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Princeton Music Collection, 1849-2009 (bulk 1894-1941): Finding Aid
AC056
Taken from a songbook entitled 'Reception and smoker in honor of Woodrow Wilson', 1913
65 Olden Street
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA
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Fax: 609-258-3385
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Published in 1999
©2006 Princeton University Library
Summary Information
- Collector:
- Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
- Title and dates:
- Princeton Music Collection, 1849-2009 (bulk 1894-1941)
- Abstract:
- This collection contains various songbooks printed for Princeton University including bound volumes and small booklets. Among the former is a nearly complete series of the Carmina Princetonia. There is also a second series dedicated to sheet music comprising various songs written for Princeton University, including many pieces written by alumni.
- Size:
- 3.95 linear feet (8 archival boxes, 1 half-size box, and 3 oversize boxes)
- Call number:
- AC056
- Location:
- Princeton University Library. Department of Rare Books and Special
Collections.
Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library.
Princeton University Archives.
Princeton, New Jersey 08540 USA - Language(s) of material:
- English.
- Storage note:
- This collection is stored onsite at the Mudd Manuscript Library.
Description
This is a comprehensive collection of songs written about Princeton University including traditional songs such as "Old Nassau," "The Princeton Cannon Song," and "The Triple Cheer."
These and other songs have been published collectively as well as individually between 1849 and 1982.
A substantial part of this corpus is a chronological collection of the Carmina Princetonia from its first publication in 1869 until its centennial anniversary in 1969, with only the twelfth and twentieth editions missing. This songbook is the single largest compilation of Princeton songs sung by students and alumni over the years and was frequently updated and revised.
Other songbooks include a series of Campus/Class booklets roughly 3" x 2" in size with some variations. Students have used these for senior step-singing and at annual reunions. The time frame covered is 1854 to 1982, and all contain traditional songs such as "Old Nassau," along with several popular songs from each year and at times the class song.
There are also a number of special editions of "Old Nassau" containing several arrangements of the song, as well as an autobiography by the composer Karl Langlotz and a biography of the lyricist Harlan P. Peck printed between 1905 and 1906. The presentation edition was autographed by Langlotz.
In addition to a number of miscellaneous songbooks and songs with Princeton as their theme, the Princeton Music Collection includes five collegiate songbooks immortalizing a variety of colleges.
The final component of the collection is a series of sheet music consisting for the most part of spirit, football, and reunion songs. The sheet music includes autographed pieces by alumnus Kenneth S. Clark, Class of 1907 ("What Do We Want? Touchdown" and "Princeton Forward March"), J. F. Hewitt, Class of 1907 ("Come, Ye Men of Princeton"), Arthur H. Osborn, Class of 1907 ("The Princeton Cannon Song"), and Harold Nason, Class of 1898 ("Orange and Black March"). There is also a limited numbered edition of "Old Nassau" signed by Karl Langlotz.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into two series. The first contains songbooks, beginning with deluxe editions of Princeton University's most beloved song, "Old Nassau." The songbooks are broken down by genre and are arranged chronologically within each grouping. Bringing up the rear are a number of individual songs, including class odes from the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The second series is composed of sheet music and is arranged alphabetically by title.
Access and Use
Access
Collection is open for research use.
Restrictions on Use and Copyright Information
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. Permission to publish material from the collection must be requested from the University Archivist. Copyright is held by the Trustees of Princeton University.
Acquisition and Appraisal
Provenance and Acquisition
Alumni and their families donated a large portion of the collection to the University.
Processing and Other Information
Processing Information
This collection was processed by Liza Gijanto with the help and supervision of John S. Weeren between January and March of 1999. Finding aid written by Liza Gijanto in 1999, John S. Weeren in January and March of 1999.
Descriptive Rules Used
Finding aid content adheres to that prescribed by Describing Archives: A Content Standard.
Encoding
Machine-readable finding aid encoded in EAD 2002 by Techbooks and Cristela García-Spitz on December 23, 2006.
Finding aid written in English.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Princeton Music Collection, Box and Folder Number; University Archives, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.
