten;" Octave Cremieux, "La Valse D'Amour;" Jas. W. Crooks, "Without a City Wall;" and F.W.N. Crouch, "Kathleen Mavourneen."

Folder 5: D -- Composers, 1894-1926

Includes: Claude Debussy, "Harmonie du Soir;" Leo Delibes, "Lakme;" Teresa Del Riego, "Le Baiser D'ete;" John Densmore, "All to Myself;" Luigi Denza, "The Sweetest Song" and "A May Morning;" William Dichmont, "Such a Lil' Fellow;" Stanley Dickson, "Thanks be to God;" and Theodore Dubois, "Musiques sur l'Eau."

Folder 6: E -- Composers, 1902

Includes: Edward Elgar, "In the Dawn."

Box 6

Folder 1: F -- Composers, ca. 1880-1917

Includes: Jean-Baptiste Faure, "Asleep in Jesus," "Les Rameau," and "Sancta Maria;" Friedrich von Flotow, "Spinning Wheel Quartet;" Arthur Foote, "Lilac Time;" Adolph M. Foerster, collections; Stephen Foster, "Folk Songs" and "My Old Kentucky Home;" Robert Franz, "In Herbst;" M. Douglas Fraser, "Good Night;" and Rudolf Friml, "Giannina Mia" and "When the Maid Comes Knocking at Your Heart."

Folder 2: G -- Composers, 1866-1914

Includes: Samuel Richard Gaines, "Blest Be Thou, Oh Christ Eternal;" Alfred Gatty, "O Fair Dove, O Fond Dove;" A.R. Gaul, "These Are They Which Came;" Jessie Gaynor, "The Slumber Boat;" Edward German, "Waltz Song fom Merrie England" and "Waltz Song from Tom Jones;" J.L. Gilbert, "Bonnie Sweet Bessie;" Hallett Gilberte, "Song of the Canoe;" A.C. Gomes, "Ballata;" Charles Gounod, "Easter Eve," "Ballata and Aria from Faust," "Faites-lui Mes Aveux," "Le Parlate d'Amour," "Quando a Te Lieta from Faust," "Entreat Me Not to Leave Thee," "Jerusalem," "Non Destarmi from Romeo e Guilietta," "Inspirez-moir from La Reine de Saba," "Repentir/Pace Domine/O,Divine Redeemer," and "Le Calvaire;" F. Emil Gramm, "Ecstasy," "The Outcast," and "Sweetheart;" Granz Gruber, "In der Christnacht;" and Prince Gustave of Sweden, "Plus d'Amour, Plus de Roses!"

Folder 3: H -- Composers, 1894-1935

Includes: Frederick Hagar, "Laughing Water;" Carl Hahn, "Tis All That I Can Say;" William Hammond, "Sleepy Lan';" Guy d'Hardelot, "Bee's Courtship," "Invocation," "Say Yes," "Summer Song," and "Three Green Bonnets;" Charles Harris, "Nobody Knows, Nobody Cares;" Frank Hastings, "A Red, Red Rose;" C.B. Hawley, "All the Leavers WEre Calling Me," "Because I Love You Dear," and "On a Moonbeam;" R. Heber and R. Whateley, "God That Madest Earth and Heaven;" Anton Heidl, "A Song of Yesterday;" Victor Herbert, "Italian Street Song;" Eugen Hildach, "Abschied der Vogel;" Alfred Hill, "Home Little Maori, Home" and "Waiata Poi;" Real Hines and Henri Woode, "Rosetta;" Al Hoffman, "Auf Wiedersehen, My Dear;" Sidney Homer, "Dearest;" W.A. Howland, "I Love My Jean;" and Bruno Huhn, "Day Dream," "The Grand March," "If," and "Sun of My Soul."

Folder 4: J -- Composers, 1897-1916

Includes: Adolf Jensen, "Tango Vos, El Mi Pandero;" Albert Johns, "Honey Lamb;" Herbert Johnson, "Face to Face," "The New World," and "Absence;" and Jack Judge and Henry Williams, "It's a Long, Long Way to Tipperary."

Folder 5: K -- Composers, 1891-1933

Includes: Kailimai, "On the Beach at Waikiki;" Jerome Kern, "When Your Heart's on Fire Smoke Gets in Your Eyes;" Reginald de Koven, "For This!," "Little Boy Blue," "Nita Gitana," "Oh Promise Me," and "Serenade Creole;" Fritz Kreisler, "Bonnie Earl o Moray;" Clare Kummer, "Dearie."

