In 19th Century America, the comic subject of
animals portrayed in human situations was quite popular in various forms
of art. We have gathered a colorful classic collection of scans of such sheet music, many with
hilarious cover art and lyrics, in PDF format.
Music about animals
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A collection of unique and interesting scans of early American books and booklets on various subjects.
The Book Collection
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 Some of the oddest pieces of music with the strangest names, ever published, happened in early America. In fact, it seemed to have a popular thing to come up with weird titles, subject and at times lyrics. We have created a PDF collection of many of these pieces of music using scans of the original sheet music. The PDF is prepared for easy printing in black and white on standard size paper.
Strange, Odd, Funny &
Weird Music Page
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Masonic Music In 19th Century
America
 In 19th Century America, the
Freemasons were busy publishing all kinds of
music related to their organization... instrumental, choral, songs, you name it.
19th Century American
Masonic Music
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Unusual, Amazing, Magical,Wonderful
& Often Unxplainable Events
In Early America
From Original Newspaper
& Periodical Articles
Early American X-Files Page
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Projects using music & sound from
old publications
 This is a 60 page book containing simple parlour magic tricks using music and sound, many simple projects using music and sound, and even a section about learning ventriloquism and instructions how to build an "aeolian harp". We gathered these interesting projects from old books, published in the 19th century. We have prepared this as a PDF file, for easy printing on standard size paper.
Music Magic Page
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– Available for Everyone's Pleasure –
Now my friends please meet Sir William and follow him as he romps through some of the many mysterious initiations held in secret societies. Next get ready for the ride, and read the witty true tales and laugh at the vintage humor that has been collected from numerous publications from the days of old, all of which were written and recorded by the Brotherhood’s themselves.
“Sir William
the
Masonic Lodge Goat”
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Unusual Magic Patents
 A large collection of patents for magic, illusion, trick devices etc. (with construction details) from early America. Scans of the
original patents prepared for easy printing, in
a PDF file.
After your credit card or Paypal
payment of $5.00 is processed,
you will quickly be sent a download link.
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Fiddlin' Around
On The Way To A Revolution
 In Colonial America, folk music, especially fiddle music and folk dancing was a very popular form of entertainment. In fact, both Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry were fiddlers and as you can see from the references on the page linked below, both were involved with performances at festivals and social events in their younger days.
We have prepared 4 PDF notaton collections and 1 MP3 collection of early American tunes...
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Music Composed by Nobody
 In 19th Century America, a fact that is not widely known is that thousands of pieces of sheet music were published. Music on every conceivable subject from the hippopotamus to free-love was published.
Strangely enough, one of the very popular things to do was to publish sheet music using fake, often comic names.
We have gathered together a few of these pieces of music and created a PDF book out of them.
Music Composed by Nobody page
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Read the Welcome tale....
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No
kidding, this page has music composed for
the infamous
Illuminati
conspiracy,
by one of the original members of that famous organization,
including.....
"The Illuminati Anthem".
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Before television and radio, home performances of amateur music, plays, magic tricks and conjuring etc. was popular. It was often referred to as "parlour" performances. We have prepared scans of some of the original "parlour" conjuring, magic and tricks books in easy to print black and white PDF format.
The Art Of Conjuring & Magic Page
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Sisters and friends, journey with me and get ready to behold the many interesting, beautiful and amusing illustrations, pictures and photos of both real and imaginary people and places.  Scroll through and read the collection of wonder- tales, folklore and fables and laugh at the humor presented to you while you catch up on some of the past of your own amazing sisterhood.
“Sisters In Secret Societies”
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5 collections related to apples, apple cider and autumn
Poetry and prose, traditional apple and autumn tunes, 19th Century American sheet music
and traditional Halloween tunes.
The Apple Cider Page
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The music of luck and laughter....
We have created a PDF collection of traditional tunes related to luck and laughter...
The tunes are presented in a basic arrangement with guitar chords and a keyboard (or harp) accompaniment. You can use these basic arrangements to create your own versions....
The Happy Go Lucky Tunes page
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The People's Conspiracy™
is the public division of
The International War Against Stupidity™*
Learn about both on the following page:
The People's Conspiracy Page
On the page you can listen to and download music by the famous...
People's Conspiracy Jug Band |
George Washington's
Favorite Song?
"The Derby Ram" song has been known since at least the beginning of the eighteenth century. The ram has even been incorporated into thecoat-of-arms of Derby, England. 
The song and the association of a ram with the town of Derby as a ballad made it's public bow in child lore in The Only True Mother Goose Melodies, c1843, and has been repeated in nursery books many times since then.
This ballad about one of the most elaborate lies ever told is said to have been the favorite song of "he who never lied", George Washington.
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This unique music project, that you are about to experience, involves my using a solar cell array to transform light waves to sound waves to audio.
The music you will be hearing is the improvised
results of the movement and intensity of
the light sources and color filtering.
Light To Sound Page
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| Hannah's Song
The art & music of
Hannah Cohoon
Hannah
Cohoon is the most famous of the many artists
from the mystical Shaker communities in 19th
Century America. What is not widely known is
that she also composed interesting songs .
Hannah's
Song
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The Halloween Tunes
 A collection of traditional tunes related to Halloween, arranged with guitar chords and a basic harp (or keyboard) backup, that you can use as a basis for creating your own improvisations and arrangements.
The Halloween Tunes
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Comic Almanacs and funny and entertaining writing of all kinds was quite popular in early America. We have created five PDF examples of scanned booklets, prepared for easy printing in black and white.
Comic writings page
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