Subject Headings
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Contents List
Songbooks
“Old Nassau” Presentation edition, 1905
Box 1, Folder 1 “Old Nassau” Presentation edition, 1905
(autographed title page only)
Box 1, Folder 2 “Old Nassau” 1st edition, 1905
Box 1, Folder 3 “Old Nassau” 3rd edition, 1906
Box 1, Folder 4 “Old Nassau” 3rd edition, 1906
(includes transcription of poem by Harlan Page Peck)
Box 1, Folder 5 “Old Nassau” 3rd edition, 1906
(Class of 1901 Decennial Reunion copy)
Box 1, Folder 6 “Old Nassau”, 1947
(presentation of the Karl Langlotz Memorial)
Box 1, Folder 7 Carmina Princetonia, 1869
Box 1, Folder 8 Carmina Princetonia, 1873
Box 1, Folder 9 Carmina Princetonia, 1876
Box 1, Folder 10 Carmina Princetonia 4th edition, 1879
Box 1, Folder 11 Carmina Princetonia 5th edition, 1882
Box 2, Folder 1 Carmina Princetonia 6th edition, 1887
Box 2, Folder 2 Carmina Princetonia 7th edition, 1890
Box 2, Folder 3 Carmina Princetonia 7th edition , 1890
(contains letters about another edition and notes on certain songs)
Box 2, Folder 4 Carmina Princetonia 8th edition, 1894
Box 2, Folder 5 Carmina Princetonia 8th edition, 1894
(supplementary copy)
Box 2, Folder 6 Carmina Princetonia 9th edition, 1900
Box 2, Folder 7 Carmina Princetonia 10th edition, 1902
Box 2, Folder 8 Carmina Princetonia 11th edition, 1905
Box 2, Folder 9 Carmina Princetonia 13th edition, 1907
Box 3, Folder 1 Carmina Princetonia 14th edition, 1910
Box 3, Folder 2 Carmina Princetonia 15th edition, 1912
Box 3, Folder 3 Carmina Princetonia 16th edition, 1914
Box 3, Folder 4 Carmina Princetonia 17th edition, 1915
Box 3, Folder 5 Carmina Princetonia 18th edition, undated
Box 3, Folder 6 Carmina Princetonia 19th edition, 1923
Box 3, Folder 7 Carmina Princetonia 21st edition, 1927
Box 4, Folder 1 Carmina Princetonia 23rd issue, 1927
Box 4, Folder 2 Carmina Princetonia 24th issue, undated
Box 4, Folder 3 Carmina Princetonia 25th issue, 1940
Box 4, Folder 4 Carmina Princetonia Centennial edition, 1969
Box 4, Folder 5 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1854-1886
Box 4, Folder 6 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1888-1890
Box 4, Folder 7 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1891-1895
Box 4, Folder 8 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1896-1899
Box 5, Folder 1 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1900-1904
Box 5, Folder 2 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1905-1909
Box 5, Folder 3 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1910-1914
Box 5, Folder 4 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1915-1916
Box 5, Folder 5 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1919-1924
Box 5, Folder 6 Campus/Class Songbook, 1925-1929
Box 5, Folder 7 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1930-1934
Box 6, Folder 1 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1935-1939
Box 6, Folder 2 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1941, 1942, 1945
Box 6, Folder 3 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1948, 1952, 1955-1957
Box 6, Folder 4 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1960, 1963-1965
Box 6, Folder 5 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1966-1970
Box 7, Folder 1 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1971-1974
Box 7, Folder 2 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1975-1978
Box 7, Folder 3 Campus/Class Songbooks, 1979-1982
Box 7, Folder 4 Football Songbooks, 1895, 1905, 1911
Box 7, Folder 5 Princeton Songbooks: Songs of Old Nassau, 1859
Box 7, Folder 6 Princeton Songbooks: Songs of Princeton, 1886
Box 7, Folder 7 Princeton Songbooks: Princeton Songs, 1903
Box 7, Folder 8 Princeton Songbooks: Songbook, 1913
(reception and smoker in honor of Woodrow Wilson '79)