Folder 6: L -- Composers, 1886-1911

Includes: Frank Lambert, "Deep in My Heart;" Liza Lehmann, "Cuckoo" and "If No One Ever Marries Me;" Xavier Leroux, "Le Nil;" Samuel Liddle, "Abide with Me" and "Mother O Mine;" Franz Liszt, "Thou'rt Like a Flower;" Hermann Lohr, "Little Grey Home in the West;" Gustav Luders, "Message fo the Violet;" Luigi Luzzi, "Ave Maria;" and Frank Lynes, "Question" and "Sweetheart."

Box 7

Folder 1: M -- Composers, 1859-1930

Includes: James MacDermid, "He Sent His Word," "House O Dream," and "I Call to Mind a Day;" Alexander MacFadyen, "Seasons" and "Sring's Singing;" Adrew Mack, "Story of the Rose;" Charles Fonteyn Manney, "I'm Wantin' You Jean!;" Kathleen Lockhart Manning, "In the Luxembourg Gardens;" Pietro Mascagni, "Ave Maria;" Theo Marzials, "Leaving, Yet Loving" and "Tickenham Ferry;" Jules Massenet, "Then Weep! O Grief-worn Eyes!," "Esclarmonde," and "Herodiade;" Alexander Matthews, "Three Idyls from Arcady;" Tito Mattei, "For the Sake of the Past;" Felix Mendelssohn, "I Would That My Love;" Giacomo Meyerbeer, "Sleep My Love;" Andre Messager, "Long Ago in Alcala;" M.T.H. Middlemoore, "Apart from Thee," "Basque Song," "Flower of Hope," "How Beautiful Thou Art," "Little Macarena," "Say Not Farewell," and "Song of Love;" Marry Carr Moore, "Japanese Night Song" and "Midsummer;" P.K. Moran, "Robin Adair;" Herndon Morsell, "Consider the Lilies," "Eternal Life," "I Heard a Sound of Voices," and "Jesus, Lover of My Soul;" Modest Moussorgsky, "Hopak;" W.A. Mozart, "Sweet Zephyr;" and John W. Mullen, "Afterwards."

Folder 2: N -- Composers, ca. 1880-1901

Includes: W.H. Neidlinger, "The Birthday of a King;" Sydney Nelson, "Mary of Argyle;" Ethelbert Nevin, "Mighty Lak' a Rose," "Oh That We Two Were Maying," and "One Spring Morning;" Ray Noble, "In the Gloaming by the Fireside;" and Frederick Norton, "Madcap Marjorie."

Folder 3: O -- Composers, ca. 1880-1921

Includes: Margaret Lewis Orde "Hurrah! American Legion;" and G.A. Osborne, "Who's at My Window?"

Folder 4: P -- Composers, 1899-1936

Includes: Henry Parker, "Jerusalem;" Horatio Parker, "The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest;" Al Piantadosi, "The Curse of an Aching Heart;" Eugenio Pirani, "Jenny and Jockey;" Cole Porter, "I've Got You Under My Skin" and "Night and Day;" and Giacomo Puccini, "As Thro the Street (Musetta's Waltz)," "Every Flower (duet for Butterfly and Suzuki)," and "Un Bel Di Vedremo."

Folder 5: R -- Composers, ca. 1880-1945

Includes: Adolph Reichel, "If Always the Moon But Shone;" Richard Rodgers, "If I Loved You;" Paul Rodney, "Cavalry;" Jame Rogers, "Love Has Wings;" Caro Roma, "The Jewels;" Landon Ronald, "A Cycle of Life" and "The Rosy Morn;" Lutie McKee Rose, "My Mothers Songs;" Giacomo Rossini, "There's a Voice That I Enshrine (Barber of Seville);" Anton Rubinstein, "Sang des Vogelein;" and James Russell, "Where the River Shannon Flows."

Folder 6: S -- Composers (1 of 3), 1900-1915

Includes: Camille Saint-Saens, "My Heart to Hear Thy Voice;" Mary Turner Salter, "Little Boy, Good Night" and "Proposal;" Franz Schubert, "Last Greeting;" Hans Schmidt, "Im Volkston;" C. Linn Seiler, "April," "Burst of Melody," and "Shamrock;" Narciso Serradell, "La Golondrina;" Lao Silesu, "A Little Love, A Little Kiss;" Alice Mary Smith, O That We Two Were Maying;" Warren Storey Smith, "Song of Night;" and W.Th. Soderberg, "Fagelns Visa."

Folder 7: S -- Composers (2 of 3), 1898-1931

Includes: John Philip Sousa, "Annabelle Lee," "The Belle of Bayou Teche," "The Snow Baby (from the Bride Elect)," "The Philosophic Maid (from the Charlatan)," "Will You Love When the Lilies Are Dead (from The Charlatan)," "The Carrier Pigeon (from The Free Lance)," "The Goose Girl (from the Free Lance)," "The Crystal Lute (from The Glass Blowers)," "Hey Dolly, The Milkmaid's Song," "In Flanders Fields the Poppies Grow," and "The Lily Bells;" A. Spaeth, "Thro the Fields Mid Flow'rets;" and Oley Speaks, "Bend Low, O Dusky Night" and "In May Time."

