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Guide to the Mick Moloney Irish-American Music and Popular Culture Papers AIA.031.003

Series IV: Song and Music Collecting, 1867-2000, inclusive

Extent

2 boxes

Scope and Content Note

Series IV: Song and Music Collecting, 1867-2000 contains lyrics, tunes, and songs in published and manuscript form collected by Dr. Moloney for research, personal, and performance use. Of particular note are John Ward's Private Collection of Irish Comic Songs, twenty photocopied songsters, and manuscripts of dance tunes, some of which are Moloney's compositions.

Articles: Songs, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Articles: Songwriting, 1916, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Broadsides, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Broadsides: Cork Songmakers Club, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Choral Music: Louisville Chorus, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Comics: Book of Ballads and Sagas, 1995-1996, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dance Books: "Good Morning" Music, Calls, and Directions for Old-Time Dancing, 1943, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Dance Books: Untitled- Excerpt, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lyrics: Collections, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lyrics: Manuscripts (Folder 1), undated

Box: 23, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Lyrics: Manuscripts (Folder 2), undated

Box: 23, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reciter: Erin's Own Reciter, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Reciter: Irish Dialect Poems and Recitations, 1899, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: 51 Lucky Irish Classics, 1982, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Best Music Hall and Variety Songs (excerpts), 1972, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Flashes of Merriment: A Century of Humorous Songs in America, 1805-1905, 1971, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Folksongs and Ballads Popular in Ireland, 1980, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Foster Songs, 1942, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Hansen's Irish Songbook, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Irish Folksinger's Album, circa 1957, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Irish Ireland Songbook, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Irish Tavern Folio of Humor Songs, 1964, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Irish Woman's Songbook, 1986, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Penny Buns and Roses, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Rubank Holiday Collection, 1932, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Sing Song Sing-a-Long, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Tommy Sands Songbook, 1989, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: New Song Fest, 1959, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Songs of Kiwanis, 1927, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Treasure Chest of Irish Songs Jigs and Reels, 1943, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: Untitled, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: John Ward's Collection of Irish Comic Songs, 1947, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songbooks: John Ward's Private Collection of Irish Comic Songs, 1943, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Song Catalogs: Irish Industries Depot, Inc., undated

Box: 23, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Song Collecting: Correspondence, 1977-2000, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Song Collecting: General, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Song Collectors: Tom Heddeman, circa 1900, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Song Collectors: Dee Hicks, 1977, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Song Collectors: "O'Donnell's Collection", 1976, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Song Ideas, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Song Index: Peter Cassidy, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Song Index: Peter Kennedy, 1975, inclusive

Box: 23, Folder: 42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: Civil War (Folder 1), undated

Box: 23, Folder: 43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: Civil War (Folder 2), undated

Box: 23, Folder: 44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: Declan Forde, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: General: A-C, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: General: D-F, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: General: G-J, undated

Box: 23, Folder: 48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: General: L-N, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: General: 0-S, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: General: T-Y, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: Liner Notes- Archie Fisher, 1976, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: Liner Notes- Ireland: The Final Struggle, 1977, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: Liner Notes- Bill Staines, 1979, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: Ohio Canals, 1952-1992, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: Joe Reary, 1985, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs: Scores- Manuscripts, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songs to Learn, 1988, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: A Bit O' Blarney, 1903, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Early Ballads in Ireland: 1968-1985, 1985, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 12 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Favorite Old Irish Songs, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 13 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Irish Songs and Ballads, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 14 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: My Father Soul'd Charcoal Songster, 1870, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 15 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: New City Songsters, 1969-1971, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 16 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Old-Time Song and Ballads of Ireland, 1901, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 17 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Harry Osborne and Fanny Wentworth's Irish Comedian, 1878, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 18 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Paddy's the Boy Songster, 1867, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 19 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Johnny Patterson's Great Inter-Ocean Circus Songster, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 20 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Johnny Patterson's Great London Circus Singers, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 21 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Prize Song Book, 1893, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 22 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Pat Reilly's McGrogan the Cop, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 23 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: St. Patrick's Day Songster, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 24 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Songs of Glen na Mona, 1952, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 25 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Universal Irish Song Book (Folder 1), 1890, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 26 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Universal Irish Song Book (Folder 2), 1890, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Universal Irish Song Book (Folder 3), 1890, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Untitled, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Wehman Brothers' Pocket-Sized Irish Song Book No. 1, 1909, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Songsters: Various- Excerpts, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tunebooks: Harding's Collection of 100 Jigs and Reels, 1896, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tunebooks: Treasure Chest of Dances Old and New, 1937, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tunes: Manuscripts, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tunes: Manuscripts- Tommy Caulfield, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tunes: Manuscripts- Selected and Arranged by Eugene O'Donnell, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tunes: Moloney Compositions, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tunes: Printed Scores, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Tunes: Sheet Music, undated

Box: 24, Folder: 39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Voice of the People: Songs and History of Ireland (excerpts), 1982, inclusive

Box: 24, Folder: 40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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