Box 7, Folder 9 Princeton Songbooks: Carmina Nassouria, 1936
Box 8, Folder 1 Princeton Songbooks: Princeton Dinner Songs, undated
Box 8, Folder 2 Princeton Songbooks: Princeton Songs, undated
Box 8, Folder 3 Princeton Songbooks: A Nostalgic Song Sheet, undated
Box 8, Folder 4 Princeton Songbooks: Songs of Princeton (Louis Irving Reichner, Class of 1894), undated
Box 8, Folder 5 College Songbooks, 1868
Box 8, Folder 6 College Songbooks, 1876
Box 8, Folder 7 College Songbooks, 1877
Box 8, Folder 8 College Songbooks, 1890
Box 9, Folder 1 College Songbooks, 1897
Box 9, Folder 2 Class Odes, 1871, 1872, 1875, 1879, 1883, 1884, 1886, 1888
Box 9, Folder 3 Miscellaneous Songs, 1906, 1922, undated
Box 9, Folder 4 Freshman Step Sing, 2007, 2009
Box 9, Folder 5 Sheet Music
“Academic Festival Overture”, 1896
Box 10 “Back Again”, 1910
Box 10 “Back Every Year”, undated
Box 10 “The Battle Song of Princeton”, 1907
Box 10 “The Bulldog Dirge”, 1924
Box 10 “The Championship Song of Princeton”, 1909
Box 10 “College National Hymn”, 1896
Box 10 “Come Take a Walk on Nassau Street: A Princeton Reunion Song”, 1914
Box 10 “Come Ye Men of Princeton”, 1940
Box 10 “Decennial March”, 1898
(Class of 1888)
Box 10 “The '44 Song”, 1940
Box 10 “Going Back to Nassau Hall”, 1910, undated
(includes alternate to refrain)
Box 10 “Good-bye Yale”, 1923
Box 10 “The Guard of Old Nassau: A Princeton Song-March”, 1907
Box 10 “Here Comes That Tiger”, 1950
Box 10 “Here Comes The Tiger! A Princeton Song”, 1913
Box 10 “Immortals, We Salute You”, 1948
Box 10 “It's Reunion Time in Princeton”, 1941
Box 10 “Just For Princeton”, 1897
Box 10 “Just the Same”, 1914
Box 10 “Lift Your Glass”, 1971
Box 10 “The March of The Tigers”, undated
Box 10 “Old Nassau”, 1905
(autographed by Carl Langlotz)
Box 10 “Old Nassau Waltzes”, 1897
Box 10 “Once Again for Old Nassau”, 1906
Box 10 “Orange and Black March”, 1901
Box 10 “Orange and Black March and Two Step”, 1897
Box 10 “Oranje Boven”, undated
(missing)
Box 10 “Our First Fiftieth”, 1975
(Class of 1925)
Box 10 “The Princeton Band”, 1954
Box 10 “The Princeton Cannon Song”, 1934
Box 10 “The Princeton Cannon Song-March”, 1906
Box 10 “Princeton Cheer Song”, 1908
Box 11 “The Princeton Club Two-Step March”, 1896
Box 11 “Princeton Forever”, 1941
Box 11 “Princeton Forward March”, 1914
Box 11 “The Princeton Freshman March”, 1913
Box 11 “The Princeton Grand March”, undated
(Francis Johnson)
Box 11 “The Princeton Grand March”, undated
(J. Wieland)
Box 11 “The Princeton Jungle March”, 1905
Box 11 “Princeton on P-rade”, 1962
Box 11 “Princeton Schottische”, 1896
Box 11 “Princeton Schottische”, 1896
(sample copy)
Box 11 “Princeton Spirit: March Song”, 1907
Box 11 “Princeton, That's All”, 1911
Box 11 “A Princeton Tiger March-Two-Step”, 1902
Box 11 “The Princeton Two-Step”, undated
Box 11 “The Princeton University March and Two-Step”, 1896
Box 11 “The Princeton Victory Song”, undated
Box 11 “Princeton Waltz for Piano Forte”, 1910
Box 11 “Princeton Waltzes”, 1849
Box 11 “Princeton Waltzes”, 1892
Box 11 “Sons of Nassau”, undated
Box 11 “The Team From Tigertown”, 1968
Box 11 “There's a New Look to the Tiger”, 1970
Box 11 “Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger!)”, 1995
Box 11 “Tiger Rag (Hold That Tiger!)”, undated
Box 11 “The Tiger Team”, 1910
Box 11 “Tiger Touchdown”, 1907
Box 11 “The Tigers”, 1904
Box 12 “Tigertown Blues”, undated
Box 12 “A Toast”, 1933
Box 12 “The Triple Cheer”, 1902
Box 12 “Twentieth Reunion March”, 1936
(Class of 1915)
Box 12 “Victory Bound”, 1936
Box 12 “We Come Back Every Year”, 1947
Box 12 “What do We Want? Touchdown”, 1927
Box 12 Non-Princeton Sheet Music, 1918
(sung by Princeton Quartet for American Expeditionary Force in France)
Box 12, Folder 1 Non-Princeton Sheet Music (miscellaneous), 1928, 1932, 1939, 1956, undated
Box 12, Folder 2
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