Box 8

Folder 1: S -- Composers (3 of 3), 1867-1915

Includes: Th. Spiering, "Around Thy Window;" J.E. Spilman, "Flow Gently, Sweet Afton;" Charles Gilbert Spross, "Day is Done," "Lindy," "Nourah," and "Will o the Wisp;" G. Waring Stebins, "When Love is Gone;" Leo Stern, "Soupir;" Stradella, "Pieta Signore;" Johann Strauss, "Voci di Primavera;" Richard Strauss, "A Mother's Dallying," "Saying is Not Doing," "To My Baby," amd Wiegenliedchen;" Arthur Stringer, "Six Songs After the Irish," "Sleep and Death," and "O Come With Me In the Summer Night;" and Arthur Sullivan, "Lost Chord."

Folder 2: T -- Composers, 1869-1915

Includes: Hope Temple, "My Lady's Bower;" Fay Templeton, "I Want Yer Ma Honey;" William Armour Thayer, "A Scotch Love Song;" A. Goring Thomas, "A Memory;" Ambroise Thomas, "Je Suis Titania;" A. Emil Titl, "So Oft as Thro the Valley;" F. Paolo Tosti, "Beauty's Eyes," "Good Bye!," "Mattinata," "My Dreams," "Ninon," "Non M'a Ma Piu," and "Serenade;" Berthold Tours, "New Kingdom;" and Blanche B. Treat, "Roses Are Blooming For You."

Folder 3: U -- Composers, 1899

Includes: Lyn Udall, "Stay In Your Own Backyard."

Folder 4: V -- Composers, 1898-1911

Includes: J. Valverde, "Clavelitos;" Giuseppe Verdi, "Fu La Sorte Dell' Armi," "Pace, Pace, Mio Dio," and "Te sol, te sol quest anima;" Paul Vidal, "Were I Sunbeam, I Would Fly;" and Jan Vieu, "Pour Mieux t'Aimer."

Folder 5: W -- Composers, 1892-1915

Includes: Richard Wagner, "Traume;" D. Glenhom Walker, "Those Eyes;" Richard Henry Walthew, "It Was a Lover and His Lass;" Harriet Ware, "The Boat Song," "The Call of Radha," "The Cross," "Hindu Slumber Song," "How Do I Love Thee?," and "'Tis Spring;" Jean Baptiste Weckerlin, "Conseils a Nina;" John Barnes Wells, "Crow's Egg" and "The Owl;" Benjamin Whelpley, "Dinna Ask Me;" Clares Willeby, "Crossing the Bar," "I Know," "Lilac Time," "Love's Whisper," "The Perfect Way," and "The Ribbon, the Ring and the Rose;" Henry Lane Wilson, "Phillis Has Such Charming Graces;" Haydn Wood, "Roses of Picardy;" Amy Woodforde-Finden, "Light of Mine Eyes;" R. Huntington Woodman, "A Birthday" and "The Path of Dreams;" Alfred Wooler, "A Many Years Ago;"  and Ellen Wright, "Violets."

Folder 6: Y -- Composers, 1904

Includes: Walter S. Young, "Thy Parting Kiss."

Folder 7: Songs without Words, vol. I, 1893

Composer/Arranger: Mendelssohn

Folder 8: Piano Scores, 1911-1917

Includes: J. Pischna, 60 Exercises Progressifs; John Philip Sousa, "The Gliding Girl," "The Naval Reserve March," and "The Willow Blossoms;" and Mrs. A.M. Virgil, "Prelude."

Composer/Arranger: Sousa

Series 2: Memorabilia, ca. 1847-1939

Consists of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, photographs, concert programs, and correspondence, documenting Root's Career. Materials are arranged alphabetically by topic.

Box 9

Folder 1: Concert Programs (1 of 3), 1905-1908

Composer/Arranger: Mendelssohn

Folder 2: Concert Programs (2 of 3), 1908-1937

Composer/Arranger: Mendelssohn

Folder 3: Concert Programs (3 of 3) -- Maine Music Festival, 1905

Folder 4: Correspondence, ca. 1908-1927

Folder 5: Journals (1 of 3) -- The Mentor, January, 1923

Folder 6: Journals (2 of 3) -- Pittsburgh Auto/Truck Expo, February, 1912

Folder 7: Journals (3 of 3) -- Musical America, Musical Courier, Pittsburgh Bulletin, October, 1905 - December, 1912

Box 10

Folder 1: News Clippings, 1905-1939

Folder 2: Photographs, ca. 1902-1907

Folder 3: Small Scrapbook, ca. 1847-1902

Folder 4: Large Scrapbook, ca. 1900-1907